




Sonic Media Culture: Theory and Analysis – How do we account for the sonic aspects of media culture? How useful are concepts such as “soundscape” and “sound design”? – What are the acoustic equivalents to “imagination” and “vision”? How do we “envision” the future and the past in acoustic terms? – What are the legacies of linguistics, semiotics and other theories of language for film and media studies? – How can film and media studies integrate the insights from sound studies, musicology, rhetoric, and acoustics? – How can film and media studies integrate concepts such as “multi-modality” and insights from psychology?

Politics, Identity, Memory – How do language boundaries impact on global media flows? – How does language relate to the production of national identity and cultural memory, particularly in screen media? – How do questions of language impact on notions of “Europeanness”? – How do we account for the politics of minority languages in post-national cinemas and digital media practices? – How culturally and linguistically specific are film festivals? How do they shape the global map of media flows, particularly in terms of language?

History – How do current models of media history account for text, language and sound? How should they be modified? – How has the question of language shaped media production and film and television production in particular? – How do we account for the practices of dubbing, sub-titling, multi-language versions and polyglot films? How do such “impure” practices figure in the history of film? – How have certain aspects of media culture and film history been marginalized because of language issues?

Production Practices – How do global digital networks redraw the linguistic maps of media production and media circulation? What, in particular, is the contribution of polyglot video platforms such as YouTube? – Which films and programs travel (i.e. find audiences beyond their territory of origin), and why? – How do we account for practices of adaptation, remaking, writing for screen, and criticism?

Aesthetics – How is stardom dependent on language and the performance of speech? What is a “voice talent”? – What is the relationship of body and voice in contemporary media culture? How has this relationship evolved? – How has the relationship of body, voice and space evolved (as in voice-over, voice-off)? – How do we account for aspects such as tone, intonation, rhythm at the level of language/dialogue and sound more generally? – How do speech, music and sound relate to the visual? – What is the relationship between language and gesture and voice and gesture? – How do we analyze the spatial simulation of voices and voice-elements in digital spaces?




There are four ways of participating in the London conference: (1) by individually organizing a pre-constituted panel within an already existing network such as a NECS work group (see member section of the NECS website - or a research project. The members of the NECS work groups are especially encouraged to put together a preconstituted panel; (2) by organizing a panel via the NECS website ( Those who consider putting together a panel outside already existing networks or work groups are asked to send a call for papers with a title and a short description of the objectives of the proposed panel no later than December 15, 2010 to The conference committee will post these topics in the public section of the website, collect all responses and keep you informed about potential presenters; (3) by responding to a call for papers that is proposed online (see item 2); (4) by proposing an open call paper outside a pre-constituted panel.







Conference attendance is free, but valid NECS-membership is required to participate (register with NECS at For the terms of NECS membership, please also refer to our website).

Founded in February of 2006, NECS, the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, brings together scholars and researchers in the field of cinema, film and media studies with archivists and film and media professionals. A first NECS workshop was held in Berlin on the occasion of the network’s founding in 2006, followed by large international conferences in Vienna 2007, Budapest 2008, Lund 2009 and Istanbul 2010. Over the last three years, NECS has attracted close to 1.000 members worldwide.

For the conference organizers:

The NECS Conference Committee Tina Bastajian, Melis Behlil, Aurore Fossard, Paulo Granja, Olof Hedling, András Bálint Kovács, Tarja Laine, Terez Vincze, Patrick Vonderau

The NECS Steering Committee Malte Hagener, Vinzenz Hediger, Dorota Ostrowska, Alexandra Schneider, Patrick Vonderau


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