[ecrea] CFP: (Post-)Conflict Cinema: Remembering Out-breaks and In-tensions

*Call for Papers

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CECC – The Research Centre for Communication and Culture presents:

*(Post-)Conflict Cinema: Remembering Out-breaks and In-tensions*

*IV International CECC Conference on Culture and Conflict*

December 5-6, 2011

School of Human Sciences – Catholic University of Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal

*Deadline for submissions: July 30 2011*

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The history of the 20th and 21st centuries merges with the history of 
cinema and its latest developments. On the one hand, the emergence of 
cinema is associated with the idea of a democratic art form. Never 
before had an artistic manifestation reached and affected so many people 
at the same time. On the other hand, besides constituting one of the 
privileged cultural products through which past and current conflicts 
are represented and thoroughly examined, cinema is a medial construction 
that serves as a ‘stage’ that interrogates the very act of 
representation, since it also reflects the problems and conflicts 
experienced in the context of filmic production. Cinema and conflict 
went hand in hand from the very beginning. Soon after the appearance of 
the cinematograph, a short film on the war in Cuba, a war that would 
lead to the island’s independence, was shown to the public in 1898. In 
1915 Griffith famously portrayed a war-torn American society during the 
Civil War in Birth of a Nation, and raised a huge controversy on the 
issue of racism.

Keeping in mind the revolutionary aesthetic developments and the 
consolidation of cinema as a multidimensional art form in the 20th 
century and at the beginning of the new millennium, it is important to 
discuss how and to what extent new cinematographies inspired by the 
examination of issues of memory and oblivion experienced in the last 
century respond to the challenges imposed by 21st-century conflicts 
(terrorism, economic and social crises, Islamophobia, various forms of 
racism, civil wars, exploitation of natural resources, among others).

With a view to discussing the dynamic process of conflict and 
post-conflict situations, this international conference seeks to analyze 
how 20th and 21st-century (post-)conflict cinema addresses and 
(re)mediates the following issues:

   * Post-memory, Post-Conflict and New Cinema
   * Preserving/Rebuilding cultural heritage
   * Reimagining the landscape of the self after conflicts
   * Gender and reconstruction in post-conflict societies
   * Cultural identities in post-conflict contexts
   * Conciliation, punishment and the challenge of democracy
   * Human rights in war-torn societies
   * Ethics and discourses of legitimation in post-conflict situations
   * Film and the Pain of others
   * Globalization and post-conflict societies
   * Translating the other and the self in times of conflict
   * Post-Conflict Cinema in Post-Colonial Contexts

The Conference’s working languages are *Portuguese *and *English*.

Please send the Organizing Committee 300-words abstracts for 20-minute 
papers, as well as a brief biographical note (circa 100 words), to 
(postconflictcinema /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(postconflictcinema /at/ gmail.com)> by 
*July 30, 2011*. Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional 
affiliation, and contact details.

Notification of acceptance will be given by *September 15, 2011*.


*Confirmed Keynote Speakers:*

Samuel Maoz (director of /Lebanon/)

João Canijo (director of /Fantasia Lusitana/)

Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam)

Isabel Capeloa Gil (Catholic University of Portugal)


*Scientific Committee**:*

Isabel Capeloa Gil

Adriana Martins

Carlos Capucho

Alexandra Lopes


*Organizing Committee**:*

Adriana Martins

Carlos Capucho

Alexandra Lopes

Mónica Dias

Fabíola Maurício

Daniela Agostinho


For more information please visit our website at 
*www.postconflictcinema.wordpress.com 
<http://www.postconflictcinema.wordpress.com>* or contact us at 
*(postconflictcinema /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(postconflictcinema /at/ gmail.com)>*

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