[ecrea] cfp Connectivity in the History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception

Connectivity in the History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception

HoMER@NECS Conference 2016, Potsdam, Germany, 26–30 July 2016
Hosted by ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften 
(Brandenburg Center for Media Studies), Potsdam, Germany 
(zem-brandenburg.de)
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2016

Following two consecutive joint conferences in Prague (2013) and Milan 
(2014), HoMER (http://homernetwork.org) is teaming up with NECS 
(http://necs.org/) again to offer a strand of panels at the 2016 NECS 
conference in Potsdam, Germany. Similar to previous such events this 
will include a pre-conference day with HoMER keynote speakers and 
workshops (details tbc). NECS (Network for European Cinema Studies) is a 
dynamic forum supporting researchers working on film and media theory, 
practice and history. Bringing together cinema historians from all over 
the world, HoMER (History of Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception) is 
an international network interested in understanding the phenomena of 
cinema and cinema-going from a multidisciplinary perspective. One of 
HoMER’s main purposes is to facilitate connections between acclaimed and 
aspiring researchers and the multitude of academic disciplines they 
represent. After last year’s conference in Glasgow mapped out the 
territory for cinema historians by asking ‘What is Cinema History?’ 
this year’s Call for Papers focuses on connectivity. Cinema as a social 
and cultural institution has enabled connectivity between people, social 
groups, industries, media, etc. in many different ways in the past and 
we welcome papers and panels that accentuate this aspect of cinema 
history. We seek submissions of individual papers or pre-constituted 
panel proposals from existing HoMER members and anyone interested in 
collaborative and comparative research into historical and contemporary 
film exhibition, distribution and experience.

Possible topics for paper proposals are:
•	Comparative perspectives: connecting national, regional and local 
research and databases on exhibition and cinema-going
•	Theoretical perspectives: film exhibition, cinema-going and film 
experience in relation to theories of actor-networks, imperialism, 
post-colonialism, diaspora, cinema and modernity, etc.
•	Contrasting perspectives: tensions between commercial and ideological 
film exhibition, urban and rural cinemas, film distribution and 
exhibition in provinces and regions, the global nature of the film 
industry and the local experience of cinema-going, etc.
•	Institutional perspectives: geographical location and programming 
trends, the "top down" forces of industry, commerce and ideology vs. 
"bottom up" forces of experience, the practices of distribution 
networks, cinema chains and film exhibition circuits, etc.
•	Social and spatial perspectives: comparative audience experiences in 
urban and rural contexts, contesting concepts of public and private 
space in media experience, cinema's metropolitan modernity vs. cinema’s 
ability to connect communities in less urbanized and rural areas
•	Diachronic perspectives: the rise of cinemas in rural and urban 
environments, the boom of cinema-going, the decay and subsequent closure 
of provincial and neighbourhood cinemas, the rise of multiplexes, etc.

Please submit abstracts of individual papers and pre-constituted panels 
or workshops of no more than 300 words with a biographical note of no 
more than 100 words to (coord /at/ homernetwork.org). For panels, please send 
abstracts together with a 200-word note on the title and topic of the 
panel or workshop.
You will be notified of the acceptance or decline of your proposal by 
the beginning of April 2016. Pease note, if you are accepted and would 
like to register for the conference, you will be asked to become a 
member of NECS and pay the membership fee of 30 Euro by the 30th April 2016.

HoMER@NECS Team 2016: Julia Bohlmann, Annemone Ligensa, Lies Van de 
Vijver, Maria Velez-Serna



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