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Events 2011-2012

 

RICC Reading Group

We are currently arranging the 2011-12 reading group. Please see the Reading Group page for more details.

News Section

Recent news including Conference and Publication announcements can be found in our news section.

 

Upcoming Events

Wed 22 Feb 2012 - MFTN Workshop: Suryia Nayak, ‘Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface’

Wed 22 February 2012, 3-5pm. University Place 3.210, University of Manchester. Suryia Nayak, University of Salford, gives this workshop on Audre Lorde.

Reading:
Lorde, A. (1979) ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’ reprinted in Lorde, A. (1984) Sister Outsider. Crossing Press Feminist Series. United States of America.

March 2012: Palaver - a festival celebrating languages and performance

Three performances:

Communicating Across Cultures (20 March, 8pm)
(performance presented by Russian and Eastern European Studies and RICC)

Un Fil a la Patte (21-23 March, 7.30pm)

Sophie Scholl (22-23 March, 8pm)

All performances will be held at Contact Theatre: More information and to book tickets .

Download flyer.

28 & 29 March 2012: Chinese Film Forum UK

'The Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese and Asian Cinema in the UK'

Cornerhouse, Manchester March 28 – March 29 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS - closes 1 Feb 2012.

In March 2012 the Chinese Film Forum UK will host a major symposium on the distribution and exhibition of Chinese and Asian cinema in the UK. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and RICC, this is the first in a series of Chinese Film Forum networking events taking place across 2012 and 2013 in Manchester, UK.

Enthusiasts for Asian cinema often bemoan the fact that hardly any of the films they love find their way onto UK cinema screens. This problem is the starting point for this two day conference which will investigate the distribution and exhibition of Chinese and Asian Cinema in the UK and beyond. In order to do this the symposium will provide a forum that brings together filmmakers, academics and professionals working in various forms of film distribution and exhibition to discuss the issues facing those interested in broadening the availability of various forms of Chinese and Asian cinema for UK audiences.

 

17 & 18 May 2012 - Chinese Cosmopolitanism Conference

Call For Papers closes 30 January 2012.

An international conference convened by Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) and Confucius Institute (CI), Pathways to Cosmopolitan PhD Program (Manchester and NUS), Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture (RICC), Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC). To be held at the University of Manchester on 17 and 18 May 2012.

 

Past Events

THURS 24 NOV 2011 - RICC/History Seminar: William O'Reilly 'Illiberal Cosmopolitanisms and the early-twentieth century university'

Thursday 24 November, 4-5.30pm, jointly sponsored as part of the history seminar series. Room A101, Samuel Alexander Building.

William O'Reilly is Associate Director of the Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge Lecturer in Early Modern History and Fellow and Tutor, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

WED 23 NOV 2011 - RICC/MFTN Seminar: Heather Latimer - ‘Reproductive Cosmopolitics in Maria Full of Grace and In America’

Wednesday 23 November, 3-5pm, Samuel Alexander, S3.1.

This talk discusses how humanist philosophies such as cosmopolitanism continue to position the reproductive body as a resource or ground for the politics of collective reproduction.  It looks at how reproduction is bound to cosmopolitanism in this fashion by examining two recent films that make thematic connections between migration, reproduction and subjectivity in their visualizations of cosmopolitan kinship: In America (Sheridan 2003) and Maria Full of Grace (Marston 2004).

MON 14 NOV 2011 - RICC/ITS: Dirk Uffelmann - ‘Wrong Sex and the City: Polish Migration and Masculinity’

Mon 14 Nov, 4-5.30pm, University Place 5.210. Organised by RICC and ITS (Institute for Transnational Studies).

This paper aims to discuss challenges to traditional models of masculinity in the wake of migration to Western metropolises. Drawing on examples from recent literary production by (and about) Polish migrants to Germany (Becker, Knapp, Muszer, Rudnicki), the UK (Bolec, Koziarski, Kropiwnicki, Sedzikowski) and Ireland (Wojnarowski), it explores how male migrants are deprived of (seemingly) secure masculine roles when confronted with a subaltern position as unskilled migrant workers. Special attention is paid to the modes of literary compensation for subalternity: carnivalisation (Bakhtin), the picaresque hero, mimicry (Bhabha), Signifying (Gates), self-orientalisation (Khalid) and so on.

Dirk Uffelmann, University of Passau, (uffelmann@uni-passau.de) studied Russian, Polish, Czech and German Literature at the Universities of Tübingen, Vienna, Warsaw, and Constance. He obtained his PhD from the University of Constance in 1999 and defended his second thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Bremen in 2005 before teaching as Lecturer in Russian at the University of Edinburgh. At present, he is full professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Passau. His research interests are Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Central Asian literature, philosophy, religion, migration and internet studies. He is co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie as well as of the book series Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Polonistik im Kontext.

TUES 8 NOV 2011 - The Riots in Context: Intellectual and Political Agendas

November 8, 2011, 3-5pm, University Place 5.210

The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures is organising a seminar to discuss the recent riots in cities in the UK. Members from RICC will give introductions to a series of short readings by academics, journalists and bloggers, and a general discussion will follow. Please join us to discuss the varied responses to the riots from the UK and abroad, and to examine what can be gained from putting these perspectives in dialogue. Readings can be found on the RICC website and below. Please RSVP to caitriona.devery@manchester.ac.uk

• Patrick O'Shea will introduce Sivamohan Valluvan's "Behind the Manchester riots: 'they are saying we have nothing'"
• Sivamohan Valluvan will introduce David Harvey's "Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets"
• Felicia Chan will introduce Paul Gilroy's "Paul Gilroy Speaks on the Riots"
• Jackie Stacey will introduce Slavoj Zizek's "Shoplifters of the World Unite"
• Rachel Wilde will introduce Matt Wilde's "On the Riots and the Need for a New Commons"
• Atreyee Sen will introduce Rudrangshu Mukherjee's "Beyond the Pale: The Violence in England Could Have Stemmed from Despair"
• Madeleine Reeves will introduce Laurie Penny's "Panic on the Streets of London"

TUES 18 OCT 2011 RICC/MFTN Workshop: Haneen Maikey -
'Homonationalism, Pinkwashing, and the Palestinian Struggle'

Tuesday 18 October, 10-11.30am, 2.016/017 Arthur Lewis Building (2nd Floor). Joint RICC/MFTN event.

This workshop will be facilitated by Haneen Maikey, a queer Palestinian activist and the director of alQaws. Haneen will present the queer struggle in Palestine through the broader historical and political context. The workshop will propose an understanding about the nature of the queer activism in Palestine, its accomplishments and challenges through the last decade and will introduce the current discourse of homonationalism and Pinkwashing in Israel from the perspective of marginalized Palestinian queers.

In late 2001, Haneen worked as the Palestinian Project Coordinator for Jerusalem Open House, which began Haneen’s involvement in the Palestinian queer community and instigated long process of self-discovery and community development. During this period, what began as merely a service-oriented project under the umbrella of a Jewish-Israeli organization grew into alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society – the first independent, grassroots, politically active LGBTQ organization working within Israel and the Palestinian occupied territories. Since 2008, Haneen has been the director of alQaws.

 

TUES 4 OCT 2011 RICC/MFTN: Flor De María Gamboa Solís: ‘”Femininity, fright, madness”: a paradigmatic circuit of the ghostly’

Tuesday 4 October, 5-6.30pm, 2.016/017 Arthur Lewis Building (2nd Floor). Co-organised by RICC and Manchester Feminist Theory Network.

“Femininity, fright, madness” is a circuit that can be translated into a threefold structure for thinking about the ghostly realm. This can model and order our way of understanding meanings and our sense of the frightening, spooky, horrifying and delirious results from such experiences. The key element enabling this circuit to function is the image of the castrated woman imbedded in psychoanalysis. This presentation looks at “The lost ghost”, a classic ghost story by Mary E. Wilkins, and attempts to dismantle the interconnections between the three terms in order to reveal why femininity is the fuel of the ghostly.

Flor de María Gamboa Solís is Professora-Investigadora de la Facultad de Psicologia de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico.

TUES 5 JULY 2011: Paul Gilroy Lecture: Multiculture, Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality

Prof Paul Gilroy (LSE) will give a public lecture at the University of Manchester discussing the politics of race, nation and civilisation in contemporary Europe, seen in the context of endless war as a postcolonial phenomenon. Event Poster.

Tuesday 5th July 2011, 5.15pm in Arts Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester.

Paul Gilroy is the first holder of the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory as LSE. His intellectual background is multi-disciplinary and he has extensive interests in literature, art, music and cultural history as well as in social science. He is best known for his work on racism, nationalism and ethnicity and his original approach to the history of the African diaspora into the western hemisphere. 

Gilroy received his Ph.D. from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University where he was part of the group which collectively produced "The Empire Strikes Back" (Routledge, 1982). After that, he worked at the GLC for a number of years before taking up academic positions at South Bank and Essex where one of his principal responsibilities was teaching on the joint degree in Sociology and Literature. Gilroy moved to Goldsmiths College in 1991 and was appointed Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies there in 1995. Before joining the LSE in the summer of 2005, he taught at Yale University where he was Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of Sociology and African American studies as well as chair of the African American Studies department.

Some of Prof Gilroy's publications include: Darker than Blue: on the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic culture (2010), Postcolonial Melancholia (2006), After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? (2004), Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race (2001), Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (2000), The Black Atlantic (1993), Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (1993). 

Associated workshop event:

This lecture precedes a workshop on Diasporic Conviviality, Cosmopolitanism and Urban Spaces on 6th and 7th July. Please email caitriona.devery [@] manchester.ac.uk for more details.

TUES 7 & WED 8 JUNE 2011: E. Ann Kaplan Talk/Film Screening & Masterclass

E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directs The Humanities Institute. She is Past President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Kaplan has written many books and articles on topics in cultural studies, media, and women's studies, from diverse theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis, feminism, postmodernism, and post-colonialism. She has given lectures all over the world and her work has been translated into six languages. Kaplan’s pioneering research on women in film (see her Women in Film: Both Sides of the Camera, Women in Film Noir and Motherhood and Representation) continues to be in print and influential in the United States and abroad. Her recent books include Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (co-edited with Ban Wang in 2004), Feminism and Film (2000) and a monograph, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (2005). She is working on two further book projects, Trauma, Time and Technology: Post 9/11 Dystopian Discourses in Media and Literature; and The Unconscious of Age: Screening Older Women.

1. Public Talk / Film Screening at Cornerhouse (June 7th)

Talk: Dystopian Fictions of Trauma Future-Tense: Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, Tue 7 June, 5.00pm

Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men (and the P.D. James novel from which it is adapted) touched a scholarly nerve when the film appeared in 2006, partly inspired by Slavoj Zizek’s commentary on the DVD. In this talk, I first look briefly at the unusual academic attention to a commercial film, noting varied theories scholars have used in illuminating this work. Secondly, I develop my specific concerns with the Children of Men, arising from my research in trauma studies, and from a broader concern with increasing fictions about future human-produced catastrophe.  I describe a new sub-genre of the Science Fiction film, that I call “Futurist Dystopian Cinema,” and situate it in a long (problematic) history in the west of utopian/dystopian thought. Turning to Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents (which I situate in this intellectual tradition), I suggest the projections and displacements from US and Eurocentric social and political realities that may underlie the return of age-old negative fantasies about the future of the world.  Trauma Future-tense, an apparent anomaly, arguably recognizes not only apocalyptic imaginaries but Freud’s death drive as well.

Film Screening: Children of Men, Tue 7 June, 6.30pm
Dir Alfonso Cuaron / 2006 / 109 mins. Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Michael Caine. £7.50/5.50 via Cornerhouse website.

2. Master Class with E. Ann Kaplan (June 8th)

Wed 8 June 10.00am-12.00pm, G.30/31 Arthur Lewis Building. All Postgrads and Postdocs welcome.

Readings:

Lee Edelman, 2004. 'Chapter One - The Future is Kid Stuff', in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. London: Duke University Press.

José Esteban Muñoz, 2009, 'Introduction: Feeling Utopia', in Cruising Utopia, The Then and There of Queer Futurity, New York UP, London: 1-18.

Sara Ahmed, 2010, 'Chapter Five - Happy Futures', in The Promise of Happiness, London: Duke University Press.

17 MAY-20 MAY Sexuality Summer School 2011: Queer Temporalities

The 4th annual Sexuality Summer School will run from 17-20th May. This year brings together researchers from diverse fields including English Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Media Studies, Performance Studies and many others to discuss and critique representations and understandings of gender, sexuality and queerness as they relate to concepts and constructions of the temporal.

Registration opens 14th March: sign up here.

Course Materials: Reading list Daily Schedule

More information about the Sexuality Summer School including previous years, is via the SSS page.

Co-ordinated by Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) and RICC.

Download Sexuality Summer School Poster.

TUES 17 MAY: Chinese Film Forum UK: China Close Up - Talk and Screening

Documentary making is becoming ever more popular in today’s China, as amateur and professional filmmakers use the visual medium as their voices, eyes and a means by which to experiment with the creative arts. This documentary screening event includes screenings of Brave Father and Changing Mask: A Letter to Antonioni, and will provide a rare opportunity to see Chinese people’s intimate depictions of their country’s rapid changes.

The screening will be followed by discussion from Dr. Jeesoon Hong, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester, Dr. Johannes Sjoberg, Lecturer in Screen Studies and Drama at the University of Manchester and Keith B. Wagner, Lecturer at London South Bank University.

Supported by the Centre for Chinese Studies and the Confucius Institute.

Tickets via Cornerhouse : £5.50 full / £4 concs.

Screenings

BRAVE FATHER (CTBA)

Dir Li Junhu/CN 2007/48 mins/Mandarin wEng ST

Han Peiyin’s son Shengli is accepted into a local university, but to pay for his living expenses and tuition, Han must sell the family’s valuables. This unfaltering account follows Han and his family as they endure great hardship whilst desperately sticking to the belief that Shengli’s education will lead to a better life for the family.

CHANGING MASK: A LETTER TO ANTONIONI (CTBA)

Dir Pan Jun/CN 2004/58 mins/Mandarin wEng ST

This film re-visits the original places and people featured in Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed documentary, China (1972). First commissioned and subsequently banned by the Chinese government, Antonioni’s film was one of the few western documentaries about China's Cultural Revolution. Echoing the themes portrayed in Antonioni’s original film, Changing Mask: A Letter to Antonioni portrays the opinions of Chinese people as they discuss changes they have experienced during the last 40 years.

If you are interested in the above events you may want to attend Rethinking the Image of China in Global History, organised by Centre for Chinese Studies and the Confucius Institute on Wednesday 18th May.

WED 18 MAY: "Other Voices from the Colonial to the Postcolonial: Conscience in Globalization"

Talk by Professor Jonathan Hart, Wednesday 18th May, 4pm, Samuel Alexander Building, A104, followed by wine reception.

In the expansion of Europe, which intensified with Columbus, there were other voices that raised issues about the desirability and problems of exploration, settlement and colonization. The committee that considered Columbus' enterprise, Las Casas, Montaigne, Léry, Swift and others called into question this quest to expand, this push to what we now call globalization. In time, Natives, those subjected to slavery and former slaves lent their voices to the interpretation of this encounter between cultures in this "globalization." The Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico, Powhatan, Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Sitting Bull, and others speak out about their experiences. Later, in the age of decolonization, post-colonialism or neo-colonialism, depending on a person's point of view, Thoreau, Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King as well as poets like Claude Mackay and Jeannette Armstrong presented alternative voices. So much then depends on multiple expressions and perspectives to try to find a fuller idea of the meeting of cultures in the age of modernization. The talk will, then, work across the lines of literature, history, ethnology and politics by addressing issues in colonial and postcolonial, locality and globalization, empires and colonies.

Jonathan Hart, Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Adjunct Professor of History at University of Alberta and Archives By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, has published books of poetry, history and literary criticism and theory, such as Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2011), Musing (2011) and Literature, Theory, History (forthcoming 2011). He has held visiting appointments at Toronto, Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and elsewhere. Most recently, he has given seminars at the University of the Basque Country.

Co-hosted by RICC and the Institute for Transnational Studies.

Chinese Film Forum UK: Anna May Wong talk & screening, and Hollywood Chinese double bill (5th & 12th April)

5th April:

1. Talk / Beyond Dragon Ladies and Butterflies: Anna May Wong’s Stardom
Tue 5 Apr, 5.00pm

Despite being faced with discriminatory casting, “yellowfacing” practices and the Hay’s Code of anti-miscegenation rules, Chinese American actress Anna May Wong became an international star during the 1930s. This talk explores the history of Asian American representations in Hollywood cinema, and considers the successes and failures of Wong’s career in their historical contexts, discussing films such asThe Thief of Baghdad(1924) from the silent era,Piccadilly(1929) from her time in Europe,Shanghai Express(1932) from the early sound era, and the controversy around the casting ofThe Good Earth(1937).

Led by Mina Suder, PhD student at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) and the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester.

2. Chinese Film Forum UK Presents / Piccadilly (PG)
Tue 5 Apr, 6.20pm
Dir Ewald Andre Dupont / GB 1929 / 108 mins
Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas

This sumptuous showbiz melodrama stars Anna May Wong as a nightclub scullery maid whose rise to celebrity in the London clubs of the 1920s brings her both admirers and enemies.Piccadillyis a classic of British silent cinema rarely seen in cinemas.

12th April:

Chinese Film Forum UK Presents / Hollywood Chinese Double Bill (CTBA)
Tue 12 Apr, 6.20pm

- The Curse of Quon Gwon
Dir Marion Wong / US 1916-17 / 34 mins
This black-and-white silent film is the earliest known example of Chinese-American filmmaking, and one of the few American silent feature films made by a woman. Never released in the US before it was restored in 2006, the film is remarkable for its contribution to film and cultural history at a time when Chinese immigration to the USA was viewed with suspicion and hostility.

- Hollywood Chinese
Dir Arthur Dong / US 2008 / 90 mins
Hollywood Chinesebrings together a captivating portrait of filmmakers and iconic images for a high-spirited look at the ways the Chinese have been imagined in Hollywood movies, from silent classics to contemporary blockbusters. All star cast includes Ang Lee, Nancy Kwan, Wayne Wang, Joan Chen, Amy Tan, and others. Winner, Taipei Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary.

April Chinese Film Forum UK events were supported by the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) at the University of Manchester

Polish AS and A2 Workshops, March 2011.
Ewa Ochman co-ordinatd a workshop for AS and A2 students of Polish on 19th March, on translation and Polish theatre, literature and film. Programme.

Interrogating Queer Modes of Belonging - A Manchester Queer Reading Group Series, February 2011.

This reading series considers texts that address the ways in which gay rights are being used in nationalist, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric by European governments, far-right politicians like Geert Wilders, racist organisations such as the English Defence League and even increasingly by gay activists. Is it possible to show solidarity without patronising LGBTQI struggles elsewhere? How do we resist justifications for war on the basis of appeals to women’s and queer rights? Is secularism compulsory for LGBTQI people, and what does this mean for those who profess a faith? Does the focus on legal rights such as joining the army or gay marriage represent your idea of liberation? Culminating in an all-day workshop with various discussions: Jin Haritaworn in conversation with Adi Kuntsman (RICC), and Q&A 12-7pm, Friday February 25th 2011, University of Manchester (supported by SAGE).

Heather Latimer: 'Representing the Pregnant Refugee: Citizenship in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men', February 2011.

New RICC postdoctoral fellow, Heather Latimer, will give a talk for English and American Studies on February 23rd, 4pm in the Samuel Alexander Poetry Centre. 

Chinese Film Forum UK: Talk and Film Screening, February 2011.

Talk: F eng Xiaogang and the Chinese New Year Blockbuster

Tue 8 Feb, 17:00 – 18:00.
Although the tradition of the Chinese New Year film began in Hong Kong, in recent years, mainland Chinese director Feng Xiaogang has made a string of successful Chinese New Year blockbusters. Feng’s films are enormously popular in China but relatively unknown to Western audiences. This introduction will explore the political and cultural implications of the blatant commercialism of Feng’s films, assessing how far they might be seen as a new form of intervention in the politics of Chinese filmmaking. Led by Dr Felicia Chan, RCUK Fellow in Film, Media and Transnational Cultures, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures and the Centre for Screen Studies, the University of Manchester. Full Details.

Film: Aftershock (15)

Tue 8 Feb, 18:10
Feng Xiaogang’s latest Chinese New Year film has been a Box Office smash hit across Asia. Aftershock is a visually stunning and ambitious drama following the tale of seven year-old Fang Deng whose family is torn apart in the1976 earthquake that struck Tangshan. Decades later, a second earthquake strikes and provides an opportunity for the family to reunite. Presented by the Chinese Film Forum UK with support from Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester. Full Details.

Cosmopolitanism in the Landscape of Modernity, December 2010.
Galin Tihanov gave this invited lecture on 3 December 2010 at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Sofia.

Feminization of Labour: Domestic Work and Affect in a Transnational Context (Workshop and Masterclass), December 2010.
Supported by: Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, Institute for Transnational Studies in Languages, Linguistics and Cultures (University of Manchester).

- Workshop (9-10 December)
Very little has changed since the feminist movement’s campaign for “wages for housework” in the 1970s. Domestic work is still considered work for which we don’t need to pay. Feminist work has argued for the constitutive character of domestic work in society. This workshop will reconnect to this debate by focusing on the relationship between domestic work and affect in a transnational context. Through this perspective we will not only engage with the analysis of domestic work as a field of negotiations of gendered and racialized boundaries, but with the affective fabric of domestic work as feminized, racialized labour. Through a comparative approach between Argentina, Brazil, Spain and the UK this workshop will explore the globalized and localized character of domestic work. Keynotes: Professor Jurema Brites, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM); Dr. Bridget Anderson, COMPAS; Dr, Sandra Gil Araújo, University of Granada/RIAMI, Buenos Aires; Professor Cristina Vega Solís, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Workshop programme.

- Masterclass (13-15 December, 9.30-12.00)
For undergraduate, graduate and interested colleagues on ‘Migration, Care Work and Affective Ties’, with Dr Jurema Brites, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), and Dr. Sandra Gil, Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the University of Granada. Masterclass programme.

1-4 December: Impure Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema (Felicia Chan and Jackie Stacey)

Jackie Stacey was on a plenary panel of the 'Impure Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema' conference in Leeds, 1-4 December 2010. Her paper was entitled: 'Cosmopolitan Cinemas and the Limits of Transparency'. Felicia Chan also presented her paper '"Life of Imitation": Trompe l'oeil animation in Millennium Actress'.

Friday 12 November, 1-7pm: UnSpooling – Artists & Cinema / Keynote Lecture and Roundtable Discussion

Felicia Chan is organising this set of events at Cornerhouse alongside their current exhibition UnSpooling. The keynote lecture is titled, 'Excentric Cinema', by Professor Janet Harbord (Queen Mary). The roundtable panel includes Dr Vicky Lowe (Drama, UoM) and Dr Johannes Sjoberg (Drama, UoM), as well as Sophia Crilly (Bureau Art Gallery) and Wayne Lloyd (artist). Full details. Programme.

27 October: Climate Justice, Science and Refugees

An evening of debate, and discussion with multimedia, film, music and poetery. Wednesday 27th October 2010, 5.30pm - 10pm at International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Part of The Centre Cannot Hold project by Virtual Migrants, in collaboration with RICC and MRSN (Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures and Manchester Refugee Support Network) with support from the School of Environment and Development (Manchester University) and Community Arts North West / Exodus. Financially upported by Manchester University and Manchester Beacon. A Manchester Science Festival event. Full details are in the flyer.

3-4 June 2010: Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures: Feelings, Technologies, Politics
This two day conference brought together the fields of cultural studies of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand, and scholarship on digital culture, new media and information-communication technologies, on the other. Materials from the conference, including plenary recordings, papers and presentations are available here.