[Commlist] CfP: Film Festivals - Borders, Identities, Solidarities

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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*Symposium*

*Film Festivals: Borders, Identities, Solidarities*

*Ca’ Foscari **University **of Venice*

*November 4–6, 2024*

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This symposium aims to explore how the issues of *borders*, 
*identities* and *solidarities* have been tackled by and through *film 
festivals*. As a repetitive practice happening in regular intervals and 
at the same place, film festivals operate as ‘places of memory’ of a 
particular kind (Nora, 1984 [1997] 
<https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Quarto/Les-Lieux-de-memoire>). 
As such, they provide an institutional framework for the *cultural 
memories *they preserve and produce through their programmes. By the 
default of cultural memory creation (Assmann, 1995 
<https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/classes/201/articles/95AssmannCollMemNGC.pdf>), 
their influence becomes long-term and wide encompassing, moving far 
beyond from their actual time and place. In addition, thanks to the 
engagement of diverse festival actors (journalists, critics, industry 
representatives, politicians, etc.) the narratives that they create 
reach diverse categories of society, not limited to those present at the 
screening. The influence created in such a way becomes especially 
important in the times of *political and military conflicts *and* social 
turbulences*, when not only various kinds of liberties, but also 
people’s lives, can be threatened. With this in mind, this symposium 
aims to bring together scholars working on *diverse aspects of film 
festival studies* to discuss interrelations between film festivals and 
the questions of borders, identities and solidarities. In the current 
context of political and social upheavals, and social movements for 
civil rights, the symposium will explore the capacity of film festivals 
to operate not simply as spaces for cinematic representation related to 
borders and identities, but how they have (or may become) vehicles for 
forging solidarities, past, present and future.

We welcome submissions in the following (non-exhaustive) *topic areas*:

-Film festivals and political propaganda

-Film festivals as places for expression of solidarity

-Film festivals, cultural memory and national identity

-Film festivals and gender identity

-Definitions of film festivals’ identity

-Borderland film festivals

-Borders and boundaries in film festival programmes

Submissions may be individual or for panels of three papers. We are 
inviting proposals from participants from diverse ranges of career 
levels, from doctoral students to established scholars.

Please *submit* your proposals – 250-word abstracts for 20-minute 
presentations – to *(cba.trieste.symposium /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(cba.trieste.symposium /at/ gmail.com)> by July 5, 2024*. Notifications 
of acceptance will be sent by August 15, 2024.

The symposium is organized by Dr Dunja Jelenkovic and Prof. Marco Dalla 
Gassa in the framework of the H2020 MSCA project *CBA TRIESTE 
<https://pric.unive.it/projects/cbatrieste/home>* (*The Cinematic Battle 
for the Adriatic: Films, Frontiers, and the Trieste Crisis*) which has 
received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 researchand 
innovation programme, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 
No. 101020692 (MSCA-IF-EF).

For any *inquiries*, please contact *(dunja.jelenkovic /at/ unive.it) 
<mailto:(dunja.jelenkovic /at/ unive.it)>* (please put “CBA TRIESTE Symposium“ 
as the email subject).

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