The upcoming AIM Annual Meeting and International Conference will take place in Mirandela on 13–15 May 2026, at the School of Communication, Public Management and Tourism (EsACT), Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Cruzeiro Campus), in partnership with the Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CITeD). We invite scholars and researchers who study the moving image from various perspectives to submit their proposals in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Submissions received until 8 January 2026 will be peer-reviewed by the conference scientific committee. Notification of the accepted proposals will start in February 2026. Submit your proposal now!

Keynote speakers:

Julio Arce, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Julio Arce is Professor and former Chair (2016-2024) of the Department of Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has conducted pioneering studies on the interactions between music and media, with special interests in music and broadcasting, music in silent cinema, popular genres and media, the representation of sexuality in the Spanish cinema of the transition, and the exchanges of music and musicians between Spain and Latin America. He was vice-president of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SIBE) and president of the commission for Music and Audiovisual Languages of the Spanish Society of Musicology. He was also a visiting professor to several universities, such as the U of California Los Angeles, U of Buenos Aires, the University Alberto Hurtado (Santiago de Chile) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales EHESS (Paris).

Yvonne Zimmermann, Marburg University, Germany

Yvonne Zimmermann is Professor of Media Studies at Marburg University, Germany. Her research focuses on the history/historiography and pragmatics of visual media. She has published widely on questions of film historiography and what is now called useful cinema. Among her recent publications are the co-authored book Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures (2021) and the co-edited volumes Films That Work Harder: The Global Circulation of Industrial Film (2024) and How Film Histories Were Made: Material, Methods, Discourses (2024) – all available in open access. She is the editor of a special issue on “Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film” in Early Popular Visual Culture (2021) and a principal investigator in the DiCi-Hub project that explores and implements digital tools and methods in film and media studies.

Dina Iordanova, University of St. Andrews, UK

Dina Iordanova is a film and festival historian. She has published extensively on Balkan and Eastern European cinemas, on the cinemas of the Soviet republics, small national cinemas, and on transnational film industries and film festivals.  A native of Bulgaria, she is Emeritus Professor of Global Cinema at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She also held positions with the University of Texas at Austin, U of Chicago, U of Leicester and the U of Hong Kong and was a visiting professor to various other organisations in Europe and Asia. She regularly serves on film festival juries (e.g. Toronto IFF, Busan IFF, Yamagata DIFF, IDFA, etc.) and works with international film organisations, such as the European Film Academy. 

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  Julio Arce, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

  Julio Arce is Professor and former Chair (2016-2024) of the Department of Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has conducted pioneering studies on the interactions between music and media, with special interests in music and broadcasting, music in silent cinema, popular genres and media, the representation of sexuality in the Spanish cinema of the transition, and the exchanges of music and musicians between Spain and Latin America. He was vice-president of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SIBE) and president of the commission for Music and Audiovisual Languages of the Spanish Society of Musicology. He was also a visiting professor to several universities, such as the U of California Los Angeles, U of Buenos Aires, the University Alberto Hurtado (Santiago de Chile) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales EHESS (Paris).
  

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  Yvonne Zimmermann, Marburg University, Germany

  Yvonne Zimmermann is Professor of Media Studies at Marburg University, Germany. Her research focuses on the history/historiography and pragmatics of visual media. She has published widely on questions of film historiography and what is now called useful cinema. Among her recent publications are the co-authored book Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures (2021) and the co-edited volumes Films That Work Harder: The Global Circulation of Industrial Film (2024) and How Film Histories Were Made: Material, Methods, Discourses (2024) – all available in open access. She is the editor of a special issue on “Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film” in Early Popular Visual Culture (2021) and a principal investigator in the DiCi-Hub project that explores and implements digital tools and methods in film and media studies.
  

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  Dina Iordanova, University of St. Andrews, UK

  Dina Iordanova is a film and festival historian. She has published extensively on Balkan and Eastern European cinemas, on the cinemas of the Soviet republics, small national cinemas, and on transnational film industries and film festivals.  A native of Bulgaria, she is Emeritus Professor of Global Cinema at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She also held positions with the University of Texas at Austin, U of Chicago, U of Leicester and the U of Hong Kong and was a visiting professor to various other organisations in Europe and Asia. She regularly serves on film festival juries (e.g. Toronto IFF, Busan IFF, Yamagata DIFF, IDFA, etc.) and works with international film organisations, such as the European Film Academy.