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Dina Iordanova is the Provost of St. Leonard’s College at the University of St. Andrews and founder of the St. Andrews Centre for Film Studies and its corresponding publishing house. She will be presenting on her work in a plenary presentation at the Second International Conference on the Image, 26-27 September 2011 at the Kursaal Congress Palace in San Sebastian, Spain, held in collaboration with the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Originally from Bulgaria, and having worked later on in Canada, the US and England, Professor Iordanova’s background is in philosophy and aesthetics. She joined St. Andrews as the University’s first Chair in Film Studies in 2004 and led the start of that Department’s dramatic climb up the research league tables to the best score achieved by a department in Scotland in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. She is the founder of the Centre for Film Studies and the publishing house St Andrews Film Studies. After chairing the Film Studies department and serving as a Director of Research for the top performing School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, the University asked her to serve as a Provost of the ancient St. Leonard’s college, with responsibility for doctoral students. More on Dina Iordanova…

Owen Evans is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television in the Media Department at Edge Hill University, UK. He’ll be presenting his plenary presentation at the Second International Conference on the Image, 26-27 September 2011 at the Kursaal Congress Palace in San Sebastian, Spain, in dialogue with the San Sebastian Film Festival.

After completing his BA and PhD in German Studies at Swansea University, Owen Evans worked as a Lektor in the English Department of the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz before his appointment to a lectureship in German at the University of Wales Bangor in 1995. He returned to Swansea in January 2005 to teach in Media, with particular emphasis on Film Studies, before moving to the Media Department at Edge Hill University in February 2011 where he is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television.

His research interests embrace German film, literature and culture, European cinema, autobiography, and the representation of history and cultural memory. He has published on German literature, especially work from the former GDR and autobiography. His most recent monograph is entitled Mapping the Contours of Oppression: Subjectivity, Truth and Fiction in Recent German Autobiographical Treatments of Totalitarianism (Rodopi, 2006). His cinema work includes articles and chapters on topics such as Run Lola Run, The Lives of Others, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, German film comedy, the role of the film festival in Europe, and on the influential British film publication Sight and Sound. More on Owen Evans…

The 2010 Image Conference delegates and plenary speakers will gather together for the conference dinner on Thursday, 2 December at Hollywood’s Musso & Frank’s Grill. The evening will be a chance for delegates to come together over food, wine and conversation.

Since it first opened in 1919, Musso and Frank Grill has been entwined with the history of Hollywood and the film industry. Through the years, Musso’s has always been “the place to be”. From Marilyn Monro and Joe DiMaggio to Charles Bukowski and Janis Joplin, Musso’s has been and still is a gathering spot for artists, innovators, and icons of all trades.

To reserve your place at the dinner, or for more information, please visit the Activities & Extras webpage.

Sean Cubitt will be giving a plenary session, 2 December 2010, at The Image Conference in Los Angeles, USA.

Sean Cubitt is Director of the Program in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture (Comedia/Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Macmillans/St Martins Press, 1993), Digital Aesthetics (Theory, Culture and Society/Sage, 1998), Simulation and Social Theory (Theory, Culture and Society/ Sage, 2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2004) and EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005). (Continued)

What’s the main idea that has motivated your work?

3 of them really: consideration, wonder, and hope

Where or when do you find yourself most productive?

Pretty much anywhere

Who have been your biggest heroes/heroines? And why?

Theodor W Adorno, because he wrestled his demons and never allowed anyone to persuade him that he had beaten them; and Murray Bookchin, for a life lived for the environment that never sacrificed humanity

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Howard Besser is Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation masters degree program (MIAP) at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in New York City. He’ll be presenting his plenary presentation, Image in an Age of Re-Contextualization, at The International Conference on the Image, 2-3 December 2010 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In addition to teaching MIAP courses, he teaches a regular Cinema Studies course on “New Media, Installation Art, and the Future of Cinema” (http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Classes/newmedia08/).  His current research projects involve preserving digital public television (http://www.ptvdigitalarchive.org/), preserving and providing digital access to dance performance (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/arts/dance/20bloo.html and http://www.merce.org/studioandclasses_mm.html), preserving difficult electronic works, issues around copyright and fair use, Do-It-Yourself media, and the changing nature of media with the advent of digital delivery systems. More on Howard Besser…

Also, more on the 2010 Image Conference Plenary Speakers…