June 4-6, 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Deadline: December 1, 2019
Scholars are hereby invited to sign up for a hands-on symposium on film exhibition and distribution during World War II. The purpose of the symposium is threefold:
(1) Developing and sharing methodological expertise in compiling, analysing and comparing data on historical film programming;
(2) Gaining more insight in the transnational patterns of film supply and demand during the war, across belligerent and neutral countries;
(3) Building and strengthening a network of scholars with a shared interest in the topic.
The symposium is co-produced by CREATE (University of Amsterdam) and DICIS (Scientific Research Network on Digital Cinema Studies) and hosted by the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam. It will consist of two main segments: a seminar with brief presentations, and a workshop where participants will work hands-on with the collaboratively collected data. Participants in the symposium are requested to compile, in advance, a data set that consists of film programming data, according to a fixed data model, in order to allow for comparative analysis. Afterwards, all data will be made publicly available in an open access environment.
The detailed call for participants can be read and downloaded here: https://www.digitalcinemastudies.com/documents/cfp-symposium-movie-theatres-in-wartime.pdf
Application
If you are interested in joining this initiative, please send the organisers a document with the following information, before 1 December
- Brief description of relevant research interests
- Brief curriculum vitae + contact details
- Description of expected data set (which city/country; which available sources for film programming); current status of the data set (existing data set or to be compiled)
- Maximum: 2 pages
Please note that participants are expected to cover their own costs for travel and accommodation. Registration is free.
Please send your application to the organisers: Thunnis van Oort (T.vanOort@uva.nl), Roel Vande Winkel (roel.vandewinkel@kuleuven.be) and Pavel Skopal (skopal@phil.muni.cz)
