University of Southampton CIFR Research Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2016-17
Dear Colleagues, Students and Friends,
Apologies for cross-posting.
The Centre for International Film Research (CIFR) at the University of Southampton is delighted to announce the details of its Research Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2016-17. All the seminars will take place on Tuesdays (with dates specified below), 4pm – 5:45pm, at Lecture Theatre B, Building 65, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton.
All welcome!
7 February 2017:
Professor Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow)
Minnelli’s Madame Bovary (1949): A Test Case for New Disciplines
14 February 2017:
Dr William Brown (University of Roehampton)
Drone Film Theory: The Immanentisation of Kinocentrism
28 February 2017:
Dr Michael Hammond (University of Southampton)
Forbidden Zones: Sex, Death and Slang in the War Nurse Production Cycle of the 1930s
14 March 2017:
Mr. Elliott Nikdel (University of Southampton)
‘What’s on MUBI Tonight?’: Curating the Online Film Experience
21 March 2017:
Ms. Anne Hogan (University of Southampton)
Filming Mothers: A Critique of the Representation of Mothering in Two European Films: Y aura-t-il de la Neige a Noel (D. Sandrine Veysset, 1996) and Ratcatcher (D. Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
25 April 2017:
Professor Mette Hjort (University of Copenhagen)
In Defense of Human Rights Filmmaking: A Response to the Sceptics, Based on Kenyan Examples
9 May 2017:
Professor John Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Idea of ‘Nationality’ and British Film Policy
* For each of the talk, speaker’s bio and paper abstract will be circulated here two weeks in advance of the talk. Stay tuned!
Run by the Film department at the University of Southampton, the Centre for International Film Research (CIFR) is a research centre that provides an interdisciplinary forum for research into film. The CIFR showcases the university’s research excellence while engaging wider communities through public events, visiting speakers and research initiatives.
For details of CIFR’s inaugural event, ‘Border Crossings’, held in July 2016:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/news/2016/07/12-border-crossings-event.page
For more information about CIFR’s research seminar series:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/news/seminars/latest.page
For more information about CIFR members’ research:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/research/index.page
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Dr Ruby Cheung
Lecturer in Film Studies
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
UK
Latest Publication: New Hong Kong Cinema: Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=CheungNew>
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