CULTMED project associate Jaka Primorac, PhD, participated in the annual international scientific conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), held this year at Lusofona University in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference took place from 18-21 June 2025, and this year’s thematic focus was ‘Discovering/Uncovering. Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media’. The conference brought together several hundred scientists from around the world. In addition to plenary presentations by Ulrike Rohn, Lee Grieveson, and Antonio Preto, plenary and parallel sessions were held, as well as a doctoral workshop.
Dr. Jaka Primorac participated in the panel entitled ‘Pathways to Sustainability for Small European Film Markets: Balancing Industrial Goals with Cultural and Public Good Objectives’ that presented the results of the CresCine project, and which also included Prof. Jakob Isak Nielsen and Dr. Marius Øfsti from the University of Aarhus. Dr. Primorac gave a presentation entitled ‘Audiovisual Platforms and the Limits of Market Structures and Policy Responses in Europe’s (Digital) Periphery’. IRMO is a partner organisation of the CresCine project (2023-2026) that is coordinated by Lusofona University in Lisbon.
Dr. Primorac also participated as a moderator and commentator in the session entitled ‘Film Festivals in the Post-Yugoslav Space as Spaces of Memory Discovery, Navigation, and Migration’, which presented the results of the bilateral project MEMPOP of the University of Rijeka and the University of Ljubljana.
The conference program is available at the following link.
More about the European Network for Film and Media Studies (NECS) can be found here.
More about the CresCine project on the website.
