[Commlist] CFP: Reframing Postcolonialism and Cinema

*CFP: ECREA FILM STUDIES SECTION CONFERENCE*

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*Reframing Postcolonialism and Cinema *

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*14-15 September 2023*

*University of Nicosia, Cyprus*

*Keynote speakers: *

*Mette Hjort (University of Lincoln) *

*Costas Constandinides (University of Cyprus)*

https://filmstudiesecrea.wordpress.com/nicosia-conference/ 
<https://filmstudiesecrea.wordpress.com/nicosia-conference/>

The forthcoming edition of the bi-annual conference of the ECREA Film 
Studies Section <https://filmstudiesecrea.wordpress.com/>will take place 
in Cyprus and will be hosted by the Department of Design and Multimedia 
of the University of Nicosia <https://www.unic.ac.cy/amd/>. Taking its 
cue from the political and cultural dimensions of its host’s 
geographical location, the conference will address and seek to reframe 
the scope of ‘postcolonial cinema’ in the current historical moment.

In an increasingly global and visually-oriented world, cinema functions 
as one of the key media of cultural exchange between nations and 
cultures. If the ‘postcolonial’ remains a useful and productive analytic 
category as ‘the necessary mode of perpetual auto-critique’ (R.J.C. 
Young, 2012: 22), then how does it help us think about the relationships 
between representation, knowledge, discourse and power upon which this 
exchange is predicated? This conference wants to contribute to ongoing 
work that places diverse geographies, histories and identities in 
dialogical relation and critiques the ways of seeing, thinking and 
representing that have grown out of colonisation and/or neo-colonial 
globalisation.

We encourage proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted panels 
on topics that include but are not limited to:

  * Postcolonial screen worlds
  * Undoing and redoing cinema historiography
  * Borders, diaspora and migration in film
  * Postcolonial feminist, queer, racial, indigenous and/or
    intersectional storytelling and representation in film
  * Postcolonial cinema’s aesthetics and politics
  * Postcolonial film theory in relation to climate change and ecology
  * Postcolonialism and posthumanism
  * Alternative modes and circuits of film production, distribution and
    exhibition
  * Postcolonialism and the decolonial turn in Film Studies: synergies
    and divergences; decolonising the discipline; screening the Global
    South.

Abstracts of maximum 300 words, along with key references, institutional 
affiliation and a short bio (max 150 words); or panel proposals, 
including a panel presentation (max 300 words) along with a minimum of 3 
and a maximum of 4 individual abstracts, should be submitted to the 
conference email address: (filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com)>__

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The conference will be in person only.

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Submission deadline: 13 March 2023

Proposal acceptance notification: 17 April 2023

ECREA membership is not required to participate in the conference. The 
conference fee will not exceed 100 EUR and will include coffee breaks, 
lunches, a film screening, and a guided tour of the divided city of Nicosia.

Conference organisers: Olga Kourelou (University of Nicosia), Mariana 
Liz (University of Lisbon), Miguel Fernández Labayen (Universidad Carlos 
III de Madrid) and Marco Cucco (University of Bologna).


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