THE MOVING IMAGE: RE-CONFIGURING SPACES OF LOSS AND MOURNING IN THE 21st
CENTURY is a two-day international interdisciplinary conference taking
place at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities at Cambridge University on 26-27 February 2010.
In an era characterized by reticence about death yet one mired in a visual
culture of death's imagery and shocking instances of public violence, in
recent years the issue of loss has become increasingly addressed in
audiovisual texts from such arthouse mourning epics at THREE COLOURS: BLUE
and I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG, to Jade Goody's final hours. Yet it is only now
being seriously addressed in academic circles.
Consisting of panels revolving around the aesthetics and ethics of
cinematic representation, the Holocaust, the Palestinian conflict, and the
modern mourning diva, and featuring acdemics and mourning specialists from
around the world including Jay Winter (Yale), Colin Parkes Royal Holloway),
Martine Beugnet and Colin Davis, this event is the first of its kind and
promises to be an important and stimulating intervention in this field.
See: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1042/
To register, go to:
https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmwk/intro.cgi.
Thank-you for your interest.
Richard Armstrong & Anna Elsner
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