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International film and media studies conference organized by the Sapientia University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), within the framework of the research project supported by the UEFISCDI, 25-26 October, 2019. Deadline for proposals: July 15, 2019.

This conference aims to explore the connections and relationships between literature and the screen, from the pre-cinematic age to the era of television and new digital technologies.

Cluj-Napoca, Romania August 29-31. The conference is a collaboration between Linnæus Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and The Center for Transdisciplinary Research - Ekphrasis, Universitatea Babeş- Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca.

Contrasting Visions of Technological Change

18-20 Nov. 2019. Quito, Equador

The Vol. 21, Issue 2/2019 of Ekphrasis looks for novel and creative approaches on film and mediality.

13-15 June 2019, hosted by the University of Gdańsk

Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2019

Escrita, som, imagem II colóquio internacional

Call for Papers

Venue: Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil May 21st - 25th 2019

Call for submissions: NECSUS Autumn 2019_#Gesture

Guest editor: Miriam de Rosa (Coventry University)

Quebec Society for Theatre Studies - 2019 International Conference

Theatre and New Materialisms

Montreal, Canada - May 27-29,2019

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Deadline December 10, 2018

NECSUS is an international, double blind peer-reviewed journal of media studies connected to NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) and published by Amsterdam University Press. The journal is multidisciplinary and strives to bring together the best work in the field of media studies across the humanities and social sciences. We aim to publish research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture inside and outside the academic community.

Det lyses ut en 100 % fast stilling som førsteamanuensis i medievitenskap ved Institutt for kunst- og medievitenskap (IKM) ved Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) i Trondheim. Stillingen er primært tilknyttet instituttets bachelorprogram i medievitenskap og masterprogrammet i film- og medievitenskap, studieretning medievitenskap.

Five PhD-Scholarships at the GNK-Research Training Group „Testimonies. Media and Cultures of Witnessing“

Special Issue of  Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies

Please submit completed essays or reports to the issue guest editors, Patrick Brodie (patbrodie337@gmail.com), Lisa Han (lisahan@umail.ucsb.edu), and Weixian Pan (hannahpan622@gmail.com) by March 31, 2018.

Applications are invited for a position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Special Needs Education in conjunction with the project on “The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality: Cultural Representations and Societal Significance” (BIODIAL)

The Department of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor, with a specialization in Television, Video and Film production, to join their Media Arts program, beginning August, 2018

24th SERCIA Conference, 6-8 September 2018, Sweden Hosted by Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, campus Växjö

The University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University

The NECS 2018 Conference Media Tactics and Engagement 27-29 June 2018 Hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam

^{Moving Images – Static Spaces?}

^{The blurring of Architectures, Film, Animation, Digital Art, Coding and Design}

^{Dates: 12-13 April 2018}

^{Place: Altinbaş Foundation / Istanbul Kemerburgaz University}

Call for Papers for

An Interdisciplinary Conference on

Nostalgia in Contemporary Culture

 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

(in association with the University of Oulu and Linnaeus University)

 4-5 June 2018

 Funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS)

Call for Chapters: Collective Book

*PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE*

The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting abstracts from scientists, scholars, artists, film makers, game designers or developers for the fourth issue entitled »Image Evolution. Technological Transformations of Visual Media Culture«. YoMIS will be enriched by disciplines like media and film studies, image science, (film)philosophy, phenomenology, semiotics, design and fine arts, art and media history, game studies and other research areas related to static, moving and digital images in general.

The HASTAC Scholars application is now open. Applications will be due October 15, 2017. Selected Scholars will serve a two-year term, beginning on November 1, 2017, and concluding on October 30, 2019. Read on for all the details you need to know in order to apply. Thank you for your interest!

This program is designed to be shaped by the HASTAC Scholars each year. The HASTAC Scholars program is directed by Kalle Westerling (Ph.D. Candidate, Theatre and Performance, CUNY). The director provides leadership and arranges opportunities for the cohort of Scholars.

The Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts invites applications for two tenure-track assistant professor faculty positions to begin Fall 2018. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in hand at the time of application.