Symposium
PORTUGUESE FILM: COLONY; POSTCOLONY; MEMORY
Thursday, 14 January and Friday, 15 January 2016
University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Programme below and available here: http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/19387/Portuguese+Film%3A+Colony%2C+Postcolony%2C+Memory
Thursday, 14 January 2016, Room 104 (first floor)
16.00 Film Screening: Yvone Kane (Margarida Cardoso, 2014)
18.00 Q & A with Margarida Cardoso chaired by Sally Faulkner and Mariana Liz; drinks reception
Friday, 15 January 2016, Room 243 (second floor)
09.50 Welcome and Introduction by Sally Faulkner and Mariana Liz
10.00 Panel 1: Representations of (Anti-)Colonialism
Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Minho / Lisbon / ISCTE-UL): ‘Ultramarine blues: “image-flashes” of Portuguese (anti-)colonialism’
Ros Gray (Goldsmiths, London): ‘To unhinge a look, a gesture, a sign: unleashing the revolutionary use-value of Portugal’s colonial film’
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Warwick): ‘Out of the Labyrinth? Depois do Adeus as Potentially Productive Nostalgia’
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Panel 2: The Cinema of Miguel Gomes
Lúcia Nagib (Reading): ‘Colonialism as Fantastic Realism in Tabu’
Hilary Owen (Manchester): ‘Filming Ethnographic Portugal - Miguel Gomes and the Last Taboo’
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Panel 3: The Cinema of Margarida Cardoso
Antonio da Silva (Kent): ‘Rebuilding colonial memory through archive in the work of two Portuguese women filmmakers: Margarida Cardoso and Filipa César’
Sally Faulkner and Ana Martins (Exeter): ‘Intermedial Dialogue in The Murmuring Coast (Lídia Jorge 1988 / Margarida Cardoso 2004): Novel; Photography; Film’
Mark Sabine (Nottingham): ‘The Celluloid War: Images in conflict in the cinema of Margarida Cardoso’
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Roundtable discussion chaired by Margarida Cardoso
Attendance is free, but advance registration is required. To register please email [log in to unmask] by 6 January 2016 or register online at http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/19387/Portuguese+Film%3A+Colony%2C+Postcolony%2C+Memory
Event organised by Sally Faulker (Exeter) and Mariana Liz (Leeds).
Supported by the IMLR, Instituto Camões, The Leverhulme Trust, University of Exeter and University of Leeds.