Necs Information

NECS is a platform for exchange between scholars, archivists and programmers. You are invited to register as a member and to help the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies become a reality. Become a NECS member and register on this website today! With the foundation of NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies - we are pursuing multiple aims: By providing opportunities for the presentation of new research publications, conferences, research networks, workshops, we want to stimulate new developments and create a public for new concepts and ideas which will secure our discipline a place as an innovative engine of the humanities. By stimulating the participation of young scholars and researchers we hope to create the next generation of film studies. By fostering exchange across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries we want to deepen and intensify co-operation in order to make truly comparative work possible. By providing a platform on which research networks can build we hope to make international co-operation a daily routine of our trade. Our aim is the integration and prosperity of Europe and its cinema(s) without limiting the scope of our activities to European cinema and media. We will not exclude anybody on national or institutional grounds, but we are open to anybody with an active interest in the study of the European cinema, both theoretical and historical. We especially wish to include spaces still marginal to the cultural, economic and political exchange in Europe, like Turkey and Russia, but also states from the former Eastern block who have not yet become members of the European Union. Furthermore, we want to put special emphasis on the growing multicultural and multiethnic composition of European states as well as on the strategic proximity of the nations around the Mediterranean. For several reasons, we consider it important to adhere to the form of the "learned society": we want to keep up a level of scholarship, act as referees for research projects and function as an ...