<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="" size="4">Eisenstein for the Twenty-first Century</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="">21-22
June 2018, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span></span></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><br></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Marking the 120<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein’s birth, this international symposium will
examine the legacy of the revolutionary Russian director and film theorist and
his continuing relevance to contemporary screen studies. Over the last two decades,
our understanding of Eisenstein’s oeuvre and aims<a name="_GoBack"></a> has
been reshaped by publications and translations of his previously unpublished
major theoretical writings (<i>Metod, </i>Musei
Kino, 2002; <i>Notes for a General History
of Cinema</i>, Amsterdam University Press, 2016; </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The Primal Phenomenon: Art</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="">, Potemkin Press, 2017), while critical engagement with his creative work has
been expanded through exhibitions of his drawings and unfinished film projects.
New archival research has demonstrated the extent of Eisenstein’s
interdisciplinary work and his informal networks of collaborations with artists
and scholars from around the world.<span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><br></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">This symposium,
supported by the Australian Research Council and the Arts Faculty and School of
Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, offers scholars a forum in
which to assess and chart new directions for research on Eisenstein’s heritage
in the light of the current theoretical challenges and technological advances
in film studies.<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The symposium program
will include: a round-table with Naum Kleiman (Moscow); keynote papers by Professor
Ian Christie (London), Professor Joan Neuberger (Austin), Professor Antonio
Somaini (Paris); and an audio-visual presentation by Adrian Martin and Cristina
Álvarez López (Vilassar de Mar). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">We
invite proposals for papers and audio-visual presentations that explore
Eisenstein’s work from any of the following perspectives:<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">New publications and translations of
Eisenstein’s texts<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">New perspectives on Eisenstein’s
films<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Eisenstein and the
visual arts </span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Eisenstein, philosophy
and politics </span><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Eisenstein’s writings and media
archaeology<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Eisenstein’s legacy and new
approaches to montage<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Eisenstein, cinema and the brain:
affect, cognition, embodied perception<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Gender and sexuality in Eisenstein’s
writings, films and drawings <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Einstein’s theory-and-practice and
intermediality<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Eisenstein, new media and the rise
of the audio-visual essay<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Mythologizing Eisenstein: Eisenstein
as a subject of biopics<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Eisenstein’s circle: formal and
informal networks of collaborations<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Please send an abstract of 200-250
words with a brief biographical note (150 words) to the symposium convenor, Dr.
Julia Vassilieva (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:julia.vassilieva@monash.edu">julia.vassilieva@monash.edu</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">), <b>by the 1<sup>st</sup>
of January, 2018.<span></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Prato
is close to several of Europe’s most significant cities and esteemed
institutions – thirty minutes from Florence and the European University
Institute in Fiesole, one hour from Bologna – home to Europe’s oldest
university, two hours from Rome, and three hours from Milan. La Fondazione
Cineteca di Bologna traditionally runs “Il Cinema Ritrovato”
festival in the last week of June. For more information on Monash University
Prato Centre please see: <a href="http://monash.it/">http://monash.it/</a><span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"> </font></span></p><div>Julia Vassilieva</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dr Julia Vassilieva</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Film and Screen Studies</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">School of Media, Film and Journalism</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Caulfield Campus, B 4.27</span><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Monash University</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Victoria 3145</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">AUSTRALIA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13px">ARC Research Fellow</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">DE 160101138 </span></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><a href="mailto:Julia.Vassilieva@monash.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Julia.Vassilieva@monash.edu</font></a></div><div>Tel 99032203</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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