
Conference program
Day 1 – 28 June (Saturday)
11:00 – 11:30 | Opening Remarks by Fabio Bego, Nezih Erdoğan and Patrícia Nogueira
11:30 – 12:30 | Panel 1 – The Short Film: Affect and emotions at the margins of cinema
Chair: Nezih Erdoğan
Yiğit Armutoğlu – An "Other" In The Academy: The Academic Neglect Of Short Films In Turkish Film Studies
Mihaela Constantinescu – When Form Follows Issue: Aesthetic Responses to Urgency in Short Films
12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30 | Panel 2 – Emotions in the face of permanent social and political crisis
Chair: Fabio Bego
Yayu Zheng – Passion and Exhaustion: Charting Resistance from Below in The Memo
Merve Nur Özçelik – The Price of Escapism: Doom Spending in Expendable
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 | Artist Statement
Chair: Fabio Bego
Peter Spence – Waterlands: Divergence and Rupture in the Archive
17:00 – 17:30 | Roundtable Discussion
Day 2 – 29 June (Sunday)
10:30 – 12:00 | Keynote Presentation
Andreea Mihalcea - Emotional Reels: The Affective Politics of Short-Form Propaganda
12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 | Panel 3 – Trauma, Memory, and fear of repetition
Chair: Nezih Erdoğan
İlker Özçelik – Two Worlds in 10 Minutes: Emotional Divide through Caruth’s Trauma Theory in Bosnian War Cinema
Aynaz Ghaderi Ghalehno – Voices of Fear: Women in Patriarchal Short Cinema (Online)
15:00 – 16:00 | Panel 4 – Affective Memories Between Home and the Diaspora
Chair: Patrícia Nogueira
Anabela Oliveira – The House: Memories, Generational Conflicts, Gestures and Objects
Ana Sofia de Almeida – Navigating Mnemonic Fragments from the Portuguese Diaspora Between On/Off-Screens and Affective Intervals
16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 | Artist Statement
Chair: Patrícia Nogueira
Joanna Zielinska-Oktem – border(line) disorder – video installation
17:30 – 18:30 | Closing Remarks