Research Seminars 2011-12
The department meets fortnightly during semester time for research seminars with guest speakers. All research and postgraduate taught students are invited to attend. Unless otherwise indicated in 2011-12 we will meet at 6pm on Wednesday evenings in Room K3.11.
Autumn Semester 2011
5 October PhD Candidate, Luke Robinson (King’s College London), “Tuning into the Volume of the Cinematic Movement-Image”
19 October Professor Timothy Corrigan (University of Pennsylvania), “Of the History of the Essay Film: Vertov to Varda”
26 October Special Screening of In Memoriam series and Q&A with artist Phil Solomon (University of Colorado at Boulder) Room S-2.18
16 November Professor Suzanne Buchan (University for the Creative Arts), “A Cinema of Apprehension: Contesting the ‘anima’ of Animation”
30 November Professor David Trotter (University of Cambridge), “Representing Connection: A Multimedia Approach to British Colonial Film, 1918-1939”
14 December Professor Jean-Loup Bourget (École normale supérieure), “New insights into the relationship between Renoir and the New Wave”
Spring Semester 2012
1 February Dr Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen), “In The Birch Grove (2012): Filming in Auschwitz-Birkenau”
15 February Associate Professor Catherine Constable (University of Warwick), “Classical/Post-classical/Postmodern Hollywood: or why Film Studies needs postmodern aesthetics”
29 February Dr Antonio Lazaro-Reboll (University of Kent), “Daring cycles: the Franco-Towers collaboration, 1968-1970”
14 March Professor Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), “Popular Cinema as Popular Resistance: Avatar in the Palestinian Imagi(nation)”
28 March PhD Candidate, Martha Shearer (King’s College London), “Fabulous Invalids: The Hollywood Musical and the Postwar Decline of Broadway”
Summer 2012
21 May Professor Sabine Hake (University of Texas at Austin), title to be confirmed. This talk is being jointly hosted by the German and Film Studies departments.