[Commlist] ECREA Film Studies Conference: Film, Migration and the Archive

*FILM, MIGRATION AND THE ARCHIVE*

2-3 June 2022

Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Keynote Speaker:

Erica Carter (Professor of German and Film at King’s College London)

Although the Covid-19 pandemic has, among many other things, drastically 
changed global human mobility, migration remains a key phenomenon for 
the understanding of contemporary society. Sounds and moving images of 
migrants fill the small and large screens around us, with an urgency 
that has evident political, economic and social implications. The 
phenomenon of migration is also, of course, historical, which makes the 
archive an important actor in the current relationship between migration 
and cinema.

How can we make sense of the footage currently shot and screened, 
preserved and archived, lost and found, of past and current migration, 
and what consequences does this have for the understanding of film and 
moving image archives in the twenty-first century?

This conference brings together scholars and film practitioners working 
at the intersections between film, migration and the archive, to ask 
what can be learnt from the opening of private, regional, or national 
public archives, and from the creation of new image databases on 
migration, as well as the mobility of moving images themselves. The 
conference will include a visit to the film archive of Cinemateca 
Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema.

Discussion topics include, but are not limited to:

  * Case studies of film archives or collections related to migration
  * The role of the archive as history depository, tool or writing
    device, in relation to the topic of migration
  * Newly created archives and the connection between migration and the
    digital humanities
  * Ethical concerns about the use of migrant images in found footage films
  * Methodological questions about the structuring of archives
    integrating films about human mobility, including matters of
    cataloguing, digitization and access
  * Screening practices of archival films about migration
  * New visual representations of migration, including self-representation
  * Emerging migrant filmmakers, producers and storytellers
  * Participatory cinema and migration

Please submit an abstract (max 300 words) along with key references, 
institutional affiliation and a short bio (max 150 words); or a panel 
proposal, including a panel presentation (max 300 words) along with a 
minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 individual abstracts.

Submission deadline: 11 March 2022

Proposal acceptance notification: 8 April 2022

Please send your abstract/panel proposals to the conference email 
address: (filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com)>

ECREA membership is not required to participate in the conference. The 
conference fee will not exceed 50 EUR and will include coffee breaks, 
lunches, receptions and the visit to the Cinemateca Portuguesa archive.

The conference takes place in Lisbon and is hosted by the Institute of 
Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. The conference is organised 
by the ECREA Film Studies Section in co-operation with ICS-ULisboa, the 
Research Project “Cartografías del Cine de Movilidad en el Hispánico 
Atlántico” (CSO2017-85290-P) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the 
University of Antwerp.

Conference organisers: Mariana Liz (University of Lisbon), Miguel 
Fernández Labayen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Gertjan Willems 
(University of Antwerp/Ghent University) and Pedro Figueiredo Neto 
(University of Lisbon).


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