Hi All

Can I draw your attention - Dublin-based members especially - to our Spring
seminars at the Centre for Film Studies, Admission is free but we would be
grateful if you could let us know if you would like to attend. The seminar
on Wed 26 Jan ought to be of particular interest,

Best,

Ruth Barton




O¹Kane Centre for Film Studies, Research Seminars 2005
We are pleased to announce the O¹Kane Centre for Film Studies Research
Seminars for Spring 2005. These will be held on the dates listed below and
will commence at 6pm in the Magnetical Observatory on UCD¹s Belfield Campus.
The purpose of these seminars is to offer doctoral students the platform to
deliver papers on their work and to hear papers from distinguished
international academics from the field of film studies.
As numbers are restricted and preference will be given to our postgraduate
students, we would ask you to inform the Administrator of the Centre for
Film Studies, Rowena Kelly, whether you would like to attend. She may be
contacted at 716 8604 or by email at [log in to unmask]

Wednesday 26 January
Dr. Stephanie Rains, Assistant Lecturer in Cultural Theory, Department of
Humanities, DLIADT. "John Wayne Seeks Maureen O¹Hara¹: Representations of
Gender and Sexuality within Irish-America".

Wednesday 9 February
Zelie Asava, PhD Research Student, Centre for Film Studies, UCD. "Black
Vampires, Black vampires, mixed-race identity and film: an overview of
contemporary attitudes toward race and gender. Mixed Race Identity "
Valérie Hazette, PhD research Student, Centre for Film Studies, UCD. "Film
Adaptations of Wuthering Heights; The Art of Rewriting".

Wednesday 23 February
Professor John Corner, Head of the School of Politics and Communications at
The University of Liverpool. Television's Event Worlds and the Immediacies
of Seeing: Notes from the Documentary Archive.

Wednesday 9 March
Professor Bruce Babington, Professor of Film Studies at the University of
Newcastle Upon Tyne. Pola Negri: the Slavic Negro, and Lubitsch's Carmen of
1918'

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Dr Ruth Barton
Centre for Film Studies
Arts Annexe
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4

Tel: 00 353 1 7168634
http://www.ucd.ie/~film
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