DICIS Activities

DICIS will concretize the goals set above by organizing topical open access seminars on particular issues in relation to DH and cinema studies, initiating regular collaborative publications and facilitating the international mobility of experts.

The DICIS network wants to keep the organization of the meetings as open, flexible and fluid as possible, leaving the structure of the seminars, the organization, planning, onset and goal open for interpretation by a designated moderator or curator.

Forthcoming Activities

CFP: Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

18-19 October 2019, Ghent, Belgium

Aiming to explore a wide range of approaches, this conference invites contributions that engage with current methodological challenges and opportunities in Film Studies
Past Activities

Conference: Rethinking the Attractions-Narrative Dialectics: New Approaches to Early Cinema

9-10 November 2018, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

This conference seeks to both critically reflect on the continued use of the concepts of attraction and narrative in our accounts of early cinema and to pursue new avenues for exploring this period

Workshop Methods (10): Cinema-going in the Arab World

14-15 September 2018, Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Cairo, Egypt

A two-days workshop on film exhibition, distribution, and cinema-going audiences in the Arab world

Workshop Methods (9) Curating and Sharing the Data of Media History

29 June 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Workshop by Prof. Eric Hoyt (University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director of the Media History Digital Library, USA) on curating and sharing different data sets on media history, organized in the context of the HoMER/NECS Conference, sponsored by DICIS.

Conference Panel: The digital turn in Belgian and Dutch film and cinema historiography

25 May 2018, Leuven, Belgium

This DICIS panel session brings together recent, ongoing and future research projects in the field of digital film and cinema studies in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Workshop Methods (8): Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption in the Second World War

15-16 May 2018, KU Leuven, Belgium

A Workshop on Data Collection and Analysis, Computational Methods and the Opportunities for Comparative Research

Public Lecture (3): Mattias Frey on Film Criticism in the Digital Age: Past, Present and Possible Futures

31 October 2017, Ghent, Film-Plateau, Paddenhoek

Public lecture by Dr Mattias Frey (University of Kent, UK) on how digital technologies have had profound effects on both the film and publishing industries

Workshop Methods (7): John Sedgwick on comparative film programming analysis

1 June 2017, Ghent, Korte Meer 11, V2

One-day workshop by Prof. John Sedgwick (U of Portsmouth), one of the leading historical film economists, on doing film programming analysis from a comparative perspective.

Public Lecture (2) Jeff Klenotic on space and place in communication and media-history

14 March 2017, Ghent

This talk will focus upon how digital methods might alter/inform our historical understanding of communication technologies

Workshop Methods (6): Jeff Klenotic on GIS and cinema studies

15 March 2017, Ghent

One-day workshop by Prof. Jeff Klenotic (U of New Hampshire) on the use of GIS for cinema and film studies

WORKSHOP METHODS (5): Cinemetrics

11 October 2016

This workshop is a one-day DICIS event on statistical film style analysis.

PUBLIC LECTURE (1): Yuri Tsivian on statistical film style analysis

10 October 2016

Prof. Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago) gives a public lecture on statistical style analysis

WORKSHOP METHODS (4): Historical Network Research

16-17 March 2016

This workshop is a two-days closed DICIS event concerning Historical Network Research

WORKSHOP METHODS (3): Cinema Context

25-26 Februari 2016

This workshop is a two-days closed DICIS event around the Dutch “Cinema Context” project

CONFERENCE: Turning The Page

12-14 November 2015, Ghent University

Digitalization, Fan Magazines and Historical Audiences Studies’ Conference. Conference on movie magazines and the influence of digitalization.

WORKSHOP METHODS (2): Data Linkage & Sharing

22 June 2015, University of Glasgow

DICIS is organizing a workshop at the Fifth HoMER Conference.

CONFERENCE An international comparative study on cinema spaces, film programming and cinema-going experiences in Belgium and Mexico

23-27 March 2015, University of Antwerp

5-day workshop on film exhibition, film programming and cinemagoing at the University of Antwerp

WORKSHOP: How can digital cinema history matter more?

27 June 2014, Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studio

WORKSHOP METHODS (1): Comparative Approaches to moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception’

19 June 2014, Catholic University of Milan

Launch & Board meeting DICIS

18 June 2014, Catholic University of Milan

WORKSHOP METHODS (4): Historical Network Research