ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Edited volume by Olga Kourelou and Philip E. Phillis 

Deadline (EXTENDED): October 31, 2024

Greek cinema has been defined primarily on national terms with discussions revolving around questions of ‘Greekness’ and what Greek films reveal about the national character and culture. Therefore, the idea of transnational Greek cinema may at first sound like an oxymoron. Yet, as Maria Chalkou has argued, what is perhaps the most distinguished characteristic of Greek cinema today is the ‘renegotiation and redefinition of the national through the transnational’ (2020). Indeed, since the 2000s and especially after 2010 and the international success of the films of the so-called ‘Greek Weird Wave’, Greek film culture has been characterised by an increasing openness – what Lydia Papadimitriou has described as ‘extroversion’ (2018). On the one hand, this is the result of the intensification of co-production activity and the distribution and consumption of Greek films beyond their national borders. On the other, this is evident in the thematic preoccupations of an ever-larger number of films that take a more fluid approach towards the national by focusing on the multicultural make-up of Greek society and by bringing to the fore the subjectivities of ethnic ‘others’, questioning thus nationalist myths of purity, authenticity and containment.

This edited volume invites chapter proposals that will open up discussions of Greek cinema and film culture beyond the national through a consideration of its transnational dimensions. The scope of the book is historical in that we are interested in mapping out Greek cinema’s transnationalism diachronically. While scholars have rightly pointed out the recent outwardness of Greek cinema, Greek film culture has always been transnational. This was especially the case in the post-war era, when production and exhibition practices, as Dimitris Eleftheriotis has demonstrated (2001, 2006), were of a hybrid character, involving cultural exchanges with both the West and the East. However, the transnationalism of this period of Greek cinema, and of others, remains under-researched and this gap in our knowledge is something this book aims to fill. We welcome contributions adopting different methodologies in their analysis, from empirical to text-based. The goal of this publication is to explore at what levels the transnational manifests itself in Greek cinema, whether this is in terms of production, distribution, exhibition, creative personnel, content, or form, as well as to what effect, looking specifically at the politics and ideological implications within transnational flows. For, as Rosalind Galt reminds us, ‘the transnational is always political because it demands that we think about the relationships of cinema and geopolitics through, between, and beyond the state’ (2016).

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Transnational modes of production, distribution and exhibition from early Greek cinema to today
  
• Co-productions
  
• Auterism and cosmopolitanism
  
• Genre flows, remakes and remixes
  
• Transnational cinephilia
  
• Transnational actors and stars
  
• Migration (representations of migrants, refugees and ethnic ‘others’; migrant and diasporic filmmakers; borders and border-crossing)
  
• Queer transnationalism
  
• Greek locations in international filmmaking, and film tourism
  
• Reception of Greek films abroad (festivals, audiences, exhibition practices, critical reception)
  
• Transnational readings of the so-called ‘new’ and ‘old Greek cinema’
  
• Language, dubbing, subtitling
  

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The edited volume is under consideration with Edinburgh University Press.

Please send a title, 300 word abstract and a short biography in a single file to transnationalgreekcinema@gmail.com by 31st October 2024. The final chapters should be around 6000-8000 words and submitted to the editors by the end of May 2025. No payment from authors will be required. 

Département de communication of the Université de Montréal

We are hiring! 

The Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal brings together professors who excel in various fields related to communication studies. Our members are actively engaged in cutting-edge research, provide high-quality teaching, and promote innovation, often within an interdisciplinary framework. 

We are looking to hire a colleague specializing in organizational communication whose work will enrich our departmental expertise, particularly, but not exclusively, on topics such as the relationships between technology and organizations, workplace relationships and emotions, as well as organizational practices related to environmental challenges. We welcome a diversity of conceptual and methodological approaches. 

For more information, please visit: https://rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_car_eng/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=3&JobOpeningId=527488&PostingSeq=1

October 25, 2024 (9-10:30 AM EST)

The Urbanism/Geography/Architecture Scholarly Interest Group at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) invites you to its online book talks on "home on screen." Please find the information on our first virtual talk below.

Home Screens: Public Housing in Global Film & Television (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Join us for a conversation featuring editor Lorrie Palmer and contributors Michael Dwyer, Heidi Kumpf, Steven Macek, Anna Viola Sborgi, Chung-kin Tsang and Kalima Young!

For more details and the Zoom link please register here: https://lu.ma/f66s6nqs

October 16, 2024

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to the online launch of the new Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique (see: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3). During the launch, the editors will explain the rationale behind the Special Issue and some authors will summarize their papers. There will be time for questions and discussion.

There is no need to register. Simply join us on the 16th of October 2024 at 4:00pm UK time (BST). Here are the details for the Zoom meeting:

Topic: SI Launch: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media

Time: Oct 16, 2024 04:00 PM London 

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99557251541?pwd=QsbxElMTLDqMG56dEM2H3xSeX8wbKh.1

Meeting ID: 995 5725 1541

Passcode: 744986

We hope to see many of you there!

Łukasz, Yener, and Radhika

June 12-16, 2025

ICA Conference in Denver, USA

Deadline: November 1, 2024

 ICA 2025 Conference Theme: Additional Info for CHD

- In addition to open-call submissions, the CHD encourages members to submit work engaging the ICA 2025 conference theme “ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research,” which is of particular relevance and interest to members of the division. Historical approaches to the conference theme are especially welcome (for more information about the conference theme, see: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2025/ica2025-theme-cfp.pdf).

Submissions might address (though not exclusive to) the following themes:

- Historical case studies about specific practices, institutions, industries, and/or media technologies offering a reflection on media and communication studies;

- Historical trajectories and political economy of media and communication scholarship, especially with regards to disruption and consolidation;

- The public impact of media and communication scholarship (in public discourse, policy-making, cultural artifacts, etc.);

- The “communication” (or “communication research”) label as an element of integration and/or as a repellent, in the context of the increased globalization of the field and inter/trans-disciplinary perspectives;

- Disruptions associated with ideas, technologies, and/or research with a focus on minority contexts or those less represented in scholarship;

- The history of the International Communication Association (its conferences, divisions, journals; leadership, etc.).

If you have any queries about submitting a proposal to CHD, please contact vice chair Dominique Trudel, dtrudel@audencia.com

Types of submissions accepted by the CHD 

For ICA 2025 Conference, CHD will accept four types of submissions: full papers, posters, extended abstracts, and panel session proposals (for more information, see: https://www.icahdq.org/page/SubmissionTypes).

1.    Full papers – “Traditional" full papers should not exceed 8,000 words, excluding title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. Most full papers will be presented in paper sessions and some may be selected for the interactive poster session. Authors will have the option on the submission page to have their submission considered just for paper panels or both paper panels and poster sessions. CHD will award prizes for the best paper and the best student-led paper. 

2.    Posters – A poster presentation is a submission that an author wishes to be considered for presentation in a poster session. Poster proposals should not exceed 2,000 words, excluding the title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. If the submission is accepted as a poster, authors will be expected to prepare a poster display of the research for presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted posters should bring a physical paper or fabric poster.

3.    Extended Abstracts – The extended abstracts session is an opportunity for scholars with a work-in-progress to receive feedback and support to move toward future stages like publication, conference presentation, doctoral dissertation, and others. Submitted Extended abstracts should not exceed 2,000 words, excluding the title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. Extended abstract submissions are not eligible for Top Paper awards but CHD will recognize the best extended abstract and the best student-led extended abstract by awarding Promising Research awards. Accepted extended abstracts will be presented during the scheduled session(s), which will encourage shorter presentations of the work and more encouragement of feedback and assistance from attendees to help advance the work and its contribution.

4.    Panel Proposals – Panel proposals should bring together different scholars focusing on a common topic or problem in media and communication history. They could also take the form of roundtables. Panel proposals require a 400-word rationale, a 75-word panel description and, if there are individual presentations, a 75-word abstract from each panel participant. When submitting a pre-formed panel, you should base your submission-type decision on what the people in your panel are planning to do in terms of attendance (everyone in person or a mix of in-person and remote presentations). Panel proposals should include contributions from at least two different countries, be gender inclusive, and include not more than one contributor from a single faculty, department or school.

While the Communication History Division will not be accepting submissions for a Research Escalator session, we plan to organize informal session(s) of mentorship for students and early career scholars. All students and early career scholars accepted in the CHD program will be contacted at a later stage to inquire about their interest in participating in an informal mentorship program.

Deadlines for submissions

 Authors should submit papers and panel proposals to the Communication History Division online at the ICA website no later than 1 November 2024 at 12 noon EST.

Early submission is strongly recommended to avoid any technical issues since the deadline is firm. ICA will send acceptance/rejection notices to submitters by mid-January 2025.

All the submitters should follow the General Conference Submission Guidelines (https://www.icahdq.org/general/custom.asp?page=ConfSubmissionGuidelines), providing clear and step-by-step information on how to submit your work.

Top Papers and Promising Research Award

- Top papers and top extended abstracts (“Promising Research) will receive recognition awards at the group’s business meeting. Top student papers and Tier B-C countries participants might also receive a fee waive and travel funding awards. To be eligible, student authors must indicate their status: please identify your paper as a student paper when submitting it through ScholarOne, and not within the body of the paper itself. To be considered for any award, the author must be a member of the CHD.

 Reviewing

- If you’re not already part of our reviewer community, please volunteer! Peer-review is the foundation of our academic mission. If you are submitting work it is especially important that you consider serving as a reviewer: We encourage advanced graduate students to volunteer to review submissions along with established scholars. Be sure to indicate your willingness to review on your ScholarOne account (create an account if you are new to ICA). We do our best to match the three or four papers that on average you are asked to review to your own research interests. The Division is very grateful to all who serve in this important way and will grant a Top Reviewer Award that will be presented at the group’s business meeting.

For more info: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CommHistory_CFP

Public Relations Inquiry (special issue)

Deadline: October 17, 2024

This special issue aims to foster productive, interdisciplinary conversations between scholars across media and communications who have an interest in the influence of public relations (PR) and other promotional industries on struggles over rights, inequalities and social justice. Interest has grown in the importance of PR and promotion for both dominant groups and activist movements resisting domination and promoting social change. Interdisciplinary research – drawing on, for example, critical race theory, queer theory, feminism, political economy and cultural studies – has provided new ways of interrogating the power exercised by promotional industries in these contexts and extended our thinking far beyond functional deconstructions of organisational practice in the global North and West.

We invite papers that engage critically with PR and other promotional industries, tools and practices, as well as the ambivalence that promotion introduces both for those who claim rights and recognition, and for those who try to preserve their own power and privilege.

More details can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/pri/publicrelationsinquiry

April 3–5, 2025

University of Oregon Portland

Deadline: December 2, 2024

whatis.uoregon.edu

What is Research? (2025) will bring together scholars to explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.

The thirteenth What is…? gathering delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

Scholars, government and community officials, scientists, artists, students, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, public sector and industry professionals, and the public are invited to collaborate. Proposals that take a transdisciplinary perspective are especially encouraged, drawing on insights and methods from multiple fields to shed new light on research processes.

Presentations / panels / experiential installations may include these topics (as well as others):

• How does research and creative scholarship emerge from inquiry? How do they impact society?

• What are relationships between theory, method, and practice in research?

• What are qualitative, quantitative, multimethod, multimodal, participatory & arts-based approaches?

• What influences research design and data analysis?

• What are issues involved in validation (e.g., reproducibility, replicability, and cross-validating)?

• What are various modes of collaboration and how can they be organized?

• What are some considerations in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research?

• How are integrations of natural & artificial intelligence with quantum computing affecting research?

• What are environmental considerations of developments in machine learning & large data centers?

• How is research disseminated? How does it effectively engage publics and inform policy-making?

• How are ethics imbricated in research and how can researchers conduct work with integrity?

• What are benefits and challenges of compliance (e.g., privacy, security, review boards)?

• How can research address global challenges (e.g., health, inequality, poverty, climate change)?

• How is research used to drive solutions-based approaches and what are the challenges involved?

• How does research in academia differ from research in industry and/or community?

• What are the obstacles involved in translating findings into action?

• What issues are involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion in research?

• What are criteria and implications of various forms of research funding?

• How are meta-analyses and systematic reviews engaging human-machine collaboration?

• How can research education be integrated into teaching and learning, and how are next generations of researchers being trained?

Conference Organizers: Janet Wasko and Jeremy Swartz (University of Oregon)

Send 150-200 word abstracts for papers / panels / experiences by DECEMBER 2, 2024, to:

Janet Wasko,  jwasko@uoregon.edu

University of Oregon Portland, 97211

 October 9, 2024 (from 4pm to 5pm)

MS Teams

This YECREA-Ask the early career scholar- meeting is organised to share experiences regarding how to get published while working interdisciplinary within the field of Communication Studies and Aging Studies. This will be facilitated by two early career scholars who have experience with publishing in a variety of journals and conferences: Dr. Cora van Leeuwen and Daniel Blanche-Tarragó.

Link to the event: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_M2I0ZDljZmItM2Y3NS00ODg1LTkxODEtMTk0Y2E1Yzk3MWMx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22695b7ca8-2da8-4545-a2da-42d03784e585%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228d6fb0a8-11cd-41dc-af80-522cea843720%22%7d

 About emma, the European Media Management Association:  

Since 2003, emma has been shaping the future of media management. As a European not-for-profit, we drive innovation in media management research, education, and practice.

Stay updated at media-management.eu!

Upcoming emma Events:

#emmahub 2024 – Media Management and Migration - - Applications are open until 7th of October (deadline extended!) 

Join us in Berlin for an engaging workshop on Media Management and Migration, focusing on media-making by and for diasporic communities. Hosted by Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, #emmahub offers a space to reflect on emerging trends and innovations in the media industry.

Date: November 13-15, 2024

Location: Berlin, Germany

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#emmarome 2025 – Empowering Media through Sustainable and Human-Centered Innovations

Experience the emma Annual Conference in the heart of Rome! Held at Luiss Business School, this conference will explore how sustainability and human-centered innovation can transform the media landscape, considering environmental, economic, and social dimensions.

Date: June 3-5, 2025

Location: Rome, Italy

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#emmasummerschool 2025 – Doctoral Summer School

A unique opportunity for doctoral researchers in media management! Hosted by imec-SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the emma Doctoral Summer School offers an international setting for knowledge exchange between students, scholars, and industry experts.

Date: September 2-5, 2025

Location: Brussels, Belgium

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University of Zurich 

The Media Change & Innovation Division (Prof. Dr. Michael Latzer) at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich invites applications for two open positions at the postdoctoral level: 

Postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). Start of employment: January 1, 2025 (or upon agreement). Two-year contract.

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). The start date will be determined based on the candidate's availability. The duration will be agreed upon, with a minimum commitment of 2 months. 

The division’s research program focuses, among other things, on the societal implications of digitalization and the internet, algorithmic selection and artificial-intelligence (AI) tools in everyday life, dataveillance and privacy, governance of media change, religion-like digitalization and implicit everyday religion, cyborgization, digital inequalities, and digital well-being (see https://www.mediachange.ch/research/ for an overview of our current research projects and https://mediachange.ch/publications/ for the division’s recent publications).  

Further information and application details:

Postdoctoral researcher: 

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/postdoctoral-position-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/2cce0f6a-5e70-4c0d-b330-c2941aa9d47a 

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/short-term-visiting-researchers-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/fbe39727-27ee-4153-92a9-3c01b931435f 

Review of applications starts immediately, but the positions will remain open until qualified candidates are found. 

Please contact Dr. Noemi Festic (n.festic@ikmz.uzh.ch) or myself, Dr. Daniela Jaramillo-Dent (d.jaramillo@ikmz.uzh.ch) for questions.