[ecrea] CFP The Moving Form of Film: Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method

Call for Papers

We welcome submissions for the upcoming conference:

THE MOVING FORM OF FILM:

EXPLORING INTERMEDIALITY AS A HISTORIOGRAPHIC METHOD

6-8 November 2017, University of Reading, UK

As part of the AHRC/FAPESP-funded IntermIdia Project

(www.reading.ac.uk/intermidia), led by investigators

from the University of Reading (UoR), UK, and the Federal

University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, this international

conference seeks to invite discussion of intermediality as a

historiographic method.

Conference Convenor: Prof Lúcia Nagib

UoR Investigators: Prof Lúcia Nagib (PI); Alison Butler

(Co-I); Prof John Gibbs (Co-I); Dr Lisa Purse (Co-I); Dr Albert

Elduque (PDRA); Dr Stefan Solomon (PDRA).

UFSCar Investigators: Dr Luciana Corrêa de Araújo (PI);

Dr Flávia Cesarino Costa (Co-I); Dr Samuel Paiva (Co-I); Dr

Suzana Reck Miranda (Co-I); Dr Margarida Adamatti (PDRA).

Administrator: Richard McKay.

Confirmed Guest Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

- Alain Badiou – French philosopher, former Chair of

Philosophy, Université de Paris VIII

- Robert Stam – University Professor of Cinema Studies,

New York University

- Ismail Xavier – Professor of Film Studies, University of

São Paulo

Plenary Speakers:

- Ágnes Pethő – Professor of Film Studies,

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca

- Lisa Shaw – Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies,

University of Liverpool

 From its birth, the film medium has fuelled debates around its

possible specificity versus its obvious connections with other

arts and media. In recent days, with the advent of digital

technologies that trigger and depend on media convergence, it has

become indisputable that film is inherently intermedial, giving

scope for reconsidering film history in light of the

medium’s moving, all- encompassing form. As Alain Badiou

summarises, it is impossible to think cinema outside of a general

space made of its connections to the other arts. He says:

‘Cinema is the seventh art in a very particular sense. It

does not add itself to the other six while remaining on the same

level as them. Rather, it implies them – cinema is the

“plus-one” of the arts. It operates on the other

arts, using them as its starting point, in a movement that

subtracts them from themselves’ (2005: 79). This

conference will build on such an understanding by investigating

the ways in which intermediality, rather than obstructing,

enhances film’s artistic endeavour. More pointedly, it

will ask: how can intermediality help us to understand the

history of cinema as a whole?

Broadly speaking, ‘intermediality’ refers to the

interbreeding of artistic and technical medial forms. The uses of

the term hark back to the 1960s and Higgins (1966; 1981), who

applied it to an array of countercultural artistic phenomena of

the time. Through the years, the concept has evolved to encompass

an ‘inflation’ of definitions (Pethö 2010),

which concur in the celebration of ‘hybridisation’,

‘transnationalism’,

‘multiculturalism’ and cross-fertilisations of all

sorts. As for cinema, intermediality has gained prominence among

other more established approaches, such as comparative,

intertextual, adaptation and genre-based studies, for its wider

premise that keeps the interrogation into the properties of the

medium constantly on the critic’s horizon (Rajewsky 2010).

This conference will look at medial interstices, intercultural

encounters and creative clashes where the specificities of cinema

are questioned and re-fertilised into new forms. Its ultimate aim

will be to stimulate an overarching exploration of and theorising

on the uses of intermediality as a historiographic method.

We welcome proposals which explore the following issues, with

particular emphasis on histories and historiographies of cinema

and the film medium:

* Intermediality and historiography;

* Intermediality and the history(ies) of cinema

* Intermedial and intercultural encounters;

* Intermediality as hybridity;

* National cinema(s) and intermediality;

* Experimental cinema and intermediality;

* Early Cinema and intermediality;

* Multi-mediality in New Cinemas;

* Border-crossings in genres and genders;

* Intermediality and new technologies;

* Comparative medial approaches across regional, national and

transnational cinemas.

Submission Guidelines

All proposals should be on subjects relevant to the objectives of

the conference, as described above. Proposals must be submitted

in English. Please submit your title, abstract (max. 300 words),

short bio (max. 150 words), e-mail address and institutional

affiliation.

Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to

(intermidia /at/ reading.ac.uk) . Deadline for submissions is Friday 30 June 
2017. Please use the

same e-mail address for general information.

Notification of accepted proposals will be given by Monday 31

July 2017.

Details of the registration fee, the conference programme, and

the registration process will be announced shortly thereafter on

the IntermIdia Project website:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/

Support: AHRC, FAPESP, University of Reading.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds

world-class, independent researchers in a wide range of subjects:

ancient history, modern dance, archaeology, digital content,

philosophy, English literature, design, the creative and

performing arts, and much more. This financial year the AHRC

will spend approximately £98m to fund research and

postgraduate training in collaboration with a number of partners.

The quality and range of research supported by this investment of

public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but

also contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further

information on the AHRC, please go to: www.ahrc.ac.uk

Founded in 1962, the São Paulo State Research Foundation

(FAPESP) is one of Brazil’s most important science and

technology funding agencies. Maintained by the transfer of 1% of

the state’s tax revenue, FAPESP selects and supports

research projects submitted by scientists affiliated with higher

education and research institutions in São Paulo State in all

knowledge areas. Projects are selected by peer review based on

assessments by Brazilian and foreign researchers not associated

with FAPESP. For more information go to: www.fapesp.br/en

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