[Commlist] Call for papers: 2nd Symposium of the Irish Audiences Network

Call for papers: 2nd Symposium of the Irish Audiences Network

“Exploring cinema-going past and present: memory, cultures, place”

Date: April 5, 2019
Venue: Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork

The recently established Irish Audiences Research Network provides a 
forum for the dissemination of research in the area of audience studies 
(encompassing all media) and aims to foster partnerships between 
individuals and institutions. The Department of Media Studies at 
Maynooth University hosted our inaugural symposium in December 2018 and 
we now invite proposals for papers for our second symposium, which will 
be held at University College Cork on April 5th2019. This one-day 
symposium will specifically focus on research into the area of 
cinema-going experiences and histories of cinema (locations; sites) in 
any context (not limited to Ireland).

We are delighted to welcome presentations by:
 – Dr. Daniela Treveri Gennari (Oxford Brookes University and 
Coordinator of the HoMER research network; co-editor of the recent 
collection, Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context, 
Palgrave, 2018)

– Mr. Jamie Terrill (PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University, working on 
an AHRC project on cinemas in rural Wales)

We invite papers that engage with and showcase your research on any or 
all of the following topics:

•     Cinema sites (histories of individual cinemas/ theatres)
•     Case studies of cinema/cinema-going in rural communities
•     Case studies of cinema/cinema-going in cities/urban spaces
•     Cinema-going and the State
•     Private /Public memory & histories
•     Memory and nostalgia
•     Methodological approaches and research challenges
•     Oral histories: approaches and challenges
•     Innovations in research dissemination
•     New directions in cinema-going/exhibition spaces

Abstracts should be 200 words and should be submitted on or before 
February 18th to symposium organisers, Daniel O’Connell and Gwenda Young 
(University College Cork), at (mediaaudiencestudies /at/ gmail.com)

Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in duration (to include clips)

Symposium Fee:
-        20euro (waged; to include tea/coffee; light lunch)
-        15euro (unwaged/student; to include tea/coffee; light lunch)

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