Deadline for paper proposals: October 15, 2021

Call for contributions to
Tarkovsky Revisited: dialogue between the moving image and the other arts
This symposium is organized by researchers from the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature and CITCEM and will take place on December 16, 2021.

The organization invites submissions of abstracts that aim at a comprehensive and multidisciplinary reflection on the work of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, considering the possible dialogues between his films and the visual arts, as well as literature and music. Considering the importance of Tarkovsky for the history of cinema, we also value perspectives that focus not only on his films, but also on the influence that his work maintains on current cinematographic and artistic practices.

The symposium will feature two keynote lectures by Professors Tobias Pontara (University of Gothenburg), who will focus on the role of music in Andrei Tarkovsky’s films, and Steven Jacobs (Ghent University), from a perspective concerned with the relationship between the fine arts and cinema.

Proposals for communication should be submitted by October 15, 2021, to tarkovskyrevisited@gmail.com.

The presentation text and respective proposed topics for discussion can be seen in full
here
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The event will be conducted in English.

Venue
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (with simultaneous broadcast via Zoom)

Organization
CITCEM– Center for Transdisciplinary Research “Culture, Space and Memory
ILCML – Margarida Losa Comparative Literature Institute

Organizing Committee
Andréa M. Diogo (Queen’s University of Belfast/FLUP; CITCEM)
Joana Isabel Duarte (FLUP/Universitat de Lleida; CITCEM)
João Paulo Guimarães (University of Porto, CEEC Junior Researcher; ILCML)