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SCSMI2017 Helsinki

The annual conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) welcomes you to the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 11th – 14th, 2017

SCSMI2017 Helsinki program is under construction and changes are to occur. Meanwhile you may complete your personal information with a photo and some tags, so the other attendees and speakers will get to know more of you and your interests, and vice versa.

Go to registration or check practical information about accommodation etc. at http://scsmi2017.aalto.fi/

Peter Turner

Oxford Brookes University
United Kingdom

PhD student completing my thesis on priming, self-consciousness, personal imagining and allegiance in the diegetic camera horror film.

Bio: Peter Turner is an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University where he teaches on a range of Film Studies undergraduate modules. He is nearing completion of his PhD thesis which, led by a cognitive theoretical framework, is investigating the aesthetic, technological and psychological strategies used in diegetic camera horror films. He has delivered papers at Cine-Excess VIII and the SCSMI conference in 2015. He is also the author of a monograph on The Blair Witch Project as part of Auteur’s Devil’s Advocates series.

13:15 EEST

KEYNOTE Dr. Julia Vassilieva. Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria’s collaboration and third culture debates. Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Julia Vassilieva

09:30 EEST

SPECIAL FILM EVENT "Woman with an Editing Bench" by Dr. Karen Pearlman A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Karen Pearlman

11:00 EEST

SP Marcelo Bertalmio and Albert Pascual. Reclaiming the creative techniques of ﬁlm cinematography A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Marcelo Bertalmio

11:30 EEST

SP Colin Burke, Lene Heiselberg, Katalin Balint and Brendan Rooney. Narration alone or accompanied by acted events in a historical documentary: Exploring cognitive effort and emotional arousal using measures of... A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint

14:00 EEST

SP Fernando Canet. Long-term relationship with characters in TV series: the ﬂuctuating engagement with antiheros A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Fernando Canet

15:00 EEST

SP Kata Szita. Movies on Smartphones: The Physiological Effects of Screen Size, Physical Connection, and the Active Environment A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Kata Szita

16:30 EEST

LP Robert Blanchet. The misunderstanding of “understanding”: Empathizing with ﬁlm characters on the level of action and motivation A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Robert Blanchet

09:30 EEST

LP Eliot Bessette. Fear without Empathy and Empathy with Fear A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Eliot Bessette

13:00 EEST

LP Douglas MacArthur, Javid Sadr and Aaron Taylor. Accounting for Acting: Generating and Recognizing “Reality Effects” in Film Performance A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Aaron Taylor

14:30 EEST

SP Anne Wabeke. The Antihero as 'one of ourselves' A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Anne Wabeke