*A POST GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM*
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2nd November
2015
A post-graduate event organized by the Leverhulme network:
??Childhood and Nation in World Cinema: Borders and Encounters Since
1980
Call for papers:
This day conference will explore filmic representations of girlhoods, of
boyhoods, of transgender childhoods, of queer childhoods, considering
how imaging of diverse gender identities intersects with questions of
national and transnational identity. Both documentary and feature film
will be encompassed, commercial and independent cinema. There will also
be focus on home movies, found footage films, essay films, films by
children, coming of age films, autobiographical films, experimental and
avant-garde films. Céline Sciammaâ??s /Girlhood/ (2014) and Richard
Linklaterâ??s /Boyhood/ (2014) will offer further points of reference and
discussion. Overall, cinemaâ??s investment in or disruption of coherent
and explanatory narratives of growing up will be our point of focus.
*Keynote speakers: *
Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex)
Sophie Mayer (QMUL)
*Invited filmmaker:*
Alina Marazzi
*Submissions:*
We invite proposals (up to 200 words) for 15 minute presentations. It is
envisaged that these will include a film clip of up to five minutes
followed by analysis. For further details please contact Emma Wilson
(efw1000@cam.ac.uk <mailto:efw1000@cam.ac.uk>).
Proposals should be sent to childnationcinema@rhul.ac.uk
by 30^th June 2015.
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the researcher database, please visit the website or email childnationcinema@rhul.ac.uk
*Network Partners*:
Emma Wilson (Cambridge), Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (Liverpool), Sarah
Wright (RHUL), Hannah Kilduff (Cambridge) and Zitong Qiu (Zhejiang
University)