Introduction
The European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF) is the international forum for the discussion of all things relating to European film and European film culture.
The ECRF was founded in 2000 to bring together scholars working across Film Studies and Modern Languages. Others soon showed considerable enthusiasm for the Forum and it held its first international conference later that year. Other activities followed and the Forum held its first video-linked mini-conference and seminar series in 2001. Now, in 2008, the ECRF has become an international forum of colleagues and friends who welcome new participants in ECRF. The organisation is based at no one university and is seen to be "owned" by all its participants, whereever they might be based.
The ECRF holds a highly successful annual international conference, organized by those interested in European film and European film culture and held at different universities throughout the world, as well as developing other activities, including visiting film speaker events, video linked conferences, public screenings and talks, web-linked discussions, and a range of research projects and publications.
Recent annual conferences have been held in Bangor, Aberystwyth, Bath, Leeds, Northumbria, Swansea, Columbus, Ohio (2007).
Colleagues interested in holding an ECRF conference, or other event, in future years are invited to contact Graeme (Harper) or Owen (Evans) on graeme.harper@bangor.ac.uk or o.evans@swansea.ac.uk.
For more information on the upcoming ECRF conference and the 2007 call for papers then go to the News page. You can also find out which institutions are hosting the future ECRF conferences and information about applying to host further ECRF conferences.
