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 Film Studies: The Marginalization of the Short Film 

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: TBA

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

Peter Spence – Waterlands: Divergence and Rupture in the Archive

17:00 – 17:30 | Roundtable Discussion

10:30 – 12:00 | Keynote Presentation

Andreea Mihalcea 

12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00 | Panel 3 – Trauma, Memory, and Postcolonial Silence

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 

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

Joanna Zielinska-Oktem – border(line) disorder – video installation

17:30 – 18:30 | Closing Remarks