'The Moving Image: Reconfiguring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st
Century' is an international interdisciplinary conference taking place at
Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities and aimed at exploring the audiovisual representation of loss in
our time. Consisting of several panels over two days, we have attracted a
range of academics and other professionals from three continents who shall
be addressing issues coalescing around the politics and aesthetics of loss,
and memory and commemoration in mainstream and non-mainstream audiovisual
texts and contexts. Speakers include Professor Jay Winter of Yale
University, Professor Colin Davis of London University, Ariella Azoulay of
Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and the grief theorist Colin Parkes.
This shall be the first event to address this theme, and we believe it
constitutes a significant intervention in film and media studies and the
social sciences more widely, opening the investigation of grief and
mourning up to research beyond the 'trauma theory' paradigm which has
dominated consideration of this experience in recent decades.
For more detailed information go to:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1042/.
Richard Armstrong and Anna Elsner,
French department,
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Lnaguages,
Cambridge University
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