[ecrea] cfp: European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History

CALL FOR PAPERS
A Two-Day International Conference

European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings:
Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History

Conference date: Friday 13th and Saturday 14th November 2015
Venue: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Organised by: ECREA Film Studies Section
Deadline for abstracts: 4 May 2015
Conference website: europeancinemainterculturalmeetings.wordpress.com

More radically than ever before, European countries – and even the idea 
of the continent – are being shaped by international relationships and 
pressures, and by meetings and clashes of cultures, identities and 
traditions. Simultaneously, its cinemas are undergoing changes in many 
respects, in terms of genres and aesthetics as well as of production and 
distribution. On the one hand, the notion of transnationalism, that has 
been used for some time to capture these changes and move beyond 
national frameworks for the study of film, is currently being extended 
to account for an increasingly cosmopolitan, global imagination that is 
reflected in contemporary European lifestyles, as well as in the 
aesthetics of contemporary European cinemas. On the other hand, film 
production and distribution often transcend national boundaries, and so 
do the new digital platforms for film dissemination and consumption, 
thus creating new market configurations as well as new transnational 
audiences. The growing impact of mobile social media contributes to 
forming an increasingly participatory, networked transnational 
spectatorship. EU funding for the cinema is at once adapting to and 
shaping these trends, as does contemporary EU policy on film and the media.
The objective of this conference is to address and discuss the 
implications of both novel and past intercultural meetings for European 
cinemas and their consequences on its history, identity and evolution 
through discourses of aesthetics, politics and industry.

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Daniela Berghahn, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor William Higbee, University of Exeter

 
Abstracts are invited on topics related to European Cinema, 
Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History, 
including but not limited to:

➢	Intercultural Meetings on European Screens
➢	National Cinemas and Diaspora
➢	Global Cinema in Europe, European Cinemas in the Global Market
➢	Cosmopolitanism and Film
➢	Political Cinema, Politics of Cinema
➢	Conflict, Violence, Reconciliation
➢	Fortress Europe, Borders and Border-crossing
➢	Culture and Identity of Contemporary European Cinema
➢	European Film Festivals and Politics
➢	European Film Financing and Policy
➢	The Changing Face of European Co-production
➢	Digital Platforms, Interconnected Audiences

Abstract Submission: Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) along 
with key references, institutional affiliation and a short bio (max 150 
words) or a panel proposal, including a panel presentation (max 300 
words) along with (no more than four) individual abstracts.

Submission Deadline: May 4th 2015. Please send your abstract/panel 
proposals to Helle Kannik Haastrup: (jxc817 /at/ hum.ku.dk).

Conference Details: The Conference is hosted by the Department of Nordic 
Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Registration: 50 Euros (ECREA membership is not required).

Contact Information:
Helle Kannik Haastrup: (jxc817 /at/ hum.ku.dk) University of Copenhagen
Anders Marklund: (anders.marklund /at/ litt.lu.se) University of Lund
Laura Rascaroli: (l.rascaroli /at/ ucc.ie) University College Cork

Conference website: 
https://europeancinemainterculturalmeetings.wordpress.com/



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