The Centre for Film Studies at the University of Essex, UK, is pleased to announce the international conference Beyond the Cold War: New Directions in Soviet, Central and Eastern European Cinema Studies. This conference, featuring a range of distinguished speakers, aims to offer both a survey and a critical, reflective assessment of the broad range of new and emerging approaches to the study of cinema under the conditions of State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2010.