Dear All
Apologies in advance for circulating this call a few times between now and
its deadline, together with any further details that evolve in the meantime.
Call for Proposals starts:-
15th edition of the Film-Philosophy Conference
Espinho, Portugal
1-3 July 2024 (with welcome event on 30 June 2024)
In person
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Catherine Constable (University of Warwick) - ‘The Sublime and Contemporary
Science Fiction Film’
João Mário Grilo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - 'The description
of film direction as a philosophical operation: the case of Mizoguchi’s
gendai-geki'
Homay King (Bryn Mawr College) - 'Enigma, Opacity: Race, Psychoanalysis,
and the Image according to Laplanche and Glissant'
TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED
The call for this conference is open, in that there is no expected single
theme or set of themes, although we shall certainly encourage speakers to
propose papers on topics that push at the boundaries of film-philosophy, be
that by looking at non-western films and/or film thinkers, or that are
engaged in 'decolonial' film-philosophical work in some respect. And of
course we welcome speakers from non-western (or, if you prefer,
non-northern) backgrounds.
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Scholars, both established and emerging, are invited to submit proposals
for the conference. These will generally take the form of individual papers
– but we are open to video-essays and panel proposals, as well as proposals
for workshops and roundtables with multiple speakers. Please contact the
conference organisers before submitting panel or roundtable/workshop
proposals.
Proposals (including titles and abstracts) of up to 500 words should be
submitted to [log in to unmask] The deadline for the proposals
is 28 February 2024, with accepted speakers being notified by the end of
March 2024.
Proposals will be blind peer-reviewed and so there is no need at present to
submit a biography (although a name and contact details are necessary).
Biographies will only be requested upon acceptance into the conference.
CONFERENCE FEE
The conference fee will be set in the next few weeks, and will be included
in forthcoming announcements about the conference. The conference does not
provide funding for presenters to attend (aside from keynote speakers).
FEST FILM FESTIVAL
This year’s Film-Philosophy Conference is held primarily in partnership
with the FEST Film Festival, which will be running just ahead of
the Film-Philosophy Conference, from 24 June to 1 July, 2024. Delegates may
want to consider attending both events. The festival's website is here:
https://site.fest.pt/en/.
ESPINHO
Espinho is a beautiful seaside town just south of Porto, which is home to
the nearest airport. In Antonio Tabucchi's *Pereira Maintains*, the
narrator describes Espinho as "a classy beach with a swimming-pool and
casino, I often used to have a swim there and then a game of billiards,
there was a first-rate billiard room, and that’s where I and my fiancée
whom I later married used to go… that was a wonderful time in my life, and
maybe I dream about it because it gives me pleasure to dream about it." We
can't guarantee billiards, but the beach, swimming pool and, for those
interested in such things, the casino will all be there.
LANGUAGE
The conference will be held in English.
ORGANISING INSTITUTIONS
University of British Columbia
FEST Film Festival, Espinho
IFILNOVA
Universidade de Coimbra
PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE FILM-PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
2023: Chapman University, USA
2022: Middlesex University, UK (online)
2021: East Tennessee State University, USA (online)
2019: University of Brighton, UK
2018: University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2017: Lancaster University, UK
2016: University of Edinburgh, UK
2015: University of Oxford, UK
2014: University of Glasgow, UK
2013: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012: Kings College, London, Kingston University, Queen Mary University of
London, UK
2011: Liverpool John Moores University, UK
2010: University of Warwick, UK
2009: University of Dundee, UK
Ends
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Dr William Brown
Assistant Professor of Film, University of British Columbia
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Website: http://begstealborrowfilms.com/
Recent publications
2023: *Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene*,
Winchester: Zer0 Books. (Available here
<https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/navigating-white-anthropocene-black-chthulucene>
:
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/navigating-white-anthropocene-black-chthulucene
.)
2023: 'Black Cinematic Poethics,' Film-Philosophy, 27:3,
https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2023.0239.
2023: 'The Colour of Film-Philosophy,' Film-Philosophy, 27:2,
https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2023.0226.
2022: 'Black (W)hole Foods: Okra, Soil and Blackness in The Underground
Railroad (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2021),' Philosophies, 7:5,
https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7050117.
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Dr William Brown
Assistant Professor of Film, University of British Columbia
M: +1 604 916 9991
E1: [log in to unmask]
E2: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://begstealborrowfilms.com/
Recent publications
2023: *Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene*,
Winchester: Zer0 Books. (Available here
<https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/navigating-white-anthropocene-black-chthulucene>
:
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/navigating-white-anthropocene-black-chthulucene
.)
2023: 'Black Cinematic Poethics,' Film-Philosophy, 27:3,
https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2023.0239.
2023: 'The Colour of Film-Philosophy,' Film-Philosophy, 27:2,
https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2023.0226.
2022: 'Black (W)hole Foods: Okra, Soil and Blackness in The Underground
Railroad (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2021),' Philosophies, 7:5,
https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7050117.
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