The preliminary conference program for the upcoming NECS 
Conference has been released. This year’s annual conference “Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory” takes place in Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-23, 2012 and is hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra.
Film Festival Research again has a strong presence at NECS 2012. Here is a list of the announced panels, workshops and papers dedicated to film festivals:
Thursday, 21st June 2012, 09.00 – 10.45 (Session A)
A10. POWER OF PROGRAMMING: FESTIVALS, IDENTITY AND POLITICS
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- Dunja Jelenkovic (Versailles): Role of Politics in Selection of Film Programs – Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival in the Time of Wars of 1990s
- Ger Zielinski (Trent): On Affect and Memory Traces Circulated in and around Identity Film Festivals
- Maria-Paz Peirano (Kent): Reconstructing films and social memory in a film archive festival: The case of the “Festival Internacional de Cine Recobrado” of Valparaíso
- Cindy S.C. Chan (Houston): Café Lumière (2003). Taiwanese Identity between Japanese Cinema and International Film Festival
Thursday, 21st June 2012, 11.00 – 12.45 (Session B)
B10. FILM FESTIVALS AND THE INDUSTRY
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- Sumanta Barua/Finola Kerrigan (London): Importance and Facilitators of Networking in International Film-festivals
- Marijke de Valck (Amsterdam): Film Business, Festival Business: The Growing Influence of Industry Partners
- Minerva Campos (Madrid): Film Festivals’ Memory: Festivals Trademark in “Video on Demand” websites
Thursday, 21st June 2012, 13.45 – 15.30 (Session C)
C10. KEY FESTIVAL CHALLENGES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
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- Dorota Ostrowska (London): International film festivals as descendants of universal exhibitions
- Laura Rodríguez Isaza (Leeds): Touring the Film Festival Circuit: Migrating Patterns of Latin American Cinema
- Aida Vallejo Vallejo (Madrid): Festival Dependencies. Documentary, Europe and the Crisis
- Gavin Wilson (York): Cell Cinema Festivals: Showing, Sharing and Exhibiting Mobile Phone Films
Friday, 22nd June 2012, 09.00 – 10.45 (Session E)
E10. ACADEMICS AND FESTIVALS: ON THE FLOW OF LABOUR, EXPERTISE AND INFLUENCE BETWEEN
Workshop – Film Festival Research Workgroup
- Chair: Skadi Loist (Junior researcher, University of Hamburg, Germany, Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg)
- Greg de Cuir, Jr. (Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade; Managing Editor, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies)
- Gavin Wilson (York St John University, UK, former cameramen, writer, sector manager Screen Yorkshire)
Friday, 22nd June 2012, 11.00 – 12.45 (Session F)
F10. FILM FESTIVALS
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- Przemyslaw Suwart (Weimar): Programming Film History at Film Festivals
- Christel Taillibert (Nice): Film Festivals and Digitization of Motion Picture Films
- Julian Stringer and Nikki J. Y. Lee (Nottingham): Counter-Programming and the Udine Far East Film Festival
Saturday, 23rd June 2012, 09.00 – 10.45 (Session I)
I8. HOW BRITAIN LEARNED TO LOVE EUROPE: BRITISH TELEVISION AND EUROPEAN FILM CULTURE, 1982-1996
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- Justin Smith (Portsmouth): British television and European film co-production policy
- Rachael Keene (Portsmouth): Channel 4’s Visions: a European style of film programme?
- Laura Mayne (Portsmouth): From Cannes to Berlin: Examining the importance of film festivals in promoting Channel 4 films in Europe
- Anne Woods (Portsmouth): No Cannes Do