Animation: Academic News & Reports

MOME Anim presents KISKAKAS, the annual screening event of the animation department of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest on November 27, at 9 pm at the Toldi Cinema in Budapest.

The Department of Film, Animation, and Video in the Division of Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design invites applicants for a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to commence fall 2020.

Our Zippy Frames correspondent Eliane Gordeeff reports from Lisbon and the 31st Society for Animation Studies Conference.

Download the conference proceedings of the Twisted Dreams of History Conference

Applications are sought for the 2-year Master course at Vold University College, Norway.

Call for papers open for the 31st SAS Conference in Lisbon (17-21 Jun 2019).

Aesthetic Interferences: The Stop-Motion Technique in the Animation Narrative book project has opened for Indiegogo crowdfunding support.

KCL University professor Christopher Holliday argues that computer-animated films constitute a genre in their own right in his new book, The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style, and Genre.

Estonian animator and scholar Ülo Pikkov successfully defended his PhD thesis on Eastern European Animation.

Paul Wells headed the international programme of the 5th Animafest Scanner Symposium (5-6/6) at the 2018 Animafest Zagreb festival.

The edited book by Stefanie Van de Peer won the award for best edited book from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.

The complete programme for the Propaganda, Ideology and Animation, with Theo Ushev as a guest and panels of animation professionals all over Europe.