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ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM
GENDER AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN CINEMA
Friday 8th June 2007
Organized by the Department of Italian, in association with Screen Research
@ Bristol.
Venue: LR8, 19 Woodland Road, University of Bristol
Programme
10.15: Coffee
10.30: Helen Hanson (University of Exeter)
Thinking through Feminist Frames - Questions on Women and Cinema
11.30: Coffee break
11.45: Aine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles)
Visions of Distress: Wounded Female Bodies in post-Cold War Cinema
1-2 LUNCH
2.00: Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol)
Homosociality, Melodrama and La meglio gioventù
Danielle Hipkins (University of Exeter)
Criminal Romances: Prostitution and the Indulgence of Political Ambiguity
in Contemporary Italian Cinema
3.15: BREAK
3.30: Derek Duncan (University of Bristol)
Some Somograph Saimir: Migrant Masculinity as the National Body
The symposium is funded by the Bristol Institute for Research in the
Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA)
All are welcome. There is no fee, but anyone wishing to attend should
contact Catherine O'Rawe by May 15th.
Funding is available for some postgraduate bursaries: again, interested
students should contact Catherine O'Rawe by 15th May.
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Dr. Catherine O'Rawe
Department of Italian
University of Bristol
19 Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1TE
Tel: +44 117 331 6760
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