Humanities and Arts Research Institute

 Symposium: Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference, Seeing Differently

Friday, 25 October 2019

12.00-6.00pm

Royal Holloway, Egham Campus, TW20 OEX, Gowar & Wedderburn Common Room

The Symposium explores the concept of visual alterity from two different angles, considering, on the one hand, the perception of cultural difference in dance, fashion photography and contemporary cinema, and, on the other hand, ways of seeing differently, drawing on experimental cinema, video games, music video and virtual and augmented reality.  With Keynote Speaker Professor Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh.

12.00-12.10  Welcome & Coffee

12.10-12.35 Terri Ochiagha, Department of English 

‘Moroccan Wake-Up’ Revisited: Moroccan Rooftops and Breathless Oriental Fantasies

12.35-13.00  John Bulmer, Photographer http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk

A Visual Presentation and Q&A with John Bulmer

13.00-13.25  Daniela Berghahn, Department of Media Arts

The Transnational Appeal of Exoticism in World Cinema

13.25-14.15 Lunch Break

14.15-14.40 Prarthana Purkauastha, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance 

Decolonizing Human Exhibits: Dance, Re-enactment and Historical Fiction 

 14.40-15.05 Rebecca Feghali, Department of Media Arts

Reconceptualising the Veil on Screen

15.05-15.30 Jean-Baptiste de Vaulx, Department of Media Arts

The Child Protagonist as Universal Other in World Cinema

15.30-15.50 Tea/Coffee

15.50-16.15 Isabelle Verhulst – StoryFutures Academy: National Centre for Immersive Storytelling @ RHUL 

What is VR, AR, MR, XR?

16.15-17.00 Sandhya Suri, Filmmaker 

Screening of the short film The Field (2018) followed by a Q&A

17.00-18.00 Keynote: Professor Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh

Visual Alterity: The Kippbild in Film, Music Video and Games 

Full programme with abstracts available at: tinyurl.com/visaltprog