An International Symposium of the Framing Media Research Group (Austrian Science Fund, Project 20349) Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria June 9-10, 2009 How do modern media define themselves? This is one of the central questions that our symposium tries to trace by focusing on what has become the largest, best-documented study of the recent past: the emergence ...

For more information on the Lucerne International Animation Academy in December 2009 please visit http://europe.animationstudies.org/index.php?id=85,0,0,1,0,0 The SAS Europe link section has also been updated: http://europe.animationstudies.org/index.php?id=86,0,0,1,0,0

EXCHANGE FORUM "PERSPECTIVES FOR ANIMATED FILM" DRESDEN - KIEV 16 TILL 23 APRIL 2009 Call for Bids Filmfest Dresden and Goethe-Institut Ukraine offer young European filmmakers the unique opportunity for an international exchange within the framework of the 21st Filmfest Dresden. The objective of this programme is to give up-and-coming talents the opportunity for building up international coopera...

Animation and Automation 26 - 27 March 2009 The University of Manchester and Lancaster University Conference Co-organisers: Jackie Stacey (RICC, Manchester) and Lucy Suchman (CSS, Lancaster) The aim of this symposium is to examine the relationship between Animation and Automation by bringing into dialogue two already highly interdisciplinary areas of scholarship: film studies, including new med...