Dissemination Activity: Fourth Paper Presentation for VIDEOACT Completed

Şirin presented her paper “Experiences of Migration from Turkey to Germany: The Female Guest Worker in Contemporary Documentaries”  on a panel titled “Claiming History through the Voices of Women: Documentary and Archival Practices by Women in Turkey” at the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference, held in Gdansk from 10 to 14 August, 2022. The presentation explored two documentaries...

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Research Dissemination: Outlawed Images Conference Program Announced!

The program of the Cinematographic and Audiovisual Alternatives: Outlawed Images Conference (Colloque Alternatives cinématographiques et audiovisuelles: Images Hors-la-loi) has been announced. The conference will take place between 1-3 June 2022 in Nice, France.  The conference language will be in French.  I will present work related to VIDEOACT’s context – the tightening grip on film...

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First conference presentation of VIDEOACT completed

Şirin presented the initial findings and observations of her fieldwork for VIDEOACT at the international online conference “Activating Attention: Political Videos on Social Media”, which took place on 20-21 January 2022. Şirin’s panel titled “Videos in Current Protests Movements” included scholars and activists working on protests movements in Syria, Belarus and Palestine.    ...

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Activating Attention Conference Schedule Announced!

The schedule for the Activating Attention – Political Videos on Social Media International Online Conference to be held 20-21 January 2022 has been announced! The conference is organized by the research project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web,” Germany, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation: Jens Eder (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), Tobias...

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International Online Conference: “Activating Attention – Political Videos on Social Media” / January 20 & 21, 2022

Image Credits: Tom Hilton (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en); Original File: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFO_Protest_(31755404714). Speakers: Tina Askanius, Marcus Bösch, Yves Citton, Tom Divon, Şirin Erensoy, Aslı Kotaman, Sandra Ristovska, Sophija Savtchouk, Kerstin Schankweiler, Josepha Wessels, and others. The conference is organized by the research project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on...

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