Na sequência do Encontro Ciência 2016, e no ano em que celebramos os 50 anos da criação da JNICT e os 20 anos da criação da FCT, é com renovado entusiasmo que desafiamos as Unidades de I&D a participarem no Ciência 2017. Este encontro anual destinado a toda a comunidade científica visa promover a discussão dos principais temas de actividade científica e tecnológica em Portugal e está agendado para os dias 3 a 5 de Julho no Centro de Congressos de Lisboa.

Com o apoio do Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, o Encontro Ciência 2017 é promovido pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia em colaboração com a Agência Nacional de Cultura Científica e Tecnológica Ciência Viva e a Comissão Parlamentar de Educação e Ciência.

O Encontro Ciência 2017 abrangerá um amplo leque de áreas e temas que incluem vários dos principais desafios científicos, tecnológicos e sociais que orientam a actividade da comunidade científica em Portugal. Contamos com a vossa participação na construção do programa do encontro.

Assim, convidamos cada Unidade de I&D a submeter até três comunicações para apresentação no encontro. Dada a natureza abrangente deste encontro, as propostas de comunicações (título, breve resumo e autores) devem ser preparadas para serem acessíveis a uma audiência cientificamente informada mas não de especialistas de cada tópico específico.

As Unidades de I&D também podem participar no Ciência 2017 através de demonstrações de atividades de I&D. Além disso, como no ano passado, os estudantes de doutoramento serão convidados em breve a apresentar os seus projectos de investigação sob a forma de posters digitais.

As contribuições devem ser submetidas, de acordo com o formato simples do formulário disponível em http://www.encontrociencia.pt/2017/propostas/index.asp?id_unidade=212&unid=77733D74 até 15 de maio.

Estamos certos que com a colaboração de todos conseguiremos que o encontro deste ano seja mais uma boa oportunidade para discussões frutuosas e celebração da Ciência.

Luís Magalhães (Comissário do Encontro Ciência 2017)
Paulo Ferrão (Presidente da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
Alexandre Quintanilha (Presidente da Comissão Parlamentar de Educação e Ciência)
Rosalia Vargas (Directora da Agência Nacional Ciência Viva)

Comemorando os vinte anos do festival e a sua 21ª edição, os Encontros Internacionais de Cinema, Televisão, Vídeo e Multimédia AVANCA 2017, que se realizam entre 26 e 30 de julho, encontram-se com inscrições abertas.
Exibindo e premiando obras de longa e curta metragem, de ficção, documentário, animação e vídeos de caráter experimental, distinguindo atores e autores, este ano o AVANCA 2017 reserva dois prémios que, de forma inédita,  procuram premiar duas faixas alargadas da idade em que os autores têm normalmente mais dificuldade em produzir as suas obras.
Assim, pela primeira vez o Festival de Cinema AVANCA irá atribuir um prémio para um realizador com menos de 30 anos e que tenha obra selecionada no festival, premiando ao mesmo tempo um cineasta com mais de 60 anos que igualmente veja o seu filme na competição oficial do festival.
Assim, poderá submeter a sua obra até 30 de abril de 2017, após consulta do regulamento e preenchimento da ficha de inscrição.

The call for full papers and book reviews for vol. 2, no. 1 (to be published August 2017) on spatial storytelling is open. Visit: http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/announcement/view/59 <http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/announcement/view/59>

Today, interactive user-oriented narrative is overtaking story structures traditionally linked to linear time-based narrative. Unlike time-based media, which are often single-authored, and presented to its audience, digital space based narrative evolves through user motivated use of the media affordances in different contexts. The user, unlike the audience, co-creates the story while playing it, but also helps in reshaping the media.

For its third issue, the International Journal of Film and Media Arts welcomes contributions in the form of full articles that deal with the theoretical and empirical implications of spatial storytelling for both film and other media. We would particularly like to receive contributions that would focus on:

–  The role of spatial based narrative in the transformation of film form;
–  Case studies on the application of spatial narrative in different media namely those that cross film and videogames;
–  Spatial narrative structures and models;
–  Mix media used of spatial narrative.

*Issue editors*: Manuel José Damásio; Sylke Rene Meyer

Publication schedule
Call for papers: 21 November to *5 May 2017*. Early submission is highly encouraged.
Communication of decision to authors: June
Publication: *August 2017*

Submit paper here: http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/about/submissions <http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/about/submissions>

The International Journal of Film and Media Arts is an online semiannual publication, written in English and Portuguese, promoted by the Center for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT / CIC.Digital) and the Department of Film and Media Arts (DCAM) from ECATI, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal). The IJFMA focuses on all areas of film and media arts research and critique, namely animation, television, media arts, videogames, fine arts, sound and their varied social and cultural forms of expression and materialisation.

The International Journal of Film and Media Arts Volume: 1, Number: 2 (2016) http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/current <http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/current> is now available.

In 2006 /TMG – Journal for Media History/ published the special issue “Cinema in Context”. It contains some of the earliest theoretical reflections on and results of the broad approach of cinema historiography that is currently often labelled as “New Cinema History”. In 2003 an international group of film historians created the platform HoMER (/History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception/). Instead of taking films as the starting point and focus of research, these scholars shifted the agenda to the contexts of film production, distribution and consumption, broadening the perspective to social and economic aspects. Digital data collections and methods (databases, GIS) are often part of New Cinema History research.

Over a decade after the special issue, New Cinema History has developed into a substantial sub field of media history, as is evidenced in series of conferences, research projects and many publications. At the end of 2017 the/ Routledge/ /Companion for New Cinema History/ is expected to appear. The editors of /TMG – Journal for Media/ /History/ view this as a suitable moment to reflect on the question what this broad contextualizing approach has taught us about the cinema history of the Low Countries. Where are the blind spots and lacunae of New Cinema History? Which new research questions have arisen or should be introduced in the current debates? In brief, an evaluation of results and methods, and a prospect to the future research programme of New Cinema History. Contributions can consist of concrete (comparative) case studies or can be more theoretical or historiographical reflections.

*Editors*: Clara Pafort-Overduin (c.pafort-overduin@uu.nl <mailto:c.pafort-overduin@uu.nl>) & Thunnis van Oort (thunnisvanoort@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:thunnisvanoort@yahoo.co.uk>)

*Deadline proposal* (approximately 300 words): 1 June 2017

*Deadline article* (6.000-8.000 words): 1 November 2017

*Publication date*: 1 May 2018

*Language*: Dutch and English

*About the journal*: /TMG – Journal for Media History/ wants to promote research in media history and publish the results of that research. It offers a platform for original research and for contributions that reflect theory formation and methods within media history.//The journal is published online in open access, twice a year. /TMG – Journal for Media History/ uses a double blind peer review procedure: the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, and vice versa. See: www.tmgonline.nl <http://www.tmgonline.nl/>.

The upside: A great project with plenty of scope to pursue personal interests.
The downside: Fees-only studentship (pay your own living expenses), and start date 1 July 2017, full-time only.

Applications are invited for a full-time 3 year fees-only PhD studentship (via MPhil), exploring the publishing of popular history in the 19th century British newspaper. The successful candidate will assess the scale and content of history publishing in newspapers, particularly local newspapers. The project will involve analysis of digitised and non-digitised newspapers, and comparisons with history publishing via magazines and books. Material such as chronologies, news of archaeological finds, dedicated ‘Notes and Queries’-style columns, folklore, dialect and wholesale scholarly transcription of historical sources will be analysed, and case studies selected. Qualitative, quantitative and ‘digital humanities’ methods can be used, according to the student’s interests and skills. The project could also study the writers of this material, and links between newspaper and book publishing.  Director of Studies: Dr Andrew Hobbs.

The project combines the histories of journalism, publishing, provincial literary and scholarly cultures, history as an academic profession, and amateurism versus professionalism. There is scope for the student to pursue personal scholarly interests under these broad headings.

This is an opportunity to realign current thinking on the publishing of history, away from books and towards newspapers and periodicals; to challenge established 19th-century historiography; to contribute to public history, and to explore historical consciousness among ordinary people, beyond the universities and metropolitan salons.

The University of Central Lancashire is close to substantial archival collections related to 19th-century local history and antiquarianism, including the Lancashire Archives, Chetham’s Library (Manchester) and Manchester Central Library. The student will be encouraged to use other relevant archives in the UK and Ireland.
International applicants may apply for the studentship but will be required to pay the difference in tuition fees.  It is expected the successful applicant will commence 1 July 2017.

Application deadline: 30 April.
Email me for further info/informal enquiries: ahobbs2@uclan.ac.uk

Details here (ref: RS/16/14, last project at bottom of page)
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/study/studentships.php