---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yigit Soncul <[email protected]> Date: 2013/5/13 Subject: Bodies on Screen: A Postgraduate Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London. May 17 2013 To:
*Bodies on Screen: A Postgraduate Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London. * *May 17 2013 - **New Academic Building 305* Bodies on Screen explores the resonances between the body and screen-based media. The conference aims to investigate the politics of representing the body and its limits in a broad geographical spectrum, through creating a forum of academic discourse for postgraduate students whose researches are positioned in the intersection of the study of visual culture, film and embodiment. *Conference contacts * * * Blog: http://bodiesonscreen.blogspot.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/173438602815012/ College website: http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=6537 Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Booking is free and not necessary but you can register your interest through: http://bodiesonscreen.eventbrite.com/ *Programme* *Keynote:* (10.00-11.15) * * *Post-Soviet Bodies: Russian Literature on the Porn Screen * Prof. Gian Piero Piretto, Università degli Studi di Milano * * *Panel I:* *Abject Bodies *(11.15-13.00) Chair: Dr. Pasi Valiaho, Goldsmiths, University of London *Man-Eating: Disgust and the American Cannibal Film* Elena Wooley, King’s College London *Rituals and Traditions: The Representation of The Body in Cannibal Holocaust and Mondo Movies * Lorenzo Gramatica, Goldsmiths, University of London *The Genealogy of Zombie Image from Anatomical Theatre to Sunday Television * Yigit Soncul, Goldsmiths, University of London *Panel II:* *Transgressive Bodies *(14.00-15.30) Chair: Dr. Gareth Stanton, Goldsmiths, University of London *Queer Bodies, ‘Normal’ Desires: Zhongxing Stardom in Chinese Popular Culture* Eva Cheuk-yin Li, King’s College London *Cinematic Specters of the Postcolony: Haunted Bodies in Postcolonial Turkish-Cypriot Cinema* Cihat Arinc, Goldsmiths, University of London *The De-Masculinised Fat Male in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema* Barbara Plotz, King’s College London *Panel III: **Transformative Bodies* (15.45-17.15) Chair: Dr. Virginia Crisp, Middlesex University *Technology and the Body in the Interwar Period: A Study in Science Fiction Film* James Williamson, Goldsmiths, University of London *Béla Tarr's Ruined Bodies* Calum Watt, King’s College London *Hauntologies Through the Costume in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: Seeing Entangled Bodies of Historical Trauma, Affect, and Transnational Memory Production* Nathan To, Goldsmiths, University of London ___________________________________________________________ Sponsored by the Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London
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