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What becomes of film once it leaves the cinema? How do moving images work in settings beyond the classical dispositive of the public screening – in the home, the scientific laboratory, the classroom or in public spaces? And how does technological change – particularly the emergence of digital photography and the proliferation of network communication – affect the shape and uses of moving images?

Based on a conception of moving image culture that exceeds and challenges the established methodological frameworks of cinema studies, this Graduate Research Training Program examines a wide variety of configurations of film including, and beyond, the classical cinema space. Twelve doctoral students and two postdoctoral fellows per cohort will study these different aspects of moving image culture with the input and under the supervision of fifteen established researchers in an interdisciplinary setting, addressing topics in film and media studies, philosophy, musicology and literature.
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“Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence” by Laliv Melamed
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Open Access Publication: “Guantánamo Frames” by Rebecca Boguska
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“Migrating Through the Web. Interactive Practices About Migration, Flight and Exile” by Nicole Braida
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Open Access Publication: “Die ‘filmende Bäckersfrau’ Elisabeth Wilms – Amateurfilmpraktiken und Gebrauchsfilmkultur” by Alexander Stark
Kolleg event
29.10.2022 • 14:00 – 16:00
Eisenhower Room 1.314 IG-Farben Building
Marc Steinberg: From the Convenience Store to Netflix: Tracing a Lineage of “Lean Convenience”
Concordia University Professor Marc Steinberg will deliver the closing keynote for the "Platforms and the Moving Image" symposium, titled "From the Convenience Store to Netflix: Tracing a Lineage of 'Lean Convenience'" on October 29 at 2 p.m. (s.t.)

Kolleg event
27.10.2022 • 18:00 – 20:00
Eisenhower Room 1.314 IG-Farben Building
Ishita Tiwary: Streaming Platforms and the Indian Context: Infrastructural and industrial Specifics
The assistant professor at Concordia University Ishita Tiwary will give the opening keynote for the symposium "Platforms and the Moving Image" entitled "Streaming Platforms and the Indian Context: Infrastructural and Industrial Specifics" on October 27 at 6 p.m. (s.t.).
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CfP International Conference “Sticky Films. Conceptual and Material Explorations”
Proposals for papers for the Final Conference of the second cohort are now being accepted.
Date: June 1-3, 2023.
Proposal submission deadline: November 20, 2022.
Kolleg event
11.07.2022 • 18:00 – 20:00
Eisenhower Room 1.314 IG-Farben Building
Abigail De Kosnik: Imagining Futurity through Fandom and Piracy
The public online talk by our Mercator Fellow Abigail De Kosnik will take place on Monday, July 11, 2022.
Kolleg event
27.06.2022 • 18:00 – 20:00
Eisenhower Room 1.314 IG-Farben Building
Michelle Cho: ’RM for President’: Rethinking Soft Power in the Era of K-populism
The public online talk by our Mercator Fellow Michelle Cho will take place on Monday, June 27, 2022.
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Open Access Publication: “Who Owns the Images?” by Sylvie Lindeperg and Ania Szczepanska