The International Association for Media and History

Seeking co-presenters for a panel at the 2012 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting
Location: Denver, Colorado
Date: November 17-20, 2012

That the First World War helped create the future of the Middle East is more than a mere tautology; the war is considered by many to be *the* pivotal episode in the formation of the modern Middle East. Yet, as the centennial of the war approaches, it behooves us to also consider how the nations and peoples of the Middle East have remembered and looked back upon the war. Consequently, this panel seeks to understand what the First World War has meant to the Middle East in retrospect. Paper submissions are requested on any aspects of remembrance of the war in one or more countries of the Middle East or North Africa. Papers may focus on national or grassroots perspectives, public or private spaces, communal or individual recollections, the memorialization of particular events or broader re-imaginings of the past, or any combination therein. The focus of the panel will be refined in response to the nature of the proposals received.

Please send paper abstracts of 300-400 words to pherozeu@gmail.com by no later, and preferably earlier, than *February 5th, 2012*.

Thank you,

Pheroze Unwalla
PhD Candidate
Department of History
School of Oriental & African Studies
University of London

CINEJ, Vol. 1 No. 2, May 2012

CINEJ Cinema Journal is a peer-reviewed semi-annually published international cinema journal. It is published by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Cinema is the art of reminiscences and of storing, losing, finding, extracting, and re-visioning memory.

The history of cinema is full of films, directors, and movements firmly cemented in our collective unconscious, reminding us of memories that are lost, hidden, about to disappear, struggling to keep alive, and ready to come back again.

Films reflect our lives through our version of the truth through what we repress or prefer to remember.

Cinema helps to expand the boundaries of our memories. Remembering and forgetting and including as well as excluding our lived experiences are ways of coping with life-long effects of our early years and adolescence and our grief over lost loves. Our senses of ourselves as we remember our lives often conflict with what may have been suppressed. The cinematic journey in the history of humankind is about understanding the history of society and individuals and of repressing and remembering memories. The temptations to hide and forget and to bring back and expose are the major themes of this issue.

Some of the topics can be found below:

- Cinema and Social Memory
- Return of the Repressed: Films forgotten by film history
- Film Criticism and the Audience Memory
- Confrontations with the Past: The New Political Film
- Writing History with TV Series
- Hollywood/Green Pine Resurrected: The Remakes
- Personal History: Rites of Passage
- Cinema/City/Memory
- Witnesses of History: Documentaries
- Father/Memory/Rebellion
- My Beautiful Psychobiography: Filming Personal History
- Cinema and Social Archetypes
- Archive/Restoration/Nostalgia

Deadline for papers is April 1, 2012.

Please send a copy of your article to Murat Akser at masker@khas.edu.tr and also create your cinej account to upload your article for evaluation purposes. Please refer to this link for Author Submission Guidelines:

http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/about/submissions#onlineSubmission

Call for Papers: Small Cinemas, Promotion and Reception

Timisoara, Romania, 1-3 June 2012

Organizing Institution: Center for Eastern European Film and Media Studies, West University of Timisoara, Romania, contact email: ceefms@gmail.com

Plenary Speakers: Dina Iordanova, Professor of Film Studies and Provost, St. Leonard’s College, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK; Janina Falkowska, Professor of Film Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

The third annual international conference, Small Cinemas, brings together scholars and professionals from around the world to discuss the regional, national and international reception and promotion of small cinemas. We are interested in papers focusing on the status and the particularities of small cinemas’ audiences, film criticism, film scholarship, governmental support, festival participation, marketing strategies, and media outlets. The conference organizers understand the notion of “small cinemas” to be fluid and plural, including both documentary and fiction, from the cinemas of small nation-states to the small “postage stamp” films of mobile devices; from the cinemas of ethnic and religious minorities to the productions of minors and so-called “minor” authors.

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