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International Interdisciplinary Conference
TRANSMISSION: CINEMA / PSYCHOANALYSIS
University of Cambridge, 16-18 September 2008
This conference will bring together academics, graduate students, artists
and film practitioners. It will be comprised of both academic papers and
film screenings, and is linked to the 2008 Cambridge Film Festival.
Cinema and psychoanalysis have often been thought to share parallel
histories that are characterised by processes of mutual transmission, from
the transferral of psychoanalytic scenarios into the cinematic frame to the
translation of psychoanalytic concepts into film theory. To some extent
transfixed by each others representational and interpretive practices, both
psychoanalysis and cinema have witnessed, mirrored and, in some cases,
elicited reciprocal transformations. In recent years, however, these
transactions have come to be criticised as acts of contamination and
corruption, so that transmission has been recast in negative terms as
transgression or transfiguration. But is the transplantation of
psychoanalytic discourse into film and film theory really defunct, and is
that capacity for mutual transformation absolutely lost? What, then, are the
possibilities and conditions of transmission across, between or beyond
cinema and psychoanalysis? What are the histories of that transference and
what might its future trajectories be? Can cinema to transform a Deleuzian
concept be understood as a psychoanalytic mode of thought?
Highlights include:
Tuesday 16 September
OPENING EVENT evening film screenings and drinks reception at CRASSH
Wednesday 17 September
KEYNOTE LECTURE Kaja Silverman (University of California, Berkeley)
2 panel sessions (Memorial Transfer, Vocal Transaction)
FILM SCREENING followed by Q&A with the director at the Arts
Picturehouse
Drinks reception at Emmanuel College, followed by conference dinner
Thursday 18 September
KEYNOTE LECTURE Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), who will be
SCREENING HER OWN FILM
3 panel sessions (Intercultural Translation, Visual Transfiguration,
Transformation Beyond)
Full delegate rate: £60
Student rate: £30
Conference dinner: £40
(Delegate rates include all screenings, lunches and refreshments.)
For full details and to register, please go to:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/162/
For information or enquiries, email to: [log in to unmask]
With thanks to the Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities (CRASSH); the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC);
Emmanuel College, Cambridge; and the Cambridge Film Trust.
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