[MGSA-L] cfp Contemporary Greek Film 2013

[Tonia Kazakopoulou]

Apologies for cross-posting, but the following CFP may be of interest to members:


Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013: an interdisciplinary, international conference
At the Hellenic Centre, London, 5-6 July 2013
At a time when news surrounding Greece has almost exclusively been about the financial crisis, it is imperative to redress the balance by examining the productive forces of culture in the country, maintaining that Greece is something more than a country in debt.

Greek filmmakers have accepted the challenge of the times and Greek Cinema has continued to flourish yet again within trying contexts. Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013 is an international conference for the study of Contemporary Greek Film, co-organised by the Universities of Reading and Glasgow, and hosted by the Hellenic Centre in London (http://www.helleniccentre.org<http://www.helleniccentre.org/>).  This 2-day conference seeks to actively help expand the current scholarship in Greek Film Studies, and help promote a more concerted study and theorisation of Contemporary Greek Cinema, reflecting on the multi-faceted contexts of production, distribution and research of Greek Cinema, in Greece and abroad. These discussions and reflections may be placed within, and extend the scope of, current studies in European and World Cinemas. Moreover, key objectives of the conference will be to help create, or further establish already existing research networks and working groups within Greek Film scholarship, and enhance collaborations among researchers. The aim is for this conference to become an open, international and interdisciplinary forum for the study of Greek Film, with the potential for annual or bi-annual meetings maintained subsequently at different institutions internationally.

Keynote speakers:

Ms Angeliki Antoniou, filmmaker

Ms Olga Malea, filmmaker

Dr Lydia Papadimitriou, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University



CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite papers, posters, workshop proposals, practice-as-research contributions on the broad subject of contemporary Greek film culture/s.  Topics may include, but are not exclusive to:
Women and Cinema
Popular Cinema
Genre
Representations of Otherness
Politics in Greek Cinema/Contemporary political film
The National and the Transnational
Film Adaptations
Audiences of Greek Cinema
Representations of youth in contemporary Greek films
Greece/Greek Film in European and World Cinema contexts
History and Historiography
Pre-Contemporary studies of Greek Cinema
Production and Distribution cultures and contexts of Contemporary Greek Cinema
Greek Film Studies/Studying Greek Cinema
Education and filmmaking
This is an opportunity for more established and early career and postgraduate researchers to share their work and experience. Attendance of non-presenting delegates to the conference is also warmly invited.
CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Monday 25th February 2013
Please send a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper and a 50-word biographical note to Tonia Kazakopoulou, Mikela Fotiou and Philip Phillis at:
 contemporarygreekfilm2013 at gmail.com<mailto:contemporarygreekfilm2013 at gmail.com>
Proposals for practice-as-research presentations have to conform to the 20-minute format. Proposals for workshops have to clearly indicate aims, time span and technical requirements (as applicable).
Please check our website and Facebook page for updates:
http://contemporarygreekcinema2013.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ContemporaryGreekFilmCultures2013
We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider promotion of this conference through your networks.


Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013 is supported by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading; the Graduate School, College of Arts, University of Glasgow; the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics, University of Reading; the Hellenic Centre in London; Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation; the Hellenic Film Academy; and the Greek Film Centre.


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