October 8.9 - 15.16, 2020

[Reframing the Institution]

Film Criticism across Media and Politics

International Online Workshop

hosted by University of Udine

Organized byPRIN - Progetti di Ricerca di rilevante Interesse Nazionale (Prot. 2017XB2Y7B) “A Private History of Italian Film Criticism. Public Roles and Private Relations: the Institutionalization of Film Criticism in Italy from The 1930s to 1970s”

Università degli Studi di Parma - Università di Bologna - Università degli Studi di Udine

Oct 8

Theory & Criticism

Oct 9

Culture(s) & Politics

Oct 15

Gender & Technology

Oct 16

Infrastructures & Networks

This workshop comes as a methodological Kickstarter of a 3-year national project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, dedicated to the Institutionalization of Film Criticism in Italy from the 1930s to 1970s. Even though the project's primary focus is on the Italian case, the workshop aims at exploring the broadest international perspectives, while emphasizing theoretical and critical keywords and frameworks.

The Speakers

[Melanie Bell]

University of Leeds


[Claudio Bisoni]

Università di Bologna

[Francesco Casetti]

Yale University

[Monica Dall'Asta]

Università di Bologna

[Roberto De Gaetano]

Università della Calabria

[Mattias Frey]

University of Kent


[Malte Hagener]

Philipps University Marburg

[Vinzenz Hediger]

Goethe University Frankfurt


[Eric Hoyt]

University of Wisconsin-Madison


[Roy Menarini]

Università di Bologna


[Masha Salazkina]

Concordia University


[Haidee Wasson]

Concordia University



The Venue

Università degli Studi di Udine / University of Udine

“Reframing the Institution” is an online-workshop hosted by University of Udine. The University of Udine is a university in the city of Udine, Italy. It was founded in 1978 as part of the reconstruction plan of Friuli after the earthquake in 1976.


Let us know if you'll be attending!

“Reframing the Institution” is an online-workshop hosted by Università degli Studi di Udine.

The talks and roundtable are delivered through ZOOM platform.

In order to get the ZOOM links, please send an e-mail at: princritics@gmail.com