[Commlist] CfP HoMER 2024 Conference - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Call for Papers: History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception 2024

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 10th-12thJuly 2024

Pre-conference session - 9thJuly 2024

Keynote Speaker: to be confirmed

ESPM-Rio

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Programa de Pós-graduação em Cinema e Audiovisual da Universidade 
Federal Fluminense (PPGCine-UFF)


20 years of HoMER: What has been done and where is it going?

It has been 20 years since the initial meeting of scholars that would 
lead to the formation of the international and transdisciplinary History 
of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception (HoMER) research network. During 
this time, our field has been enriched and expanded by a wide range of 
developments including the empirical and digital turns in cinema 
studies, the methodological refinements of the New Cinema History, the 
centring of audience memories and experiences, the ongoing return to the 
film itself as an artefact for consideration, and many more besides. 
Following two decades of exceptionally fruitful activity, we invite 
colleagues to reflect on the paths our research has taken during this 
time, the impact of the changing technological, cultural, intellectual 
and institutional landscapes in which we have operated, the ways in 
which our work has (or has not) expanded its focus to a more diverse 
range of territories, cultures and histories, and the horizons of the 
field yet to be explored.

For this 20th anniversary conference, we welcome proposals for papers or 
pre-constituted panels focussing on any aspect of the history of 
moviegoing, exhibition and reception, but in addressing this theme of 
looking back across recent developments and forwards to future research 
avenues, we would especially welcome papers that consider the 
intersections between empirical cinema histories and the following issues:

 1.

    Transdisciplinarity

Film and cinema history has always been a field of study that has 
crossed disciplinary boundaries. However, as the field embraced both the 
empirical focus that informed HoMER’s development and the advent of 
digital humanities approaches that have shaped a significant portion of 
our activity since, an ever-broader range of perspectives from beyond 
the field has recalibrated the ways in which we think about and 
conceptualise our work. How have these transdisciplinary interventions 
been understood and deployed, both from a theoretical and a 
methodological standpoint? Which other disciplines ought we to be 
looking towards as we continue to seek productive innovations and fresh 
perspectives?

 2.

    Consolidation

Over the last two decades, the types of projects undertaken by cinema 
historians have become increasingly diverse as the focus has taken in, 
amongst others, the compilation and interoperability of large data sets, 
comparative work across local, regional, national and international 
boundaries, the tracing of industrial relationships and their impact on 
exhibition and distribution practices, the shaping of audience 
recollections by the complexities and specificities of memory, and the 
geographical patterns and relationships revealed by GIS spatial analysis 
and mapping tools. How have these, and the many other, developments in 
the field informed and interacted with each other? What have been the 
most influential of developments and where, perhaps, have others not 
been embraced as fully as they required? What has been achieved in the 
last 20 years of such innovations and which research practices might 
need to be further embedded?

 3.

    Global histories

Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for this anniversary conference is 
particularly significant given how much HoMER’s geographical coverage 
has extended since its early focus on Western Europe and North America. 
The number of colleagues affiliated with HoMER in Latin America has 
grown significantly in recent years and we are delighted to recognise 
this by hosting our first conference in the region. At the same time, we 
recognise that further diversification would be extremely welcome and we 
would especially encourage proposals from scholars working on regions of 
the globe that are currently underrepresented in the network, notably 
Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

 4.

    Future opportunities

While much has been achieved in the last two decades, the pace of change 
and innovation is only accelerating. While reflecting on all that has 
been achieved since the initial meeting of what would become the HoMER 
network, we also look to the years ahead and ask colleagues to consider 
what appear to be the most tantalising opportunities and avenues for 
future work. Where are the gaps in the current landscape of cinema 
history research and how can we start to think about addressing them? 
What are the methodological and theoretical interventions that will most 
profoundly shape the field in the years to come? What are the 
implications of new technologies, such as generative AI, for our work? 
How can we best engage with new directions in public discourses around 
heritage, community and the potential social, cultural and economic 
impacts of our work?

The conference, hosted at Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing in 
the south zone of Rio de Janeiro, will commence with an optional 
pre-conference workshop on 9thJuly 2024. Details of this workshop will 
be announced in due course. The main conference will be held from 
10th-12thJuly. We are currently exploring the extent of digital 
hybridity that will be possible, though at the very least we will be 
able to accommodate remote presentations where necessary.

Please send your proposal through the abstract submission form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1agLsPf4tcdwXUSiuSkuhIazAF9iNwBDSNSSPbq9l648/viewform?edit_requested=true>. 
250-word proposals for individual presentations, including the title of 
the paper and the name, email address and institutional affiliation of 
the presenter, or 750-word proposals for pre-constituted, including an 
outline of each paper as well as the title of the panel and the name, 
email address and institutional affiliation of each presenter.

The deadline for proposals is *14**th**January 2024*. Should you have 
any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference 
coordinators: Matthew (Jonesm.w.jones /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(m.w.jones /at/ exeter.ac.uk)> and Talitha Ferraz: 
(talitha.ferraz /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(talitha.ferraz /at/ gmail.com)>


Talitha Ferraz, Åsa Jernudd, Matthew Jones and Maria Luna-Rassa

(HoMER network co-ordinators)


Programming Commitee: Åsa Jernudd, Clara Pafort-Overduin, Daniela 
Treveri Gennari, Hadja Chalupe, James M Burns, Maria Luna Rassa, Matthew 
Jones, Talitha Ferraz.


Local Organising Committee: Alisson Santana, Andreson de Carvalho, 
Hadija Chalupe, João Luiz Vieira, Lívia Cabrera, Marcela Soalheiro, 
Natália Stadler, Pedro Curi, Pedro Butcher, Rafael de Luna, Ryan 
Brandão, Sabrina Monteiro, Sancler Ebert, Talitha Ferraz

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