[ecrea] cfp: fifth annual screen industries in east-central europe conference

FIFTH ANNUAL
SCREEN INDUSTRIES
IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE CONFERENCE:
TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES
AND NEW SCREEN MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
20-21 November 2015, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia

Supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency, the Slovak
Audiovisual Fund, Masaryk University, the Czech Society of Film Studies,
and the Visegrad

The fifth annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe (SIECE)
conference considers how systemic institutional, legislative, and
technological changes within the screen industries have influenced
production, content, distribution, and reception. The conference
continues to provide a platform for the interdisciplinary examination of
media in this region while facilitating productive exchanges between
industry professionals and scholars. This year’s theme reflects the
conference location of Slovakia, a nation which saw its domestic cinema
come close to perishing in the 1990s, only to see it re-emerge as a
stable media hub after 2004, a time when the local industry needed to
respond to global technological developments such as digitization. The
conference theme is intended to foster a plurality of approaches to
thinking about how myriad transformative processes have shaped screen
media in the last 25 years. In so doing, the organizers hope to redirect
attention from considerations of the impact of denationalization toward
the application of broader international and historical perspectives.

Accordingly, potential topics for papers and panels may include but are
by no means limited to:
 systemic changes across the history of cinema and television
(including changes preceding denationalization that could be used for
comparative purposes) and their impact on production, distribution, and
marketing
 the changing status of national cinemas; geopolitical developments
 denationalization: the beginning of the end of an industrial system or
a new system for small nation film and television industries?
 redefining borders between amateur and professional production, and
between fiction, documentary, and animation
 new distribution channels (VOD, festivals) and multi-source financing
models (international co-production and grants, crowd funding etc...)
 public institutions as agents of systemic change
 technological changes and their impact on aesthetics
 new forms of reception

On 19 November, the conference will be preceded by a pre-conference
meeting in the Czech language and the Slovak language, comprising
workshops, presentations introducing research projects, and a panel
examining the impact of digitization on production, distribution, and
legislation.

The Fifth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference
investigates the historical and contemporary dimensions of the region’s
audiovisual media industries from all angles – local, transnational,
economic, cultural, social, and political – and through a broad range of
original scholarship delivered in the form of both conceptual papers and
empirical case-studies. Two selections of conference proceedings will be
published in English, one as a book-length volume, the other as a
special English-language issue of the Czech Film Studies journal
/Iluminace /(www.iluminace.cz <http://www.iluminace.cz>).

The 2015 SIECE Program Committee (consisting of the representatives of
the Institute for Theatre and Film Research of Slovak Academy of
Sciences, the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and of the Czech
Society of Film Studies) invites proposals for twenty-minute conference
papers and for panels of three to four speakers focusing on any topic
related to systemic changes in East-Central European screen industries.
Such panels should include a brief summarizing reflection of between
five and ten minutes delivered by an assigned respondent and intended to
facilitate discussion. Proposals for papers should include a title, an
abstract of up to 150 words, and between three and five key
bibliographical references, along with the presenter’s name, their
institutional affiliation, and a brief academic bio. Panel proposals
should include a panel title, a short description of up to 100 words on
the panel’s focus, and proposals of all the papers to be delivered
(including the information described above). Please submit proposals no
later than 30 August 2015 to (cinema.transformation /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(cinema.transformation /at/ gmail.com)>.
Conference attendance is free, and the conference will be conducted in
the English language (except for the pre-conference events taking place
on 19 November).

Conference Organizers: Jana Dudková, Mária Ferenčuhová, Katarína
Mišíková, Petr Szczepanik, Kateřina Svatoňová, and Petr Bílik, in
association with Institute of Theatre and Film Research of Slovak
Academy of Sciences (http://www.udfv.sav.sk/), Film and Television
Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
(http://ftf.vsmu.sk/) and the Czech Society of Film Studies (www.cefs.cz
<http://www.cefs.cz>).
Conference Management: Žofia Bosáková ((cinema.transformation /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(cinema.transformation /at/ gmail.com)>).



This conference is supported by the Slovak Research and Development
Agency under Contract No. APVV-0797-12.

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