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. Projecting Resistance: War, Trauma, and the Politics of Palestinian Documentaries – Tuğçe Kutlu (Ankara University)
4. 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, School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Laboratory of Historical and Cultural Research)

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. 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)

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. Survival of cinemas in areas of urban violence: three cases from the Rio de Janeiro suburbs – Talitha Ferraz (ESPM & PPGCine-UFF)
4. Lost without a Trace: Cinemas Demolished through Urban Change along Mithatpaşa Street in İzmir, Turkey – Şeyma Sarıbekiroğlu (Izmir Institute of Technology)

1. Wartime opportunities: International distribution of Argentine cinema in the early 1940s – Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt (University of Georgia)
2. Behind the Screens: The Danish Cinema License System in Occupied Copenhagen during WWII – Julie Allen (Brigham Young University)
3. 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)
4. 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)

1. 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)
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. Curated by the Audience: A Koli Cinema Night; (Lalu Esra Ozban, University of California)
5. The Politics of Space: Adult Theaters and the Binary of ‘Perverts’ and ‘Citizens’ in Türkiye – Tuğba Görgülü (Galatasaray University)

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 Intersection of Diaspora and Cinema Space – Nektaria McWilliams (Oxford Brookes 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. Cinema as a space of encounter – A case study on Grupo Estação – Helena Zimbrão (Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF))
2. DO NON-SPACES EXIST IN CINEMA? – Bianca Pires (Universidade Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, México)
3. 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)
4. Watching an Interactive Film with a Child: The Kid Viewing Experience – Ayşe Dilan Salkaya (Istanbul University)
5. Democracy for the Beginners: Film and Education – Presentation of an Extracurricular Programme (Ivana Šešlek- Restart (Dokukino)

1. Rebel with a Cause? Chinese Audience of Pirated Hollywood Movies (Yining Zhang- Leibniz University Hannover )
2. Cinematic Borders and Cultural Conflicts: Hollywood, Stereotypes, and Ideological Tensions Between Mexico and the United States (Alejandra Bulla Leibniz University Hannover )
3. Addressing the Crises of Rural Cinema: Contemporary Mobile Cinemas in Germany (Stefan Dierkes- Leibniz University Hannover)
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. Modernity and Malay Cinemagoing on the Pages of Berita Filem, 1960–1962- Agata Frymus (Monash University Malaysia)
2. From the “Silent” Tool of Colonialism to the Visual Language of Resistance: Language, Identity, and Struggle in Twice Colonized- İbrahim Öksüz, Melis Yıldızviran (İstanbul Aydın University-İstanbul Esenyurt Universtiy)
3. Hatay/Antakya in Early Cinema History: A Frontier, Peripheral, and Unshared City – Olgu Yiğit (Galatasaray University)
4. The Negotiated Identity of Children’s Film: The Conflict Between Adult Desire and Child Audiences in Early Swedish Cinema- Taichi Niibori (Stockholm 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 (Özyeğin 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)
2. Screening World Peace: Israeli-Palestine Conflict at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival towards the End of the Cold War- Jindriska Blahova (The Department of Audiovisual Theory and History, Film and TV School of the Academy for Performing Arts, Prague)
3. British Imperialism and The Sudan War (1881-1899) in Early Scottish Cinema- Stephen McBurney (Independent Scholar)
4. A Conflict of Conscience: How “Visual Newspapers” Documented American Overseas Interventions, 1898-1902- David Morton (University of Central Florida)

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

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)
4. A Country Torn Apart: American Politics and Audience Responses to Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ (2024) – Peter Krämer (De Montfort University)

1. Yakub’un Kuyusu (Le Puits de Jacob): Censorship and Conflict in Early Republican Turkey – Mustafa Türkan (Bahçeşehir University)
2. Film in Chains: Investigating the Backstage of Local Censorship Through Police Archives in the interwar France – Nataliya Puchenkina (University of Caen)
3. No Other Land: Cinema, Censorship, and the Struggle for Palestinian Solidarity in Germany – Şirin Fulya Erensoy (University of Groningen)
4. Beyond Conflict: Closing the Distance between Audiences and Spectators – Damini Kulkarni (Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts)

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. Film Festivals as Spaces of Identity-Formation, Cultural Contestation, and Resistance – Deniz Zorlu (Istanbul Kent University)

1. Cinema as a Place of Conflict and Struggle: The Cases of Istanbul, Izmir, Giresun and Zonguldak – Mehtap Özsoy (Giresun University)
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. Cinema and Conflict in Wartime Istanbul – Özde Çeliktemel (Boğaziçi University)
4. A Tale through Two Cities: Soviet Movies During the Greek Civil War in Athens and Thessaloniki – Paraskevas Mouratidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

1. Postwar Cinema in the Baltic States: Resilience, Propaganda, and Conflict – Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)
2. ‘Look for the Japanese Flag’: The Russo-Japanese War, audience reception, and race discourse – Nadi Tofighian (Linnaeus University)
3. Facing imperialism: The cinematic face and imperial interpellation in British Boer War film exhibition – Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal (University of St Andrews)
4. The Cairo cine-club in the context of its cultural moment (1968-1974) – Ahmed Refaat (Independent Scholar)

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. 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. Cinematic Cultures and Resistance: The Cinematheque of MAM-RJ and Its Art Cinema Circuit During the Brazilian Dictatorship (Bianca Pires-  the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
5. Curating a people’s struggle: Film festivals in the Araucanía region, Chile (Javiera Navarrete- Independent Scholar )

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. 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)

1. Mobile Cinema and Community Building in Rural Jamaica (Rachel Moseley-Wood- he University of the West Indies)
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)