GKA ARTS 2020 VIRTUAL | October 1-2, 2020
2nd International Conference on Arts and Cultures in collaboration with the Universidad de Cádiz

Highlighted Theme
Cinema as subversive art: avant-garde, resistance and rearrangements
When defining the work The cinema as a subversive art of the Austrian-born film critic Amos Vogel, the II International Conference on Arts and Cultures uses the same title of this work as a reference, not to limit itself to those desires or tastes of Viennese by censored films for its disturbing content and with explicitly sexual or violent images, but for seeing in the cinema, in addition to the above, an inciting, answering, transforming, avant-garde and critical art. In short, it is to appreciate from the beginning of the cinema its competences to be art and its capacity as a catalyst for socio-cultural changes, at national and international level.
Together with the discussion of the thematic subversion of the medium in front of other artistic ways, the editions against ideologies and aesthetics will be evaluated, which also appear in a cinema that exchanges or manipulates our conscious and unconscious, demystifies visual taboos and modifies the visions of existing values and institutions. In turn, the technological forms will be analyzed, including the new digital and virtual configurations that the cinema has used to represent and question science, politics, philosophy, modern art, among others.
Within all the above, in addition to film productions, other manifestations born in the heat of this art will be included, such as the video clip, video games, video art, net-art, among others.
Scientific Coordination
Universidad de Cádiz
The University of Cádiz is a public university of the autonomous community of Andalusia in Spain. Founded in 1979, it currently offers 61 degrees and has become one of the highest institutions in the province of Cádiz, playing an essential role in its economy, given its open, cosmopolitan nature and its Atlantic projection welcomes students from five continents with important exchange agreements with Spanish-American, English, Russian and African universities. It is also part of the Erasmus European Program. The University of Cádiz has 20,798 students, 1,698 professors and 2680 administration and services professionals. The university has four campuses: Bahía de Algeciras, Jerez de la Frontera, Puerto Real and Cádiz. In the latter is the Rectorate and the oldest Faculty of the UCA, that of Medicine, as well as the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences.
Director científico permanente

Dr. Rafael Cabrera Collazo
Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo cuenta con un doctorado en Historia de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y ostenta el rango de Profesor Titular de Historia en esta misma institución. Ha sido profesor invitado en universidades de Cuba, México, Italia, Portugal, España y Colombia, en las que ha ofrecido seminarios sobre semiótica y Tecnologías en la Educación, siendo sus áreas de especialidad e investigación. En estos momentos, participa en varias redes académicas de investigación relacionadas con los estudios sobre representaciones de medios de comunicación de masas.
Es miembro de comités científicos editoriales de universidades en España, Colombia, Argentina y República Dominicana. Integra asociaciones profesionales nacionales e internacionales de historiadores y estudiosos de las ciencias sociales y la Tecnologías en la Educación, siendo dos de ellas la Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores, de la que fue socio fundador y Presidente entre 2001 y 2004, y la Sociedad Internacional de Tecnologías en la Educación, con sede en Madrid, fungiendo en este momento como el Director Científico de su comité ejecutivo.
En cuanto a publicaciones, tiene tres libros como coautor y uno en solitario que lleva por título Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la crítica al desarrollismo muñocista, 1950-1960. Cuenta con otras colaboraciones acerca de la historia cultural del cine, y la sociabilidad y la manipulación de medios masivos de comunicación, publicadas en revistas y artículos de libros especializados
Miembros del comité
- Olga Kolotouchkina, Universidad CEU San Pablo, España.
- Ismael López Medel, Azusa Pacific University, EE.UU.
- José Carlos del Ama, Central State Connecticut University, EE.UU.
- Manuel Pinto Teixeira, Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa, Portugal.
- Wilma Arellano Toledo, INFOTEC-CONACYT, México.
- Sergio Ferreira do Amaral, Universidad de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brasil.
- David Caldevilla Domínguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.
- Marcos A. Vélez Rivera, Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico, EE.UU.
- Ana Beriain Bañares, Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, España.
- Hipólito Vivar Zurita, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.
- Ignacio Blanco Alfonso, Universidad San Pablo CEU, España.
- Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, España.
- Javier Ares Yebra, Universidad de Granada, España.
- Jesús Ángel Sánchez Rivera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.
Conference Program

Prof. Óscar Lapeña Marchena, PhD – Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)
Perfiles cinematográficos el personaje de Espartaco: el resistente multiusos
Professor of Ancient History at the Cádiz University (Spain), since 1996. Doctor in Ancient History since 2001. Teaching experience in History, HUmanities and Classical Philology. His basic research line are the relationship between Cinema and History, in particular, Ancient History. He is researcher responsable for the HUM-1206 group “Imagen y Memoria: miradas transversales entre la Historia y los Medios Audiovisuales”. He is the autor of the books El Mito de Espartaco. De Capua a Hollywood (2007), Guida al Cinema Peplum (2009), and Cinco perspectivas sobre el Mundo Antiguo y los géneros cinematográficos (2020, in press). Editor of Cine y Eros (2017), and El cine va de viaje (2019), as well as co-editor of El poder a través de la representación fílmica (2015), and Imagining Ancient Cities in Film. From Babylon to Cinecittá (2015).

Prof. Ana Panero, Ph.D. – Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland)
Interpretaciones de la mujer subversiva: el caso de Gradiva en el cine, la literatura y la fotografía
PhD cum laude in Information and Communication Sciences. Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado 2013) – Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Bachelors degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bachelors degree in Publicity and Public Relations, Master degree in Communication and Art – Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research is focused on media analysis, marketing, contemporary art and gender as a cultural construction. She worked in the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid, Spain) and in Dorset College (Dublin, Ireland). Her work has been published in various research journals and international conferences. She is currently a Lecturer in Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland) and an active member of the research groups “Arte, Arquitectura y Comunicación en la Ciudad Contemporánea” (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and “Imagen y Memoria” (Universidad de Cádiz )
Highlighted Sessions

La última tentación de Brian: de la subversión del cine bíblico a la reflexión posterior
Miguel Dávila Vargas-Machuca
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía

La frustración fílmico-dialectal almodovariana: un análisis de la intraducibilidad subersiva en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar en la década de los 80
Jordi Macarro Fernández
Université de Lille

Estética entre Oriente y Occidente: el eurasianismo como movimiento modernista
Javier Ares Yebra
Universidad de Vigo (Spain) and Academia de Artes y Ciencias de la Comunicación (Argentina)
Key Dates
CALL FOR PAPERS | |
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1st CFP: until December 9, 2019 | |
2nd CFP: until February 17, 2020 | |
3rd CFP: until May 18, 2020 | |
FINAL CFP: until September 14, 2020 |
REGISTRATION |
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Speaker (early): until September 14, 2020 |
Speaker (final): until September 21, 2020 |
Attendee: until September 20, 2020 |
Proposal submission
Next deadline:
September 14, 2020.
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Submit your proposal
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Prepare your presentation
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Submit your article
Speakers may submit an article for publication (at a discount) in a GKA indexed book or journal, as assessed by the scientific committee. Download the template and see the guidelines at this link.
Registration
Before registering, check the frequently asked questions and our cancellation policy.
Speaker (Early)
- Until September 24, 2020.
Speaker (Final)
- Until September 30, 2020 (subject to availability).
Attendee
- Until September 30, 2020.
Article publication
- Speakers may add to the registration the submission of their full article for publication in a GKA’s book series or indexed journal (as assessed by the scientific committee).
Young Researchers’ Scholarships

Marta Mitjans Puebla
Universidad Abat Oliba CEU
Spain

Eleonora Voltan
Universidad de Málaga/Università degli Studi di Padova
Spain/Italy