[Commlist] HoMER Cfp - Integrating Traditions

HoMER 2020 CfP, Dublin, 25–27 May 2020

Hosted by Maynooth University

CfP – Integrating Traditions

Extended deadline for proposals, 29 November 2019

Letters of acceptance/rejection, 8 January 2020

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Shelley Stamp (Film + Digital Media, University of California, 
Santa Cruz)

Professor Joao Luiz Vieira (Cinema and Audiovisual Studies, Universidade 
Federal Fluminese, Niterói)

The HoMER Network invites submissions for 20-minute papers, as well as 
designated roundtables, panels, and workshops to be presented at the 
2020 conference, which will take place at Maynooth University on 25-27 
May 2020.

At HoMER 2019 in Nassau, the conference explored ways of developing a 
more theoretical and methodological grounding for New Cinema History 
research. Since emerging as a vibrant field of research in the early 
2000s, New Cinema History has sought to distinguish itself from Film 
History by ‘shift[ing] its focus away from the content of films’, in 
order to examine cinema as a ‘site of social and cultural exchange’ 
(Maltby 2011: 3). However, in recent years there have been calls to 
reconsider the significance of the film itself within New Cinema History 
research. For the Homer 2020 conference INTEGRATING TRADITIONS,we would 
like to continue answering that call: as cinema historians, we have 
traditionally drawn on frameworks and methodologies found in fields such 
as Social Geography, Economics, and Psychology, but how do we integrate 
these approaches with those of Film History and Film Studies more 
broadly? Furthermore, in order to become ‘methodologically more mature’ 
as a discipline, we must also reflect on how we approach comparative 
research as an essential part of our studies (Biltereyst and Meers 2016: 
25). Several empirical research projects have already used these methods 
within New Cinema History, comparing the cinema-going experience across 
cultural and geographical contexts; however, still lacking is the 
integration of productive methodologies from Film Studies.

The aim of HoMER 2020 is to investigate how the traditional approaches 
of Film Studies  – as well as those disciplines that have shaped NCH to 
date – can be productively integrated.

Possible topics and questions to explore might include (but are 
certainly not limited to):

 1.

    Film as text. What is the film’s appeal to audiences? When we
    investigate cinema’s popularity, how do we relate the film’s content
    to its performance at the box-office? The relationship between
    cinema memories, film text and social and geographical spaces.

 2.

    Genre and stardom and their relationship with programming and
    audiences. How can genre theory enhance our understanding of film
    reception and programming practices in specific cinemas?

 3.

    The changing role of gender, however defined, in distribution,
    exhibition and reception.

 4.

    Underexplored interdisciplinary possibilities or new
    historiographical paths. Are there potential connections with
    leisure or urban studies, for example? Can we use film as a source
    for investigating a historical period? Can we further engage
    approaches to the history of everyday life in our research?

 5.

    The novelty in New Cinema History. In what does its (continuing)
    novelty Iie? What are its methodologies and conceptual frameworks?

Presentations are welcome to critically explore the conference theme of 
INTEGRATING TRADITIONS through the interdisciplinary lens of academic 
Film and Cinema Studies.

Since it was first established in 2004, the HoMER network has been 
instrumental in bringing together researchers working in the New Cinema 
History tradition and providing opportunities to share knowledge and 
exchange ideas. In keeping with this, the 2019 HoMER conference featured 
a series of discussion sessions on specific topics. In light of the 
positive feedback on these sessions, HoMER 2020 will also feature 
discussion sessions on each day of the conference. During these 
sessions, participants will be able to debate research questions and 
methodologies, with the aim of sharing practices of their research, as 
well as advancing and developing new ideas in NCH approaches. Last year 
the three themes were: The geography of cinema; Cinema memories and the 
archives; Defining contemporary cinema.

Suggestions for new themes to discuss in HoMER 2020 are welcome.

The format will follow the successful one used last year: presentations 
of key areas (10 min) to the HoMER participants, followed by small group 
discussion (1 hour) on the key areas, and a final plenary discussion (20 
min). Possible key areas to explore might include (but are certainly not 
limited to): Cinema and Memory; the Economics and Business of Film; 
Programming and Film Popularity; Paratextual Analysis; the Digital 
Challenge; Distribution of Films; Impact of Research to Non-academic 
Audiences; Publishing New Cinema History Research: Traditional 
Approaches and the Alternatives.

Abstracts of 250 to 300 words, plus 3 or 4 bibliographic entries, and a 
50-word academic biography can be submitted via the HoMER 2020 Abstract 
Submission Form: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDmHvICIqmjlAB6gCoBfJ_yWJpgfOApAqFq-IW2RXUTAriKw/viewform?usp=sf_link

We also invite submissions for poster proposals, particularly from 
postgrad students (at all levels) and postdoctoral researchers. Accepted 
posters will be on display for the duration of the conference. Poster 
proposals can be submitted via the HoMER 2020 Poster Proposal Form: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJMAH_oHY4hI1Tv1ImVu-Qmv4J--ZDWXb4u3XyBHKo3KMN8g/viewform?usp=sf_link

For any queries regarding submission, please contact conference 
co-ordinators, Clara Pafort-Overduin ((c.pafort-overduin /at/ uu.nl) 
<mailto:(c.pafort-overduin /at/ uu.nl)>) and Daniela Treveri Gennari 
((dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk) <mailto:(dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk)>).

Postgraduate conference accommodation support:


        To help support postgraduate students that would like to travel
        to Maynooth for HoMER 2020, we have provisionally reserved a
        small number of single college rooms on campus
        <https://www.maynoothcampus.com/room/college-room/>.These single
        rooms have shared bathroom facilities and will be available to
        book for approximately €28 per night. As there are a limited
        number of rooms available, we would appreciate if you could
        indicate whether you would be potentially interested in availing
        of this accommodation option during the conference. To request a
        college room, please contact Sarah Culhane ((Sarah.Culhane /at/ mu.ie)
        <mailto:(Sarah.Culhane /at/ mu.ie)>) by Friday 6th December 2019. We
        realise that this deadline falls before the date for the issue
        of acceptance/rejection letters, but your advance expression of
        interest will help us to plan accordingly ahead of time. Thanks
        for your co-operation.

Programming Committee:

Clara Pafort Overduin

Daniela Treveri Gennari

Sarah Culhane

Denis Condon

Maya Nedyalkova

Åsa Jernudd

Karina Aveyard

Sam Manning

Kata Szita

Silvia Dibeltulo


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