SAS Symposium 2018: Animation and Philosophy

An academic symposium at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and FMX 2018 in collaboration with the Society of Animation Studies, the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, the Institute of Media Studies at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, the AG Animation and the Literaturhaus Stuttgart. Due to the high number of quality submissions...

Call for papers: ANIMATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM 2018 (APES 18) 

APES 18 invites ground-breaking research on a plethora of areas associated to animation practice and public engagement, to offer an alternative view of the capabilities of animation and to identify new terrains in the connection of animation and the engaged public. APES 18 follows on from previous year’s highly successful symposium and this year will be taking place on Tuesday 22nd May 201...

29th Annual SAS Conference, 2017

29th Annual International Society for Animation Studies Conference 3-7 July,  2017 Hosted by Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) Conference Chair: Marco Bellano Download Conference Programme: http://sas2017.beniculturali.unipd.it/web/ The 2017 annual conference theme “… And Yet It Moves!” theme invited delegates to focus on the nature of animation, by suggesting that m...

2017 Annual Conference to be held at Padova University

“… And yet it moves!”, was the response of Galileo Galilei, a former professor at the University of Padova, after he was forced to reject the idea of an Earth spinning around an unmoving Sun. In 2017, more than 380 years later, those words will come back to title the 29th Annual Conference of the SAS-Society for Animation Studies, held at the same institution where Galileo taught: one of th...