[ecrea] Eisenstein Symposium Prato 21 22 June 2018

*Eisenstein for the Twenty-first Century*

*21-22 June 2018, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy***

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Marking the 120^th anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein’s birth, this 
international symposium will examine the legacy of the revolutionary 
Russian director and film theorist and his continuing relevance to 
contemporary screen studies. Over the last two decades, our 
understanding of Eisenstein’s oeuvre and aimshas been reshaped by 
publications and translations of his previously unpublished major 
theoretical writings (/Metod, /Musei Kino, 2002; /Notes for a General 
History of Cinema/, Amsterdam University Press, 2016; /The Primal 
Phenomenon: Art/, Potemkin Press, 2017), while critical engagement with 
his creative work has been expanded through exhibitions of his drawings 
and unfinished film projects. New archival research has demonstrated the 
extent of Eisenstein’s interdisciplinary work and his informal networks 
of collaborations with artists and scholars from around the world.


This symposium, supported by the Australian Research Council and the 
Arts Faculty and School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash 
University, offers scholars a forum in which to assess and chart new 
directions for research on Eisenstein’s heritage in the light of the 
current theoretical challenges and technological advances in film studies.

The symposium program will include: a round-table with Naum Kleiman 
(Moscow); keynote papers by Professor Ian Christie (London), Professor 
Joan Neuberger (Austin), Professor Antonio Somaini (Paris); and an 
audio-visual presentation by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López  
(Vilassar de Mar).

We invite proposals for papers and audio-visual presentations that 
explore Eisenstein’s work from any of the following perspectives:

New publications and translations of Eisenstein’s texts

New perspectives on Eisenstein’s films

Eisenstein and the visual arts

Eisenstein, philosophy and politics

Eisenstein’s writings and media archaeology

Eisenstein’s legacy and new approaches to montage

Eisenstein, cinema and the brain: affect, cognition, embodied perception

Gender and sexuality in Eisenstein’s writings, films and drawings

Einstein’s theory-and-practice and intermediality

Eisenstein, new media and the rise of the audio-visual essay

Mythologizing Eisenstein: Eisenstein as a subject of biopics

Eisenstein’s circle: formal and informal networks of collaborations

Please send an abstract of 200-250 words with a brief biographical note 
(150 words) to the symposium convenor, Dr. Julia Vassilieva 
((julia.vassilieva /at/ monash.edu) <mailto:(julia.vassilieva /at/ monash.edu)>), *by 
the 1^st of January, 2018.*

Prato is close to several of Europe’s most significant cities and 
esteemed institutions – thirty minutes from Florence and the European 
University Institute in Fiesole, one hour from Bologna – home to 
Europe’s oldest university, two hours from Rome, and three hours from 
Milan. La Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna traditionally runs “Il Cinema 
Ritrovato” festival in the last week of June. For more information on 
Monash University Prato Centre please see: http://monash.it/


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