STUDIES IN FRENCH CINEMA NEWS (December 2009)
1. The Europeanness of European Cinema (June, London)
2. Exploring the Edge of Trauma (May, Chichester)
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1. The Europeanness of European Cinema (June, London)
International Conference
THE EUROPEANNESS OF EUROPEAN CINEMA
4 June 2010 - King’s College London
Keynote Speaker: Thomas Elsaesser
Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Ginette Vincendeau and Dina Iordanova
Opening Speech by Jan Palmowski
CALL FOR PAPERS
Studies in European cinema have often been focused on specific
countries, genres or auteurs. However, there has been, since the 1990s,
a renewed interest in European film as an entity with significance
beyond the sum of its parts. Promoted by the policies in support of the
audiovisual industry set in motion by the Council of Europe and the
European Union, this new interest led to an amplified debate on Europe
and the cinema that is produced and consumed there. Meanwhile, top of
the theoretical agenda, the issue of identity has surfaced as the prime
concern. As the framework shifts from national to transnational cinemas
and concepts such as ‘hyphenated identity’ and ‘double occupancy’ gather
strength, this conference seeks to explore the ongoing
validity of Europe as a reference in film. Papers are welcomed on any
aspect of how European identity might define itself through cinema,
spanning issues of representation, industry and cultural policy. Areas
of interest might include:
- pan-European production and distribution strategies;
- the label ‘Europe’ in film distribution and exhibition, including
festival circuits;
- examples of films that engage with the idea of Europe;
- how particular national cinemas might simultaneously identify
themselves as European;
- the issue of language, dubbing and subtitling;
- and how any of these questions might have shifted historically and
with the advent of
new European initiatives.
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words), contact information and
short bio (max. 100 words) to: [log in to unmask] Submission
Deadline: 5 February 2010
Conference organised by: Mary Harrod, Mariana Liz, Alissa Timoshkina
Film Studies Department, King's College London
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2. Exploring the Edge of Trauma (May, Chichester)
*CFP: Exploring the Edge of Trauma*
*Date: *
13 May to 16 May 2010
*Location:*
West Dean Conference Centre, West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester,
PO18 0QZ
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//The 7th Cultural Intersections International Colloquium, organised by://
* Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK
* Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston University,
London, UK
* Department of Languages and Linguistics, McMaster University,
Ontario, Canada
**Trauma**
Exploring the Edge of Trauma will interrogate the intricate and
wide-ranging ways through which we seek to go over the edge of trauma,
through art, literature, media, therapeutic and social experience, all
of which call for the construction/deconstruction of metaphors and
representations that help or prevent sharing and communicating about trauma.
In an interdisciplinary and international context, the conference will
delineate and discuss some of the rich cultural and social experience
accumulated in this quest, and investigate the
impossibility/possibilities to be fully cognate with and experience the
trauma of others and communicate our own traumas.
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**Panels**
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· Cinema, Trauma and Displacement - convenor: Carrie Tarr, Kingston
University
· Cities of Trauma - convenor: Stephen Barber, Kingston University
· Class Trauma - Francois Nectoux, Kingston University
· The Legacy of Colonial Trauma - Lieve Spaas, Kingston University
· Narrating Trauma - Tamas Benyei, University of Debrecen
· Remediating Trauma - Chris Horrocks, Kingston University
· Responses to Trauma in the Visual Arts - Fran Lloyd, Kingston University
· The Unspeakable: the Language of Trauma - Magda Stroinska, McMaster
University
· Vengeance, sacrifice, catharsis: experiences masculines et feminines -
Anne et Catherine Saouter, Université du Québec à Montréal
· Young People Online: The Internet as a Medium for Trauma and Traumatic
Experience - Julia Davidson, Kingston University
Download further panel information (PDF file)1
<http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/downloads/conference-trauma-panels.pdf>
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**Abstracts**
Submit an abstract (by 5 January 2010)2
<http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/conferences/abstracts/>
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**Previous colloquia**
Publications in the series (PDF file)3
<http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/downloads/conference-trauma-books.pdf>
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Phil Powrie
Professor of Cinema Studies
School of Modern Languages
Jessop West
University of Sheffield
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA
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Studies in French Cinema: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/home.htm
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