[ecrea] Call For Proposals PhD Workshop - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

The PhD Program in Media Research (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and 
the PhD Program in Communication (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón) are 
glad to announce an *international PhD Workshop for predoctoral 
researchers on Communication*.

The PhD workshop will take place the *18th of October, from 10 AM to 2 
PM*, and will consist on the presentation of the PhD project of the 
participants in the presence of two international experts on 
Communication: *Dr. Philippe Meers* (full professor of Film and Media 
Studies at the University of Antwerp) and *Dr. Zrinjka Peruško* (full 
professor of media sociology and mass communication at the Faculty of 
Political Science, University of Zagreb, and Founder Chair of its Centre 
for Media and Communication Research).

This workshop is organized within the context of the International 
Seminar 'Global Emergency of Commercial Television and Public Service 
Challenges in Europe' and the International Conference 'Digital 
Imaginaries of the South: Stories of Belonging and Uprooting in Hispanic 
Cinema' (Universidad Carlos III from the 17th to the 20th of October, 2017).

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

PhD WORKSHOP - 18th of October 2017

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation

Getafe Campus

HOSTED BY:

-PhD Program in Media Research (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

-PhD Program in Communication (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón).

ORGANIZED WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF:

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR - Global Emergency of Commercial Television and 
Public Service Challenges in Europe (October 17-18, 2017) -Spanish 
Government Funded Research Project "Cinema & television in Spain 
1986-1995: modernity and the emergence of global culture" 
(CSO2016-78354-P). Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - Digital Imaginaries of the South: Stories of 
Belonging and Uprooting in Hispanic Cinema (October 18-20, 2017) - 
Spanish Government Funded Research Project "Transnational relations in 
Spanish-American digital cinema: the cases of Spain, Mexico and 
Argentina" (CSO2014-52750-P). Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

COLLABORATORS:

-Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication (Universidad 
Carlos III de Madrid/ UC3M).

-Tecmerin (UC3M Research Group).

Proposals are welcomed from PhD students of Communication to participate 
in this PhD Workshop. This one-day PhD Workshop is organized within the 
context of the International Seminar Global Emergency of Commercial 
Television and Public Service Challenges in Europe and the International 
Conference Digital Imaginaries of the South: Stories of Belonging and 
Uprooting in Hispanic Cinema.

WORKSHOP TEACHERS:

PROFESSOR PHILIPPE MEERS

             Philippe Meers is full professor of Film and Media Studies 
at the University of Antwerp. He is chair of the Visual and Digital 
Cultures Research Center (ViDi), and chair of the Center for Mexican 
Studies at the University of  Antwerp. He published about cinema culture 
in The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Screen and in Hollywood 
Abroad (BFI, 2004); The Contemporary Hollywood Reader (Routledge, 2009). 
He edited, with Richard Maltby y Daniel Biltereyst, Explorations in New 
Cinema History. Approaches and Case Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and 
Audiences, Cinema and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema 
History (Routledge, 2012). He was founding chair of the Film Studies 
section of the European Communication Research and Education Association 
(ECREA), founding member of the European Network for Cinema and Media 
Studies (NECS), and of the Network on History of Movie-going, 
Exhibition, and Reception (HoMER). Outside academia, he is a member of 
the board of directors of the cultural  (audiovisual) organisations 
Vlaamse Dienst voor Film cultuur VDFC, Aifoon, C.H.I.P.S.,  Laika and 
Fonds Raoul Servais.

             Professor Meers’ workshop will be held in Spanish and 
English, as requested by students.

PROFESSOR ZRINJKA PERUŠKO

             Zrinjka PeruSko is full professor of media sociology and 
mass communication at the Faculty of Political Science, University of 
Zagreb, and Founder Chair of its Centre for Media and Communication 
Research. Also, she is Director of the Media and Politics Stream in the 
Doctoral Program in Political Science at the University of Zagreb, and 
Founder Co-director of the international post-graduate course 
"Comparative Media Systems" at the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik. In 
addition to five authored/ edited books, and book chapters published 
internationally, her work appears in International Journal of 
Communication, Central European Journal of Communication, Medialni 
studia (Media studies), View - Journal of European Television, History & 
Culture, East European Politics and Societies, Medijska istraživanja 
(Media research), among others. Professor Peruško is presently serving 
as Chair of the ECREA Central and East-European (CEE) Network. She is 
also a Member of the Committee for the Steve Chaffee Career Achievement 
Award (2016, 2017) of the International Communication Association (ICA).

             Professor Perusko’s workshop will be held in English.

FOCUS AND THEMES

PhD workshop is aimed at researchers who work on topics related to 
themes analyzed both in the Seminar and in the Congress, which are 
discussed below:

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR - GLOBAL EMERGENCY OF

COMMERCIAL TELEVISION AND PUBLIC SERVICE CHALLENGES IN EUROPE

During the last two decades of the last century, private and commercial 
television were deployed and developed in many European countries. 
Although there had been pioneering experiences almost since World War 
II, it is then when the development of new technologies and the 
extension of a post-industrial consumer society popularize the phenomenon.

New actors will modify the production systems, but also the forms of 
consumption and the relationship of the viewers with the audiovisual 
texts. Also, if transnational globalization is one of the defining 
processes of the period, the presence of international operators will 
force the redefinition of theoretical frameworks for television, which 
will no longer be considered an essentially national phenomenon. 
Therefore, the media landscape will be ruled by national legislation 
and, in addition, by a supranational jurisprudence from the European 
Economic Community. The best example of the new situation will be 
Television without Frontiers Directive passed in 1989.

The new situation will ask for a reflection and redefinition of both the 
concept of public service and the raison d'être and obligations of 
public television, often in direct conflict with its new competitors. 
New issues will arise, such as profitability, audience, or quality content.

International Seminar "Global Emergency of Commercial Television and 
Public Service Challenges in Europe" follows the lines stated in the 
research project "Cinema and television in Spain 1986-1995: modernity 
and emergence of global culture". In doing so, it proposes to study and 
reflect on how the implementation of private television in different 
countries has occurred and how it has conditioned the current television.

Further information: tecmerin.es/seminariotvglobal 
<http://tecmerin.es/seminariotvglobal>


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - DIGITAL IMAGINARIES OF THE SOUTH: STORIES OF 
BELONGING AND UPROOTING IN HISPANIC CINEMAS

Over the past twenty years, digital technology has become the standard 
in the film production, circulation, and consumption processes. Within 
this context, Hispanic cinemas have undergone deep changes, both within 
the countries with an established cinematic tradition, as well as in 
those that, due to several reasons, had not developed a robust 
cinematography throughout the 20th century. The analogue paradigm became 
deeply contested and a new digital framework, which was widely discussed 
by institutions, film critics, and academics, emerged. This moment 
coincides with the widespread generalization of national and 
transnational neoliberal policies that, far from backing diversity, have 
increased the gap between those “connected” and those “disconnected” (to 
draw upon Néstor García Canclini’s term); a gap also experienced by 
those that, even if connected, still occupy subaltern positions.

The speeding of these processes has resulted in an increase of mobility, 
at work both in the geographical displacement of film professionals and 
in the emergence of new narratives models that deal with questions of 
belonging and uprooting, springing precisely from these experiences of 
displacement. The cinemas of the Global South, and, most specifically, 
Hispanic cinemas, have actively taken part in these processes, 
ultimately playing a relevant role in terms of narrative and aesthetic 
models, and the production, circulation and consumption of film.

Following the main research axes of the R+D project “Transnational 
relations in Hispanic digital cinemas: the axes of Spain, Mexico, and 
Argentina” (CSO2014-52750- P), the International Conference Digital 
Imaginaries of the South: Stories of Belonging and Uprooting in Hispanic 
Cinemas welcomes proposals across the following lines of inquiry: 
representation of migrations, displacements, exile, and diaspora; 
reconfiguration of the regional, national, and transnational Hispanic 
interactions within the new century; Public discourses and film policies 
within the region; Hybridization and identity in the narratives on 
colonization, decolonization, and revolutionary processes; Activism and 
digital praxis; Film cultures and cinephilia: festivals, publications, 
and digital platforms; Historiographic, theoretical, and methodological 
problems of so-called Hispanic, Iberian, and Latin American cinemas 
americanos.

For further information: www.uc3m.es/atcinema <http://www.uc3m.es/atcinema>


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES / APPLICATION

Proposals are welcomed from PhD students of Communication. Submissions 
should provide a title and an abstract of 800-1000 words including a 
theoretical framework and an outline of the planned methodology. 
Applications must be sent before the 30th of September in a PDF or DOC 
format to (jcerdan /at/ hum.uc3m.es) <mailto:(jcerdan /at/ hum.uc3m.es)>.

             Selection will be based on proximity with the main themes 
of the Seminar or the Congress. The notification of the acceptance will 
be sent by the 3rd of October, 2017.

             Each workshop teacher will work and comment a maximum of 
four proposals during the morning of the 18th of October (from 10 AM to 
2 PM). Each participant will present her/his proposal in 15-20 minutes, 
in Spanish or English for Professor Meers and only English for Professor 
Perusko.

Further information: (jcerdan /at/ hum.uc3m.es) <mailto:(jcerdan /at/ hum.uc3m.es)> or 
http://tecmerin.es/talleresdoctorado.

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