Seminario impartido por Sigrid Leyssen (UCLouvain)
Miércoles 1 de marzo de 2023 a las 18 horas
Sesión híbrida. Salón de actos. Palau Cerveró.
Enllaç Zoom: https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/93689792181
Abstract:
Filmology was founded in Paris in 1946 as the new science of film. Recognizing the pervasive uses of film in wartime propaganda, Filmology wanted to study cinema no longer only as an aesthetic but also as a social and psychological phenomenon, examining its effects on man and society scientifically. Filmology explicitly wanted to be an interdisciplinary project, engaging scientists of a wide variety of human sciences to bring their scientific perspective and expertise to film. It also was decidedly international, and it managed to engage experts from all over Europe to join the research on film.
Very soon after the Filmology association was founded in Paris, it found a particularly rapid institutionalization in Spain. Pronounced as a new academic discipline in 1948 by the minister of education, a first professorship in Filmology was created immediately in 1948 and filled by the Franciscan Fray Mauricio de Begoña. He soon after published the first Spanish textbook in Filmology Elementos de Filmología. Teoría del Cine (Madrid 1953). A Spanish Association of Filmology was created in 1949 (“Asociación Española de Filmología”), with a Barcelona section of the association the year after. In this talk, we look at the variety of people involved in this Spanish early film studies endeavor, especially at the psychologists that founded the Spanish association of Filmology. We try to understand the way scientists have studied the advent of new media in the past, and in particular, what shape and form this could take in mid-20th century Spain.
Bio:
Sigrid Leyssen is a postdoctoral researcher in the history of the human sciences and the history of media. In her work and teaching, she explores how media and science have been intertwined. She works as FNRS postdoctoral research fellow (chargé de recherche) at the Media department (COMU), UCLouvain in Belgium, and is currently Visiting Fellow at the López Piñero Interuniversity Institute in Valencia, Spain. Her current project is called “The New Science of Film: Filmology, Experiment and Animation (1946-1963) (FNRS A 4/5-XH/SC-5320). Here she is investigating the European width of Filmology (an early film studies movement), exploring the history of how scientists have studied the advent and impact of new media. She studies the experiments and research done by filmologists as well as their use of media (with a focus on animation and short film fragments) in these investigations.
Sigrid Leyssen holds a PhD (2017) in History of Science from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, and in Media Studies from the Universität Regensburg. In her dissertation Perception in Movement. Moving Images in Albert Michotte's Experimental Psychology (1881-1965), she pursued a history of moving images used in perception experiments.
Previously, she worked as researcher and lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Media Studies department of the Bauhaus-University Weimar. Before that she has worked at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University; EIKONES (NCCR) Iconic Criticism - The Power and Meaning of Images, Basel University; the Adolf-Würth-Zentrum für Geschichte der Psychologie, Universität Würzburg; Centre Alexandre Koyré – Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, EHESS-CNRS; Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK), Universität Regensburg; the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science MPIWG Berlin; the Maison Francaise d’Oxford, CNRS & Oxford University, and the ICUB-Institute for Research in the Humanites, University of Bucharest.
Selected publications:
Leyssen, S. (2021). Remaking “Michotte”: Reusing and Remaking Moving Images in the History of Perception Research. Isis, 112(2), 315-325.
Leyssen, S. & P. Rathgeber (eds.) (2013) Bilder animierter Bewegung / Images of Animate Movement. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
