'RE-PRESENTING DIASPORAS IN CINEMA AND NEW (DIGITAL) MEDIA' CONFERENCE 24-25TH JULY, 2007.
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Exeter Phoenix Arts and Media Centre) UK. Please find attached an e-flyer and conference programme (below) for the forthcoming 'Re-presenting diasporas in cinema and new (digital) media conference' taking place in Exeter (UK) 24th-25th July, 2007. Confirmed participants include: John Akomfrah, Inge Blackman, Rajinder Dudrah, Coco Fusco, Eddie George and Anna Piva, Julian Henriques and Roshini Kempadoo For bookings, details of conference programme and participants as well as further information regarding travel and accommodation, please visit the conference web page: http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/content/view/710/3/ Dr Will Higbee and Dr Saer Ba (conference organisers) ---------------------------------------------------------- 'RE-PRESENTING DIASPORAS' CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Venue: Exeter Phoenix Arts and media Centre, Exeter (UK) DAY ONE: 24th July 9:15-9:45am REGISTRATION 10-11:30am: Auditorium WELCOME and KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Hamid Naficy: (Northwestern University, USA). ŒThe Multiplicity Factor in Today's Cinemas: Diasporic Cinema, Art Cinema, and Mainstream Cinema"?¹ Coffee Break 11:30- 12:00 12-1pm: Auditorium PLENARY SESSION: Eddie George & Anna Piva (Flow Motion/Hallucinator) ŒAstro-Black Morphologies¹ (Introduced by Prof. Regenia Gagnier (Migrations Research Network, University of Exeter)) 2:00 3:30pm: Black Box and Top Studio BREAKOUT SESSIONS PANEL A: Diasporas as real and imagined experience -Steffani Jemison (Temple University), Œ³Šso close to me that I cannot reach them²: Nostalgia, Ethnography, and Home in Experimental African-American Media¹ -Jigna Desai (University of Minnesota), ŒYou Can Go Home Again: Diaspora, State and Bollywood Cinema¹ -Alpesh K. Patel (University of Manchester), ŒDesi: as Urban/Digital Space¹ -Inge Blackman ŒLegacy: Memory, Diaspora and Shame¹ PANEL B Diasporic identities: gender, Œrace¹, and the (trans-)national -Emilie Wacogne, (University of Lyon II), ŒDiasporic cinema: dual identities and nomadism¹ -Jonanthan Ervine (University of Leeds), ŒDiaspora and Problematic Hybrid Identities in Contemporary French Cinema¹ -Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), ŒScreening Strangers in Fortress Europe¹ -Meeta Rani Jha (University of London), Œ³Female Sexual Autonomy and AssertivenessŠ²: British Asian Diasporic Aesthetic in Bombay Cinematic Practices¹ 4:00pm- 6:00pm: Auditorium PLENARY: Re-presenting ŒBlack British¹ Diasporas * Award-winning independent Black-British filmmaker John Akomfrah will present and discuss his work. * Dr Rajindher Dudrah (Manchester University) will present: 'Black-, Asian- and Digital-Times in Diasporic Britain' * Presentations will then be followed by around table discussion 8:00-10:00pm: Auditorium V-J Performance by HALLUCINATOR: a multimedia sound-art performance by electronic musicians Anna Piva and Eddie George (sponsored by Migrations Research Network) DAY TWO: 25th July 9:30am 11am: Auditorium KEYNOTE 2: Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London) ŒInterpolating the screen bytes: critical commentary in digital media¹ 11:30- 1:00pm: Black Box and Top Studio BREAKOUT SESSIONS PANEL A Visualizing Diaspora: (virtual) displacement and the construction of space -Claudio Canaparo (University of Exeter), ŒThe Diasporic Space in the cinema of Pablo Trapero¹ -Panivong Norindr (USC), ŒOn Photographic and Historical Traces in Dinh Q. Le¹s Work¹ -Gen Doy (De Montfort University), ŒSomewhereŠ: issues in lens-based visual representation of displacement and migration¹ -Monia Acciari (University of Manchester), ŒBethought-free and experience the Nirvana: a cyberpunk vision of [EMAIL PROTECTED] PANEL B Diaspora: Digital media, memory and the material world -Hijoo Son (UCLA), ŒDigital Data-Mining of Diasporic Art: Re-presentation and Retrieval of a Dynamic Archive¹ -Brian DeLevie (Denver), ŒDigital Palimpsets¹ -Alicia Felberbaum (London), Œsomewhere between here and there : narrativas contadas - narrativas vividas¹ -Tamara Vukov (Concordia University) and AyesahHameed (York University,Toronto), ŒAnimating Exclusions, Haunted Histories: Ali Kazimi¹s Continuous Journey and the Virtualities of Racialized Exclusion in Canadian Immigration Policy¹ 2:00-4:00pm: Auditorium Coco Fusco: ŒA room of one's own: women and power in the new America / Operation Atropos¹ Internationally acclaimed New York based visual artist and writer, Coco Fusco, will discuss new work and give exclusive UK screenings of extracts from her latest documentary exploring the role of female interrogators in ³The War on Terror². Session is sponsored by the Information Society Network (Exeter) and will introduced by Prof. Nick Kay (University of Exeter) 4:30pm-6:00pm: Black Box and Top Studio BREAKOUT SESSIONS PANEL A Revisiting Œdifference¹ in Diaspora: the politics of representation -Augusto Cesar de Oliveira (University of Exeter), ŒDocumenting Black Bahia, Brazil: from the Œmargins¹ to the Œmargins¹¹ -Anaele Diala Iroh (Dublin Institute of Technology), ŒThe Aesthetics of Defacement: Representing Secrecy in Nigerian Transnational Family Life in Ireland¹ -Abdul Hakim Onitolo (University of the West of England), ŒCurry and Chips: Black British Practice Reconsidered¹ -Kate Taylor (University of Wales, Bangor), ŒKorean-minority diasporic cinema in Japan: issues of Japanese-Korean cinematic embodiment¹ PANEL B ŒBeyond¹ Diaspora in theory and practice -Ayesha Hameed (York University, Toronto), ŒVirtual Diasporas and the Epistemics of Displacement¹ -Ashwani Sharma (University of East London), ŒWhite rhizomes and the racial sublime: rethinking diaspora and subjectivity¹ -Julien Henriques (University of East London), "Sonic Diaspora and the Listening Skin - with examples from reggae music-making and the sound system session" 6:00pm-7:00pm: Auditorium CLOSING PLENARY: Œconclusions/connections¹ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
