The academic event Narrative, Media and Cognition − which this year will have its sixth edition − aims to combine the narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical means that veer it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it sense. The 2021 edition has as host the Higher School of Theatre and Cinema of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon in Portugal in a partnership with the GT Audiovisual Narratives of the AIM-Association of Imaging Investigators on the Move. It will elapse on days 15 and October 16, 2021, in virtual edition.

At the entrance to a new decade of the twenty-first century the artistic landscape is increasingly hybrid and divergent from the norms, by checking for a growing miscegenation of forms, contents and genres. Urge, therefore, to reflect on the existing inter-relationship between the three areas of study of the conference − the narrative, the media/the arts, and the cognition-and contribute with academic theorizing that allows to broaden the reflection on the nature and role of the narrative as the agglutinator element of a new audiovisual praxis. In this sense, the present edition focuses specifically on the varied challenges of artistic topicality, seeking to streamline the multidisciplinary dialogue. A solid theorizing is a privileged factor in the selection of propositions.

There will be a publication with blind review by pairs of articles emanating from this conference. Enrollment at the conference is free, but enrollment is required to be able to attend the sessions.

https://reconfiguracoes.estc.ipl.pt/

Submission:

We see you invite all interested parties to submit 20 communication proposals. Each participant is limited to a communication. Theoretical and theoretical approaches will be accepted.

The summaries of the communications (maximum 400 words) must be accompanied by 5 keywords, 3 bibliographical references and a biographical note of the author (maximum 250 words). Send to Fatima Chinita (chinita.estc@gmail.com) and Abel Jupiter (estc.conferencia.2021@gmail.com)

Topics of possible topics, among others:

• Complex Narrative Structures, non-linear and fragmentary.
• Self-reflexivity, metalepse, ekphrasis, diegetic levels.
• Diegetic Narration.
• Personages and diegetic universes.
• Time and space in the narrative.
• Film writing methodologies.
• Film essay writing, webdocumentary.
• Autobiography, self-portrait, and autofiction.
• Transmedia storytelling.
• Cinema adaptation.
• Television Seriality.
• Television Seriality.
• Narrative and new media.
• Narratives in streaming and new display / exhibition formats.
• Narrative interactive.
• Design, figures, and narrative structures in videogames.
• Narrative as cognitive structure.
• Relation between media and cognition.
• Fashion of narrative and altered states of consciousness.
• Mechanisms of reception and creation of narratives.

Orders invited:

• Jane Alison-University of Virginia,
• Jens Eder-University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany.
• Marina Grishakova-University of Tartu, Estonia.
• Miklós Kiss-University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
• Nitzan Ben-Shaul-University of Tel-Aviv, Israel.
• Jason Mittell-Middlebury College, USA.

Calendar:

April 12 (Monday)-Date limit for submission of abstracts.

May 12 (Wednesday)-Notification of acceptance.

July 7 (Wednesday)-Date limit for enrollment at the conference (free).

Dates of the conference: 15-October 16, 2021.

ORGANIZERS

Fatima Chinita, IPL -Higher School of Theatre and Cinema.

Maria Guillmina Castro -Portuguese Catholic University, the School of Arts, Research Center for the Science and Technology of the Arts.

Jorge Palinhos, IPL -Higher School of Theatre and Cinema.