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.


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