[Commlist] Call for Proposals for the 2024 Film-Philosophy Conference, Espinho, Portugal, 1-3 July 2024

Call for Proposals starts:-


15^th  edition of the Film-Philosophy Conference

Espinho, Portugal

1-3 July 2024 (with welcome event on 30 June 2024)

In person

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Catherine Constable (University of Warwick) - ‘The Sublime and 
Contemporary Science Fiction Film’

João Mário Grilo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - 'The description 
of film direction as a philosophical operation: the case of Mizoguchi’s 
gendai-geki'

Homay King (Bryn Mawr College) - 'Enigma, Opacity: Race, Psychoanalysis, 
and the Image according to Laplanche and Glissant'

TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED

The call for this conference is open, in that there is no expected 
single theme or set of themes, although we shall certainly encourage 
speakers to propose papers on topics that push at the boundaries 
of film-philosophy, be that by looking at non-western films 
and/or film thinkers, or that are engaged in 
'decolonial' film-philosophical work in some respect. And of course we 
welcome speakers from non-western (or, if you prefer, non-northern) 
backgrounds.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Scholars, both established and emerging, are invited to submit proposals 
for the conference. These will generally take the form of individual 
papers – but we are open to video-essays and panel proposals, as well as 
proposals for workshops and roundtables with multiple speakers. Please 
contact the conference organisers before submitting panel or 
roundtable/workshop proposals.

Proposals (including titles and abstracts) of up to 500 words should be 
submitted to (filmphilosophy2024 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(filmphilosophy2024 /at/ gmail.com)>. The deadline for the proposals is 
28 February 2024, with accepted speakers being notified by the end of 
March 2024.

Proposals will be blind peer-reviewed and so there is no need at present 
to submit a biography (although a name and contact details are 
necessary). Biographies will only be requested upon acceptance into the 
conference.

CONFERENCE FEE

The conference fee will be set in the next few weeks, and will be 
included in forthcoming announcements about the conference. The 
conference does not provide funding for presenters to attend (aside from 
keynote speakers).

FEST FILM FESTIVAL

This year’s Film-Philosophy Conference is held primarily in partnership 
with the FEST Film Festival, which will be running just ahead of 
the Film-Philosophy Conference, from 24 June to 1 July, 2024. Delegates 
may want to consider attending both events. The festival's website is 
here: https://site.fest.pt/en/ <https://site.fest.pt/en/>.

ESPINHO

Espinho is a beautiful seaside town just south of Porto, which is home 
to the nearest airport. In Antonio Tabucchi's /Pereira Maintains/, the 
narrator describes Espinho as "a classy beach with a swimming-pool and 
casino, I often used to have a swim there and then a game of billiards, 
there was a first-rate billiard room, and that’s where I and my fiancée 
whom I later married used to go… that was a wonderful time in my life, 
and maybe I dream about it because it gives me pleasure to dream about 
it." We can't guarantee billiards, but the beach, swimming pool and, for 
those interested in such things, the casino will all be there.

LANGUAGE

The conference will be held in English.

ORGANISING INSTITUTIONS

University of British Columbia

FEST Film Festival, Espinho

IFILNOVA

Universidade de Coimbra

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE FILM-PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

2023: Chapman University, USA

2022: Middlesex University, UK (online)

2021: East Tennessee State University, USA (online)

2019: University of Brighton, UK

2018: University of Gothenburg, Sweden

2017: Lancaster University, UK

2016: University of Edinburgh, UK

2015: University of Oxford, UK

2014: University of Glasgow, UK

2013: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012: Kings College, London, Kingston University, Queen Mary University 
of London, UK

2011: Liverpool John Moores University, UK

2010: University of Warwick, UK

2009: University of Dundee, UK


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