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Chinese Cosmopolitanism Conference - CFP
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. Full details.
Chinese Film Forum UK: CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
'The Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese and Asian Cinema in the UK'
Cornerhouse, Manchester March 28 – March 29 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, 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.
Papers (20 minutes) or shorter contributions are therefore invited on any of the following,
- Availability and circulation of Chinese and Asian Cinema
- Distribution and exhibition of UK Asian film
- Role and importance of specialised distribution companies
- Economics of dubbing and subtitling
- The role of specialist festivals and events
- Funding for distribution and exhibition initiatives
- Impact of DVD and VOD
- Alternative modes of distribution
- Alternative modes of exhibition
- Impact of critical writing on distribution and exhibition
- Press coverage of Chinese and Asian cinema
- Chinese and Asian cinema as ‘art’ cinema
or any other area that addresses the concerns of the conference.
Confirmed keynote speakers and contributors include:
Dr. Valentina Vitali, Reader in Film Studies, University of East London Mark Cosgrove, Head of Programming at Watershed Media Centre, Bristol Sonali Joshi, Artistic Director, Pan-Asian Film Festival Sarah Perks, Programme and Engagement Director at Cornerhouse, Manchester Ian Wild, Chief Executive, Showroom & Workstation, Sheffield
150-200 word proposals for papers or more informal contributions should be sent to both Felicia Chan (Felicia.chan@manchester.ac.uk) and Andy Willis (a.willis@salford.ac.uk) by February 1st 2012.
The Chinese Film Forum UK network is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and was founded to support and facilitate the promotion and discussion of films from across the Chinese Diaspora. It is a joint venture between University of Manchester, University of Salford, Cornerhouse, The Confucius Institute, The Chinese Arts Centre and Manchester Metropolitan University. Further details of the events it has supported can be found here.
Beacon Recognition Award for RICC
Nina Glick Schiller's project ‘Climate Change Testimonies from Refugees’ project (collaboration with Virtual Migrants, MRSN, School of Chemical Engineering won a Beacon ‘Recognition Award’ worth £750 for the project which uses testimonials from refugees to explore issues of climate change and migration.
Claire Bullen wins scholarship
RICC PhD student Claire Bullen has been
awarded a small scholarship, from
UACES ( University Association for Contemporary European Studies), which enables her to return to Marseille for a couple of months from February to carry out research with the Marseille-Provence capital of culture programme.
Jackie Stacey receives award for latest book
'The Cinematic Life of the Gene’ by Jackie Stacey has been awarded the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Named in honor of the late Anne Friedberg, the award recognizes innovative scholarship in cinema and media.
methods@manchester funding for MDMN
Adi Kuntsman has successfully applied for methods@manchester annual competition for methods-related project and was awarded funding to further develop research and training activities of Manchester Digital Media Network in 2011-2012.
RICC Climate Change and Migrants project profiled by British Science Association
The British Science Association are profiling RICC’s “Climate Change: testimonies from refugees and asylum seekers” as an innovative Science engagement project. The project was one of 15 chosen from a long list of 200 to be featured on their website and other high profile science and science engagement websites.
Adi Kuntsman Awarded Simon Fellowship
Adi Kuntsman was awarded the Simon Fellowship for her project ‘Digital Horizons of Humanitarianism’. Addressing mediated horizons of violence, conflict and cosmopolitan anxieties, the project will map the ways digital media can shape our affective responses to wars, dehumanisation and death.
Heather Latimer joins RICC as SSHRC postdoctoral fellow
Welcome to Heather Latimer, joining RICC as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2011.
Heather received her PhD in 2010 from Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, Canada. Her research examines reproductive politics, literary and visual culture, and representations of citizenship. She has published on contemporary literature, reproduction, psychoanalysis, and feminist science studies. At present, she is beginning a project on the connections between fetal citizenship and refugee status. Full profile.
Visting PhD student Adela Fofiu to work on Romanian cyberhate
Adela Fofiu, a sociology PhD candidate at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, will be working with Adi Kuntsman, Nina Glick Schiller and Bridget Byrne on her project on Romanian cyberhate while at RICC (January - July 2011).
New MPI funded project on Urban Transformations
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity are funding project on Urban Transformations co-led by Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller. As part of this RICC PhD candidate Claire Bullen has been awarded a two-month stipend to study “Urban transformation and rescaling processes in Marseilles". The project has also funded Adam St. Clair, MA in Anthropological Research candidate, as a research assistant for the Manchester component of the project.
Claire Bullen wins Cultural Policy Award
RICC PhD student Claire Bullen has been awarded the 2010 Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) during the Fourth Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum in Brussels on 7th October. The CPRA jury had shortlisted 6 finalists among the applications from 13 countries. The finalists presented their research projects publicly during the Forum. Bullen’s winning research project is entitled, “European Capitals of Culture and everyday cultural diversity: Comparing social relations and cultural policies in Liverpool (UK) and Marseilles (France)” and will be carried out within one year. Read an interview with Claire on Labforculture.org.
Adi Kuntsman article awarded Heldt Prize
Adi Kuntsman's article
"’With a Shade of Disgust’: Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag" won the 2010 Heldt Prize for the best article in Slavic/Eastern
European/Eurasian women's studies.
Wenner Gren Grant for 'New York Stories'
Andrew Irving received an award from the Wenner Gren Foundation for a an experimental art/anthropology project entitled ‘New York Stories’, to research and represent how different modes of inner expression, including interior dialogues, unarticulated moods, imaginative lifeworlds and emotional reverie, constitute people’s lived experience of urban life and mediate social-cultural spaces but often remain hidden beneath the surface of public activities.
Heather Latimer nominated for SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize
Recently appointed RICC fellow
Heather Latimer has been nominated for the 2010 SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Ewa Ochman fieldwork in Poland
Ewa Ochman was awarded funding from The Polish History Museum Scholarship Fund, Poland and the SLLC Research Support Fund for a project on ‘The Construction of a National Mythology and the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–20’.
Life Journeys - new project in Uganda by Andrew Irving
Andrew Irving received a British Academy grant and methods@manchester grant for ‘Life Journeys’, a participatory research project that uses non-textual methods based in film, image, movement and narration, to capture the unvoiced but often radical changes in being, belief and perception that occur when living with illness. The primary fieldwork was carried out in Uganda between March and June 2011.
Another War Zone: Social Media in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
As part of her research on digital media and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Adi Kuntsman has recently contributed a piece to Middle East Report, together with Rebecca L Stein from Duke University USA. Read article.