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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:07:22 GMT
From: Deniz Gokturk <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ARTS-TALK: Re: "Writing Diasporas" 20-23 September
2000
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Please circulate. Appologies for cross-posting.
Announcement and Call for Papers for an international,
multidisciplinary conference:
WRITING DIASPORAS :
Axial Writers, Plural Literacies, Transnational Imagination
University of Wales Swansea
September 20-23, 2000
... on the role of travelling and translating writers, filmmakers, artists
and
intellectuals in the cultural politics of diasporas and nations.
Main sponsors: the "Transnational Communities Research
Programme" (Economic and Social Research Council UK),
with "Re-inventing Britain" (The British Council & Arts Council
of England).
Details at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm
CALL FOR PAPERS in six strands (deadline: 06.06.00):
"Axial Writers" - Convenor: John McLeod
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"Online Diasporas" - Convenor: Marie Gillespie
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"Marketing Ethnicity" - Convenor: Sujala Singh
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"Transnational Cinema" - Convenor: Deniz Gokturk
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"Performance, Poetry and Song" - Convenor: John Goodby
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"Plural Literacies and Policy" - Convenor: Tom Cheesman
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PLENARY PANELS including:
*Multilingual Community Publishing in the UK
*The Politics of Literary Translation
*Re-inventing Wales? Nation, Migration, Imagination
PLUS workshops for practitioners in cultural policy and
in multilingual community writing and translation,
exhibitions, readings by local and visiting writers,
literally diverse literary/social events...
General enquiries: <[log in to unmask]> or
Fax UK+1792 295710
Transnational Cinema
There is growing interest worldwide in films which visualise experiences of
global
diasporas. Films by and about migrants challenge us to rethink established
notions of
'national cinema'. 'Postcolonial hybrid films' (Ella Shohat/Robert Stam),
or the
'independent transnational cinema' (Hamid Naficy), is labelled 'world
cinema' in video
stores. Like 'world music', this signals the universality of diversity and
mobility. Older,
separatist categories are also still in use such as 'third cinema' or
'sub-state cinema'; but
the space assigned to migrants in the cultural imaginary has been shifting
from
'subnational' to 'transnational'. This strand will explore how experiences
of migration,
dislocation or exile are visualised in cinema, and how processes of
internationalisation
in film production and distribution intersect with the projection of a
transnational
imaginary.
Papers are invited in the following areas:
* Historical perspectives:
Is transnational cinema an invention of the 1990s,
or has cinema been transnational all along?
* Criticism: How is recent Black British film, 'Beur' film in
France,
new German films by young Turks, and migrant cinema in other
European countries received and critically evaluated? Are these
films
re-working popular phantasies of unsettling infiltrations into the
'imagined community'? Or are they projecting imaginary homelands
for diaspora communities?
* Authenticity: Does the ethnic origin or even the gender of the
director matter? How 'independent' are these films?
* Film as 'writing': Does the ethnic identity of scriptwriters
matter?
What differences does the page-to-screen process make in cases of
diaspora novels? How do multilingualism and translation shape the
screenwriting, filmmaking and subtitling processes?
* Film funding and policy: Regional, national and international
frameworks and their impact on transnational film production.
* Audiences, marketing and reception: Do these films address
diasporic audiences, and/or the urban cosmopolitan bourgeoisie? How
can cross-overs from independent to mainstream be explained? What
are the marketing politics of ethnicity and "otherness"? (Possible
examples could include 'Europuddings', new Asian auteurs such as
Wong Kar-Wai, Ang Lee, John Woo, or the recent success of Jackie
Chan in the USA)
* New technologies (satellite television, video, DVD, internet sites
and networks etc.): What is their impact on transnational filmmaking
and reception?
Please submit proposals (400 words) to: Dr Deniz Gokturk, School of Modern
Languages, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK, e-mail:
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Dr Deniz Gokturk
University of Southampton
School of Modern Languages
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Great Britain
Tel: +44 23 / 8059 3407
Fax: + 44 23 / 8059 3288
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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'Axial Writing' Research Project
on diaspora literary/media cultures
(Transnational Communities Programme,
ESRC/Oxford University)
see: http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk
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