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Call for papers: Moving Image Remains: On the Refusal to Disappear
/in Media Studies News /by Chantal29–31 January 2026 | Goethe University Frankfurt
Paper deadline; 27 July 27 2025
Absence dictates what we know, presence what we forget. In the realm of film and media the rediscovery of neglected fragments, traces of unfinished projects and suppressed narratives offer a powerful means for unsettling dominant accounts. For instance, early cinema materials long suggested an absence of Black intimacies on screen. In 2017, however, a nitrate print was discovered at the University of Southern California’s film archive.