[Commlist] cfp: Times in between 2025: Permeable Walls and Insurmountable Barriers

  CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS + FESTIVAL SHORT FILMS



Event Title: *TIMES IN BETWEEN 2025 (Conference + Festival)*
*Conference Theme: *
Permeable Walls and Insurmountable Barriers
*Short Film Festival Theme: *
Walls and Barriers in the Re-Mediation from/of heterogeneous materials.
Date: *27-29 August 2025 *Location:* Trieste, Italy.*
*Submission Deadline: June 20, 2025.*
The Bournemouth Film School (BFS), Arts University Bournemouth, and the 
Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and 
Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab), University College Cork, invite scholars, 
researchers, screenwriters, filmmakers, and artists to participate in 
the joint Conference-Festival entitled:
*Times In-Between 2025*
Permeable Walls and Insurmountable Barriers
to be held with the support and collaboration of the historical city of 
Trieste (Italy) and the patronage of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, 
the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, the 
Screenwriting Research Network, and the Society of Authors. This event 
combines an international conference with a film festival in the city 
where the Iron Curtain descended, as Churchill proclaimed in 1946, and 
was lifted in 1991,  as where the Iron Curtain once pulsated now its 
memory and traces are mixed with the rhythms and issues of new times!
Walls and barriers have taken on different names and connotations over 
time, and if walls become permeable, other barriers remain 
insurmountable. We invite scholars and artists to gather and discuss 
permeable walls and insurmountable barriers as portrayed, contested, and 
reflected upon in the essay film form and linked expressions.
The event is an important international showcase structured to combine a 
conference and a festival of short films by auteurs worldwide. To the 
benefit of all, the format is collaborative, collegial,  and enables 
the exchange of insights, research findings, and opinions on 
relevant issues and works.
**
We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to the theme, 
which include but are not limited to the following:
·          Walls versus Barriers – Meaning and History
·          Returns: Ghostly re-apparitions and the im/permeability of 
Walls/Barriers.
·          The Spectrality of Walls and/or/versus the Spectrality of 
Barriers.
·          Walls and Barriers: matters of Semiotics or/and Phenomenology.
·          The Mediterranean – Barriers and Points of Permeability.
·          Permeable Walls – Case Studies
·          Insurmountable Barriers – Case Studies
·          Complex Realities and the Difficulty of Translating them into 
Scripts/Film
·          Middle Europe – The Land of Walls and Barriers?
·          Simplifications of the Un-Simplifiable
·          Impossible Translations – Language and Approximation in Film
·          History as a Frameless Flow versus Compartmentalized Readings.
·          Re-mediation of Archival Material in Film
·          Photos-filmic discourses: Dialogues of In-Betweens
·          Text-filmic discourses: Dialogues of In-Betweens
·          Sound-filmic discourses: Dialogues of In-Betweens
·          The Barrier Inside – Psychological Interpretation of Cultural 
Phenomena
·          Creative Practice and the Breaking of Barriers.
·          Memory versus History
·          Micro/Macro Interpretation and A.I

*KIND OF SUBMISSIONS*
Papers Submissions:
Traditional 20-Minute Papers:
– Proposals should include:
– Title
– Author’s name
– Affiliation (university, independent, practitioner, etc.)
– Contact details
– Abstract (max. 300 words)
– 5 Keywords
– Short bio (max 150 words) detailing your research activity, 
publications, and/or
screenwriting practice.
Pre-constituted Panels:
– Proposals for pre-constituted panels can be submitted by any of the 
presenters or the
panel chair.
– Panel proposals should include:
– Title of the panel
– A brief outline (max. 100 words) of the overall topic
– Abstracts of all the presentations (no more than three papers) 
following the above
abstract guidelines.
Short Films submissions:
– Title
– Author’s name
– Affiliation (university, independent, practitioner, etc.)
– Contact details
– Abstract/Synopsis (max. 300 words)
– 5 Keywords
– Short bio (max 150 words) detailing your research activity, 
publications, and/or
filmmaking practice.

*All presentations will be delivered in English and in person.*
**
Submission Deadline: June 20, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: By June 30, 2025
Please send your proposals to the Conference Executive Organizer:
(bucanevis /at/ libero.it) <mailto:(bucanevis /at/ libero.it)>
For submission details and inquiries of an academic nature, contact the 
Conference Chair, Dr Romana Turina: (rturina /at/ aub.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(rturina /at/ aub.ac.uk)>


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