CFP HOMER@NECS2013 & HOMER workshop Prague, June 19/20-22 2013

From: Meers Philippe <[email protected]>

With apologies for cross-posting.

HOMER@NECS 2013  conference panels
June 20-22, 2013

HOMER workshop
June 19, 2013

Prague, Czech Republic

HOMER@NECS 2013,  22-22 June, 2013

Call for HOMER-panels at the NECS 2013 International Conference
Submission Deadline: January 21, 2013
Please email all inquiries to [email protected]<mailto:
[email protected]>

The History of movie-going, exhibition and reception or HOMER Group was
founded in June 2004 by an international group of cinema scholars to
promote the understanding of the complex phenomena of cinema-going,
exhibition, and reception, from a multidisciplinary perspective. HOMER has
organized panels, conferences and workshops, with the  'Cinema in Context'
conference in Amsterdam (April 2006) and the 'The Glow in their Eyes'
conference  in Ghent (December 2007) as highlights. Since then, the field
of 'new cinema history' has grown substantially. This body of research has
achieved critical mass and methodological maturity. It defines itself a
social history of a cultural institute and aims to identify film as a
cultural artifact consumed by a variety of audiences. 'New cinema history'
addresses wider societal, political and other forces in historicizing film
spectatorship, cinema-going and exhibition.

The time is right to review the current state of research in the history of
movie-going and film exhibition and distribution. For this year, HOMER has
joined forces with the major European film and media studies organization
NECS, which is so kind to integrate a number of HOMER panels into their
2013 international NECS conference, i.e. HOMER@NECS 2013.

We support the submission of individual papers or pre-constituted panel
proposals from HOMER members and interested non-members, as we seek to
bring together scholars dealing with these subjects from all over the
globe. The growing number of case studies in local film history increases
the need for comparative studies of cities, regions, and nations, while the
relationship between micro and macro history(ies) is becoming a major issue
for the field. The analysis of patterns and networks in film culture also
calls for special attention to methodology. We aim to bring European
perspectives on cinema-going and film exhibition into dialogue with US,
Australian, African, South American and Asian research.

Possible topics for papers are e.g.:

*         Film exhibition, cinema-going and film experience in relation to
theories of imperialism, post-colonialism, diaspora, etc.;

*         Long term tendencies such as the rise of cinemas in rural and
urban environments, the boom of cinema-going, the decay and subsequent
closure of many (provincial and neighborhood) cinemas and the rise of
multiplexes;

*         Tensions between commercial and/or ideological film exhibition,
between urban and rural areas, and between provinces and regions;

*         Institutional developments, geographical location and programming
trends;

*         Audiences and film experiences in urban and rural contexts;

*         A comparative international perspective on cinema-going and
exhibition;

*         Representations in films of cinema-going, film exhibition, film
culture(s);

*         Reflections on methods: How to reconcile/combine large scale
analysis with in depth case study? How to

compare national or regional research/databases on exhibition and
cinema-going?

*         The "top down" forces of industry, commerce and ideology vs.
"bottom up" forces of experience;

*         Contesting concepts of public and private space in media
experience;

*         Cinema's integration into to the metropolitan experience of
modernity, vs. its role in the construction of community in less urbanized
and rural areas.

We explicitly invite non-HOMER scholars who are working on the mentioned
topics and want to share their research with international colleagues. As
with the Ghent conference a selection of papers presented at the conference
will be published in an edited volume in 2014 (publisher to be confirmed)
HOMER@NECS 2013 will be also preceded by a one day HOMER workshop
(practical information on the workshop follows below).

Practical information

You can submit an individual paper proposal or a pre-constituted panel
proposal. Panels may consist of 3 to 4 speakers with a maximum of 20
minutes speaking time each. All presenters are obliged to provide a title,
an abstract of maximum 150 words, 3 to 5 key bibliographical references,
name of the presenter and institutional affiliation, plus a short panel
rationale (150 words max.) in case of a pre-constituted panel.

Please submit all individual paper or panel proposals by Monday January 21,
2013 to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
You will be notified of acceptance shortly thereafter.  Please note that
HOMER papers and panels should not be submitted via the NECS online
submission system, but via e-mail to Lies Van De Vijver, as they will be
reviewed separately by the HOMER 2013 programming team.

HOMER workshop June 19, 2013
Call for Participation at the HOMER workshop
Submission Deadline: January 21, 2013
Please email all inquiries to [email protected]<mailto:
[email protected]>


To bring together HOMER members and other interested scholars,
HOMER@NECS2013 is preceded by a one day HOMER workshop. If you are
interested in the
topics of the CFP, you are kindly invited to participate. The workshop does
not consist of formal paper presentations (as the conference will), but of
informal discussions on methods, approaches, possibilities for
collaboration and an overview of the field.

The aim of the meeting is to discuss the state of the art of the research
done by members of the HOMER project and rethink the organizational status
of HOMER as a network.

We kindly request your participation by answering six questions. Please
answer these questions briefly (max. 10 lines each), but thoroughly to give
an accurate picture of your research (stages) today. These answers will be
bundled to give an overview of current research. Key-note Richard Maltby
will open the discussion on the state of the art during the HOMER workshop.

Provisional program:

10:00   Welcome and general introduction by Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent U.)
and Philippe Meers (U. of Antwerp)
10:30   Key note by Richard Maltby (Flinders U.)
11:00   Discussion on the State of the Art  (based on information on
projects provided by participants)
12:30   LUNCH break
14:00   Discussion continued
14:30   General comments and conclusion
15.00   Discussing HOMER: organization, visibility, joint projects, etc.
16.15   Coffee break
16.30   Closing discussion
17:00   End

Please submit your participation proposal by Monday January 21, 2013 to
[email protected]. You will be notified of acceptance shortly
thereafter.

We look forward to seeing many of you in Prague!

The HOMER programming team
Daniel Biltereyst
Philippe Meers
Clara Pafoort-Overduin
John Sedgwick
Judith Thissen
Daniela Treveri-Gennari
Lies Van De Vijver

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1. Describe your research SUBJECT.






2. Describe the main OBJECTIVES of the research.




3. Describe the PERIOD your research is focused on.




4. Describe the geographical REGION your research is focused on.




5. Describe your research METHODOLOGY.







6. Describe, if possible, the main OUTCOME / RESULTS of the research and
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