CFP - Workshop "A New Italian Political Cinema?" and Conference "Contemporary Italy on Screen" 29-30 April 2011, Adelaide, South Australia Workshop: A New Italian Political Cinema? & Conference: Contemporary Italy on Screen *Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 29-30 April 2011* Key-note speakers Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo will be speaking on Women at Work:Issues of Job (In)security in Contemporary Italian Film Films discussed include Francesca Comencini's Mi piace lavorare-Mobbing [Mobbing] (2003), Wilma Labate's Signorina Effe [Miss F] (2007), Ada Negri's Riprendimi [Good Morning, Heartache] (2008) and the documentaries Silvia Ferreri's Uno virgola due [One Point Two] (2005) and Tania Pedroni's Invisibili [Invisible] (2002). All of these films assume a gendered perspective that draws attention to the veiled prejudices against women in the workplace, a social space where they continue to come up against a long tradition that renders motherhood and work in the public sphere incompatible. The workshop and conference will examine the nature of contemporary Italian cinema (early 1990s to present day), with a view to: 1) analysing the nature of its politicization (or lack thereof); 2) establishing patterns within filmic representations of socioeconomic and political issues in Italy; and 3) identifying the factors affecting the attempts of filmmakers to explore societal problems in their work. These events are part of a wider international project supported by an award made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Research Networking Scheme (www.ahrc.ac.uk<https://red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=ccfa7159f3874af1a0dbafdc55310090&URL=http://www.ahrc.ac.uk>). Research will be disseminated via published volumes of working papers, a collection of essays, and a monograph. For further information, please see: http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/italianpoliticalcinema.html<https://red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=ccfa7159f3874af1a0dbafdc55310090&URL=http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/italianpoliticalcinema.html> Kind regards, Luciana Luciana d'Arcangeli BA, MHRM, PhD, FHEA, FCIL, MITI Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian School of Humanities (room 208), Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 Australia [log in to unmask]<https://red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=ccfa7159f3874af1a0dbafdc55310090&URL=mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/luciana.darcangeli<https://red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=ccfa7159f3874af1a0dbafdc55310090&URL=http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/luciana.darcangeli> Tel. ++61 (08) 8201 2594 Fax ++61 (08) 82012784