EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

Lund, Sweden, June 25-28, 2009 in cooperation with Film Studies / Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University. Submissions deadline: January 31, 2009.

Founded in February of 2006, NECS, the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, brings together scholars and researchers in the field of cinema, film and media studies with archivists and film and media professionals. A first NECS workshop was held in Berlin on the occasion of the network’s founding in 2006, followed by large international conferences in Vienna 2007 and Budapest 2008. Over the last two years, NECS has won more than 450 members worldwide. The next NECS conference, “Locating Media”, will take place in Lund, Sweden, from June 25 through 28, 2009. Lund is situated close to one of Sweden’s production hubs on the Swedish side of the Öresund region. This particular geographical location makes Lund a perfect place to explore broader issues of space, place and locale in relation to cinema and media studies in general, and cultural and creative industries in particular. We invite papers exploring the following range of issues:
--Locating Practices: Regional, local, national and global media practices through history;
--Locating Media Production: Political, economic, social and cultural impact of located / relocated film
and TV productions;
--Locating Movements: Migrating media, migrating audiences, diasporic filmmakers;
--Locating Technologies: Mobile media and the medialization of space (from surveillance to YouTube);
--Locating Aesthetics: Styles of place/places of style in various media texts;
--Locating Research: Methodological nuances, theoretical consequences and political implications for scholarly practices within future film- and media studies.
Scholars from all areas of film and media studies (radio, television, new media etc.), whether
previously attached to NECS or new to the network, are invited to submit proposals for contributions.
Please note that you may hand in a paper or panel proposal related to the thematic guidelines of the conference outlined above, or alternatively submit a paper or panel proposal for open call in any field of cinema and media studies.
For this year’s conference, we especially encourage pre-constituted panels in order to strengthen the thematic coherence of individual panels. There are three ways of participating in the Lund conference:
(1) participating in or organising a pre-constituted panel within already existing frameworks: a
NECS work group (see member section of the NECS website), an established network, a
research project, etc. NECS work groups are especially encouraged to hand in a panel proposal;
(2) participating in panels that have been formed online in the run-up to the conference. Please
check the website (www.necs-initiative.org) for open panels which might suit your interests
and contact the panel organizers directly in case you wish to participate;
(3) participating with an individual paper.
Panels may consist of up to 5 speakers with a maximum of 20 minutes speaking time each. All
presenters are asked to provide us with a title, an abstract of max 150 words, 3-5 keywords, 3-5 key bibliographical references, technical requirements, name of the presenter and institutional affiliation. Panel organizers are asked to submit panel proposals including a panel title, a short description (up to 100 words) of the panel and information on all the papers as listed above.
Please submit all proposals before January 31, 2009 by sending them via email to
conference@necs-initiative.org. Notification will follow shortly thereafter (around February 28, 2009). The conference language is English.
NECS-membership is required to participate in the conference. In order to be included in the final programme (due June 1, 2009) , you need to have a valid membership. Register with NECS at www.necs-initiative.org now. You may pay your membership fee upon arrival in Lund. For the terms of NECS membership, please see our website.
Conference attendance is free. Participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. Travel information as well as a list of affordable hotels and other accommodations will be posted on the NECS website in the spring of 2009.
Detailed information on NECS can be found on the NECS website, www.necs-initiative.org. Please address all inquiries to conference@necs-initiative.org.
For the conference organizers:
The NECS Conference Committee
Melis Behlil, Mats Jönsson, András Bálint Kovács, Tarja Laine, Terez Vincze,
Patrick Vonderau
The NECS Steering Committee
Malte Hagener, Vinzenz Hediger, Dorota Ostrowska,
Alexandra Schneider, Patrick Vonderau