27 de agosto de 2021
*CFP* "FROM THE SCENIC ESSAY TO THE ESSAY-EXHIBITION. EXPANDING THE ESSAY FORM IN THE ARTS AFTER LITERATURE AND FILM", S:PAM CONFERENCE
29 de junio de 2021
*CFP* "SOUNDS OF MIGRATION", 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
"Sounds of
Migration" 2021 Annual Conference
Pennsylvania State University (hybrid or virtual conference format – TBD)
November 4-6, 2021
The growing flow and circulation of migrants and refugees across the world introduces unfamiliar voices and sounds into new environments. This conference will examine the diverse expressions and echoes of what we call the sounds of migration. Drawing from Arjun Appadurai’s (1996) definition of technoscapes, we conceptualize “the sounds of migration” as encapsulating the fluid nature of sounds, bodies, and cultural elements coming together to construct imagined worlds, as seen in a globalized space. We invite a broad range of submissions that explore various aspects of the oral and aural dynamics related to migrations, displacements, refugees, and diasporas. How do minority voices emerge? What impact do experiences of migration have on everyday life, both from those relocating and the receiving society? How is literature, language, music, and/or other forms of culture and artistic expression created? How do languages in contact influence each other and lead to changes in pronunciation, word formation or sentence structure?
18 de mayo de 2021
*CFP* "REFOCUS: THE FILMS OF CLAIRE DENIS", EDITED VOLUME
With a career spanning over three decades (1988-Present), French filmmaker Claire Denis has demonstrated not only a remarkable longevity in a notoriously fickle industry, but a continuing fascination with the possibilities of film as form, as art, as language. Simultaneously idiosyncratically French yet global in their outlook, her films test traditional boundaries, between genres, cultures, fiction and autobiography, perhaps evidencing what Denis herself refers to as her ‘dreamy distance with reality’. Denis exhibits the genre eclecticism which characterises the careers of many great auteurs, from Stanley Kubrick to Seijun Suzuki, with her explorations of the postcolonial (Chocolat, White Material), horror (Trouble Every Day), romance (Let the Sunshine In), sci-fi (High Life), and thriller (Bastards, The Stars at Noon). While forging relationships with a small troupe of acclaimed actors (including Alex Descas, Isabelle Huppert, Beatrice Dalle, Juliet Binoche and more recently Robert Pattinson in her English language debut High Life and the forthcoming The Stars at Noon), she often works with the same musicians (Tindersticks), Director of Photography (Agnès Godard), and screenwriter (Jean-Pol Fargeau). Clearly the product of a single creative vision working in the traditions of world cinema, Denis’ films also adopt and subvert ‘mainstream’ conventions. ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis is a timely look at an artist at the height of her powers, and with an impressive oeuvre which is iteratively reinterpreted in light of new works.
10 de mayo de 2021
*CFP* "POSTCOLONIAL PUBLICS: ART AND CITIZEN MEDIA IN EUROPE", CONFERENCE AND EDITED VOLUME
We are delighted to invite contributions to a conference paper on the topic of postcolonial publics expressed and engaged through “citizen media” (Rodriguez 2001; Baker & Blaagaard 2016) and art, in a postcolonial Europe. The conference papers will also serve as chapters for an edited volume which will be published soon after.
We want to interrogate the proliferation of digital media and global culture, and the changes happening in public intellectual engagements. From the adoration of the single (often male, often white) genius to the anonymity of diverse, affective publics, a postcolonial perspective invites contemporary public engagement to have many faces and multiple voices, and addressing new issues such as the environmental crisis and the resurgence of racism. Creativity and art can play a significant role in this development. Performance and visual expressions in the European space interpellate the situated public, but also produce transnational political dialogue and travel across digital space. Embodied performances challenge the cerebral stereotype and classical conception of what public engagement is and should be. Moreover, digital platforms have made available space for expressions that break the form and formulas of public and political speech. However, despite the expansion of public participation, social divisions based on race, gender, sexuality and able-bodiedness still hold sway and begs the question of positionality in relations to institutions, in the different fields of art and media, when it comes to political and social change.
4 de marzo de 2021
*CFP* "INQUIRING HEALING ACROSS SCREEN CULTURES", JUNE 2021 CONFERENCE ONLINE
19 de febrero de 2021
16ª SESIÓN SEMINARIO DOIMECO, "EXILIO CUBANO: DESDE LOS MÁRGENES DEL DOCUMENTAL EN LA DIÁSPORA (2006-2018)"
16 de enero de 2021
III SEMINARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CINES TRANSNACIONALES Y COSMOPOLITAS
III Seminario de Investigación Cines trasnacionales y cosmopolitas
20 de enero de 2021, 11:00 horas (Madrid)
Acceso: meet.google.com/rsm-vmos-ecg
Este tercer seminario abordará fenómenos relacionados con la movilidad humana en el cine, tales como el exilio o la migración transfronteriza. El encuentro se centra en las perspectivas teóricas transnacionales y cosmopolitas y evalúa su potencial para analizar cuestiones industriales, textuales y culturales de la historia del cine.
Esta publicación y este seminario se desarrollan en el marco del proyecto I+D “Cartografías del Cine de Movilidad en el Atlántico Hispánico” (CSO2017-85290-P), en el que trabajan gran parte de las autoras del libro y del presente encuentro.
9 de octubre de 2020
*CFP* "MUJERES CENTROAMERICANAS: ESCRITURAS DISPERSAS EN LO GLOBAL (1900-2000)", NÚMERO 27, LECTORA: REVISTA DE DONES I TEXTUALITAT
El dossier del número 27 de Lectora. Revista de dones i textualitat se propone investigar las escrituras de mujeres centroamericanas a partir de experiencias personales y profesionales que frecuentemente supusieron movimientos a través de distintos espacios e interacciones en diferentes campos culturales. De ahí que, en este dossier, "escrituras dispersas en lo global" apele a textos gestados y diseminados en varios espacios geográficos por razones de migración, exilios, diásporas o estancias profesionales de mujeres centroamericanas en diversos momentos históricos del siglo XX. La larga tradición migratoria centroamericana, y la propia configuración del istmo como "zona de tránsito" (Pérez Brignoli) desde los tiempos coloniales, hace que este dossier busque visibilizar una genealogía de escrituras de mujeres, cuya presencia en distintos mapas literarios, regionales y globales, ponen en evidencia una literatura forjada por medio de intensos intercambios culturales y estéticos. Tal visibilización nos parece necesaria pues, aunque las dimensiones globales de las escrituras de mujeres centroamericanas son una realidad, existe un desconocimiento de las mismas en los centros metropolitanos de cultura, incluso en Latinoamérica (universidades, antologías, conferencias, revistas especializadas, etc.). Tal ausencia indudablemente tiene que ver con la situación periférica de Centroamérica en la geopolítica mundial.
