[Commlist] Zoom conference Narrative, Media and Cognition VI

“RECONFIGURATIONS: New narrative challenges in moving images”

Hosted by the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Portugal.
Deadline for proposal submission: 12 Abril 2021

The 6th edition of the conference Narrative, Media and Cognition aims to 
combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the 
artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that 
produces it and gives it meaning. The 2021 edition of the conference is 
hosted by the Theatre and Film School of the Lisbon Polytechnic 
Institute, in Portugal, in association with the WG of the Audiovisual 
Narratives of AIM - The Moving Image Association in Portugal. It will 
take place on the 14th and 16th of October 2021, via Zoom. Upon entering 
a new decade of the twenty first century the artistic landscape is 
increasingly hybrid and veering from the norms; a growing blend of 
forms, contents and genres is taking place. Therefore, it is imperative 
to reflect on the interrelation of the three main topics of the 
conference – narrative, media/arts, and cognition – and to contribute 
with academic theorization that allows for a broadening of reflection 
upon the nature and role of narrative as the binding element of a new 
audiovisual praxis. In this sense, the current edition of the conference 
focuses on the multiple challenges of artistic contemporaneity, seeking 
to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue. There will be a publication with 
selected, peer-reviewed articles issuing from this conference.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:  •	Complex, 
non-linear and fragmentary narrative structures. •	Self-reflexivity, 
metalepsis, ekphrasis, embedding.  •	Unreliable narration. •	Characters 
and diegetic universes. •	Time and space in narrative. •	Scriptwriting 
techniques. •	Essay film, webdocumentary.
•	Autobiography, self-portrait, autofiction.
•	Transmedia storytelling. •	Intermediality: narrative as cutting across 
different media. •	Film adaptation. •	Seriality, complex television 
series. •	Narrative and new media. •	New exhibition and exposition 
formats, streaming. •	Interactive narrative. •	Design, characters and 
narrative structures in videogames. •	Narrative as a cognitive 
structure. •	Relationship between media and cognition. •	Narration and 
altered states of consciousness.  •	Narrative reception and creation 
mechanisms.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Jane Alison – University of Virginia.      Author of the book 
"Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative" (2019). 
Professor Nitzan Ben Shaul – University of Tel-Aviv.      Author of the 
book "Cinema of Choice: Optional Thinking and Narrative Movies" (2012). 
Professor Jens Eder – University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Co-editor of 
the book "Image Operations. Visual Media and Political Conflict" (2017) 
and" Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in 
Literature, Film, and Other Media" (2010). Professor Marina Grishakova – 
University of Tartu.      Co-author of the book "The Gesamtkunstwerk as 
a Synergy of the Arts" (Peter Lang, 2020); co-editor of the volumes 
"Narrative Complexity:      Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution" (2019) and 
"Intermediality and Storytelling" (2010).
Miklós Kiss – University of Groningen.      Co-author of the book 
"Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex 
Cinema" (2018).
Professor Jason Mittell – Middlebury College.
     Author of the book "Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary 
Television Storytelling"(2015).

Conference languages: English and Portuguese. The conference is free of 
charge for selected participants, but registration is required to be 
able to access the sessions.
Submission:
We invite each of you to submit a proposal for a 20-minute presentation. 
Each participant is limited to one talk. Both theoretical and 
analytical-theoretical approaches are accepted. The proposal must 
contain an abstract (500 words max.), 5 keywords, 3 bibliographical 
references and a short bio of the author (250 words max.). Send to 
Fátima Chinita ((chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com)) and Abel Júpiter 
((estc.conferencia.2021 /at/ gmail.com)).
Suggested bibliography: available on the conference website: 
https://reconfiguracoes.estc.ipl.pt

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