1. Cinema-going and Minority Issues in a Conflictual Region: Muslim Audiences in Greek Thrace during the 1960s and 1970s – Mélisande Leventopoulos; Özge Özyılmaz (University of Paris 8; Istanbul Kent University)
2. The More I Research Cinema History, the More Conflicted I Feel About My Identity: Autoethnography as an Introversive Approach in New Cinema History – Barçın Boğaç (Eastern Mediterranean University)
3. Tamil cinema in diaspora: the diasporic experience of cinemagoing in French theatres – Shakila Zamboulingame (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 / EHESS CESAH)
4. Post-Soviet Cinemagoing Experiences in Azerbaijan: The Case of Nizami Cinema Center in Baku – Enes Akdağ (Kadir Has University)

1. Rebel with a Cause? Chinese Audience of Pirated Hollywood Movies (Yining Zhang- Leibniz University Hannover )
2. Hollywood Between Piracy and Subscription: The Curious Case of Mexico (Alejandra Bulla – Leibniz University Hannover )
3. Addressing the Crises of Rural Cinema: Contemporary Mobile Cinemas in Germany (Stefan Dierkes- Leibniz University Hannover) [online]
4. Global Audiences Between Magic and Realism: Conflicting Memories of Disney Classics and Their Live-Action Remakes (Kathleen Loock and Tina Pahnke- Leibniz University Hannover)

1. The Intersection of Diaspora and Cinema Space – Nektaria McWilliams (Oxford Brookes University)
2. Quiet Defiance: Reshaping Gender Norms in Cinematic Narratives During Social Conflict – Aslı Kotaman (CAIS, Bochum)
3. María Félix in 1950s Québec – Nicolas Poppe (Middlebury College)
4. Beyond Conflict: Closing the Distance between Audiences and Spectators – Damini Kulkarni (Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts)

1. Cinema-going in General Government during World War II – Andrzej Dębski (University of Wroclaw)
2. Cinemagoing in Times of War and Defeat: Cinema Culture in 1960s Egypt – Ifdal Elsaket (The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo)
3. Watching war movies after wars: the Soviet cinema-goers’ experience after the Civil War – Elizaveta Zhdankova (Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration unRANEPA)
4. Yakub’un Kuyusu (Le Puits de Jacob): Censorship and Conflict in Early Republican Turkey – Mustafa Türkan (Bahçeşehir University)

1. Women Distributors in Italy: industrial struggles through oral history and archival research – Daniela Treveri Gennari (Oxford Brookes University)
2. Conflicts in the Museum: The Struggles of LACMA’s Film Program as a Site of Institutional Tensions and Public Access – Doug Cummings (UCLA)
3. Why the UFA had a cinema in Mexico City – Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Independent Scholar)
4. Evaluating Law 5224: Circulation and Financial Success of State Funded Films in Türkiye – Adnan Şahin (Bilkent University) [online]

1. Cinemagoing Experience in Mersin During World War II: Güneş Cinema- Senem Duruel Erkılıç ( Mersin University)
2. London Repertory Cinemas, 1970s to 1980s: From Hippy to Yuppie – The Bohemian Electric and Rogue Scala Cinemas’ Revolt against the Mainstream- Karen Smith (Independent Scholar)
3. Multiplexes in Italy: An Historical Survey- Arianna Vietina (Sapienza University of Rome)
4. Changing and Transforming Film Spaces in Cinema – Berceste Gülçin Özdemir (Istanbul University)

1. Open-air cinemas as dream gardens: The Case of Mezitli Municipality’s Summer Cinema – Hakan Erkılıç & Senem Duruel Erkılıç (Mersin University)
2. Public Places as Non-Theatrical Exhibition Sites in the 1980s Video Era in Turkey – Aslı Gön (Başkent University)
3. Lost without a Trace: Cinemas Demolished through Urban Change along Mithatpaşa Street in İzmir, Turkey – Şeyma Sarıbekiroğlu (Izmir Institute of Technology)

1. Behind the Screens: The Danish Cinema License System in Occupied Copenhagen during WWII – Julie Allen (Brigham Young University)
2. On-Screen Assassins in a Country obsessed by its “good image”: Contradictions of a Nation shaped by the armed conflict – Maria Luna Rassa (TecnoCampus Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
3. From Village Cinema to Cinema Programme Army-Prefectures-RNF: Distribution, programming and the role of the army in the dictatorship’s mobile cinema scheme in rural Crete, 1967-1974 – Foteini Klini (University of East Anglia)
4. Cine Floresta, History and Education. A discussion about the historical impact of movie theaters in communities – João Marques (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – UFJF)

1. Modernity and Malay Cinemagoing on the Pages of Berita Filem, 1960–1962- Agata Frymus (Monash University Malaysia)
2. Hatay/Antakya in Early Cinema History: A Frontier, Peripheral, and Unshared City – Olgu Yiğit (Galatasaray University)

3. The Politics of Space: Adult Theaters and the Binary of ‘Perverts’ and ‘Citizens’ in Türkiye – Tuğba Görgülü (Galatasaray University)

1. Fire and Fury from Afar: Espaldas Mojadas (1955) and Chinese-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy – Ling Zhang (State University of New York, Purchase College/ Leiden University) [online]
2. British Imperialism and The Sudan War (1881-1899) in Early Scottish Cinema- Stephen McBurney (Independent Scholar)
3. A Conflict of Conscience: How “Visual Newspapers” Documented American Overseas Interventions, 1898-1902- David Morton (University of Central Florida)
4. Postwar Cinema in the Baltic States: Resilience, Propaganda, and Conflict – Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

1. Remembering Film and Television in an Italian Border Region, 1950-80 – Giuseppe Sampogna (Sapienza Università di Roma)
2. Mohammad Bakri Speaks: JENIN, JENIN and Its Afterlives – Greg Burris (Northwestern University in Qatar)
3. La salle Italienne in Constantinople. Magic society and film trade relations between Italy and Turkey (1914-1927) – Lara Lensi (University of Florence)

1. European Cinema as a Milky Way: Senior Professionals on Changes in the European Film Exhibition Sector Over the Last Thirty Years – Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University) [online] and Jens Van Landschoot (Ghent University, CIMS)
2. All Eyes on Allies: Ottoman Permissions and Prohibitions for Film Presentations According to Cross-National Politics – Zahide Nihan Doğan (Istanbul Medipol University)
3. Black Activism and Soviet Cinema in the Cold War Era: International Circulation and Reception of “The Cranes Are Flying” – Kristina Tanis (HSE University)
4. Green on Screen – Conflicting Portrayals of the Irish – Frank Mannion (Birmingham City University)

1. Taxation, Tensions, and Turmoil: Cinema and Municipal Conflicts in 1970s Adana (Turkey) – Aydın Çam, Çiğdem Aksu Çam (Çukurova University, Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University)
2. “Approved by the Council of State”: The Irresistible Allure of Censorship in 1970s Turkish Cinema – Aynülhayat Uybadın (Sakarya University)
3. Testing the limits: festivals, films, and cinematic struggle in Turkey at the dawn of a new age of censorship (2014-2015) – Josh Carney (Marburg University)
4. The Resilient Journey of Kanun Hükmü (The Decree, 2023) in the Censorship Habitus of the Post-2000 Turkey – Sonay Ban (Independent Scholar)

1. Cinematic Practices within Gallery Walls: Revisiting the Memory of the Gwangju Democratization Movement – Yoojin KIM (Kingston University London)
2. Reconsidering Contentious Histories Through Early Cinema: Çukurova as a Nexus of Conflict, Mobility and Entanglement – İlke Şanlıer (Çukurova University)
3. Long-term readings of Hollywood films viewed in a Texas border town during the 1940–70s – José Carlos Lozano (Texas A&M International University)

1. Film Festivals and War: A Fe-Male perspective (1939–today) – Dunja Jelenkovic (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice & Concordia University)
2. Cinema as Solidarity: The Role of UK Palestine Film Festivals in a Time of Conflict – Yael Friedman and Maryam Ghorbankarimi (University of Portsmouth; Lancaster University)
3. Drawing a map of the circulation of Syrian independent documentary films (2011-2024): understanding the filmmakers’ strategies – Justine Pignato (Université de Montréal)
4. Making Space, Making Stories: Documenting Social Change – Deniz Zorlu (Istanbul Kent University)

1. Curated by the Audience: A Koli Cinema Night; (Lalu Esra Ozban, University of California) [online]
2. Encounter, conflict and spectacle: The case of supporting actors in Turkish film history within the framework of set-going culture – Serkan Şavk, Aydın Çam (Gulf University for Science and Technology and Çukurova University)
3. A Tale through Two Cities: Soviet Movies During the Greek Civil War in Athens and Thessaloniki – Paraskevas Mouratidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
4. Survival of cinemas in areas of urban violence: three cases from the Rio de Janeiro suburbs – Talitha Ferraz (ESPM & PPGCine-UFF)

1. In search of the lost legitimacy. The Mexican Cineteca Nacional (1974-2024) (Ana Rosas Mantecón- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa)
2. Circuits of Resistance and Cinephilia: Film Festivals and Arthouse cinemas in Santiago (María Paz Peirano- Universidad de Chile )
3. Cultural centers, cine-clubs and churches: exhibitions in resistance during the Chilean dictatorship (Claudia Bossay- Universidad de Chile)
4. Curating a people’s struggle: Film festivals in the Araucanía region, Chile (Javiera Navarrete- Independent Scholar ) [online]

1. Decolonizing Distribution in North Africa (Morgan Corriou- Paris 8 University)
2. Fifty Shades of Markets: Everyday Rural Substandard Exhibition in France During German Occupation (Caroline Damiens- Paris Nanterre University)
3. Defying the National Market and Unsettling Identities. The Distribution and Exhibition of Turkish cinema in Post-war Greek Macedonia ( Mélisande Leventopoulos- Paris 8 University)
4. Motion Pictures Against Prejudice: Anti-Semitism, Independent Jewish Cinema and Niche Film Distribution in early 1920s America (Judith Thissen – Utrecht University) [online]

1. Screening Nazi films in the Holy Land (Kajsa Philippa Niehusen – Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)
2. From Private Screens to Public Memories: The Post-War Exhibition of Eva Braun’s Home Movie (Aleksandra Miljković – Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)
3. From Propaganda to Testimony: The Westerbork Film and Its Afterlife in Documentary Cinema (Fabian Schmidt- Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)
4. Zones of Interest — From Hitchcock to Glazer (Thomas Helbig- Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)

1. Mobile Cinema and Community Building in Rural Jamaica (Rachel Moseley-Wood – The University of the West Indies) [online]
2. South Asian film in Trinidad and Guyana (James Burns- Clemson University)
3. Film Distribution and Exhibition throughout The Bahamas Family of Islands- 1920 – 1960 (Monique Toppin-University of the Bahamas)
4. Asian Film Exhibition in Suriname (1930s—1970s) (Thunnis van Oort- Huygens Institute)

1. Repercussions of Conflict: The Distribution and Reception of Film Company of Ireland Films during the War of Independence (Denis Condon- Maynooth University)
2. Cutting Free: The Fraught Introduction of National Film Censorship to the Irish Free State, 1923-24 (Veronica Johnson- Maynooth University)
3. Ciné-Culture in a Time of Crisis: The Irish Film Society during WWII (Ellen Scally- University College Cork)
4. The Impact of Censorship and Regulatory Conflict on Northern Irish Workshop Films (Tadhg Dennehy – University College Cork)

1. Facing imperialism: The cinematic face and imperial interpellation in British Boer War film exhibition – Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal (University of St Andrews)
2. A Country Torn Apart: American Politics and Audience Responses to Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ (2024) – Peter Krämer (De Montfort University)

1. Watching an Interactive Film with a Child: The Kid Viewing Experience – Ayşe Dilan Salkaya (Istanbul University)
2. The Negotiated Identity of Children’s Film: The Conflict Between Adult Desire and Child Audiences in Early Swedish Cinema- Taichi Niibori (Stockholm University) [online]
3. Democracy for the Beginners: Film and Education – Presentation of an Extracurricular Programme (Ivana Šešlek- Restart (Dokukino) [online]