Public Lecture: Professor Rosalind Gill ‘Love Your Body and Hate It’
Followed by a roundtable discussion on “Body Image & Gender in Neoliberal Times” with members of the Centre for Gender & Women’s studies and Lancaster Feminist Society
Thursday October 30th 2014, 4-6pm
Bowland North, Seminar Room 10
In a joint project between the Departments of European Languages and Cultures and English and Creative Writing, a two-day symposium will be held on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th September 2014.
Border Masculinities will bring together scholars from a wide range of specialisms to discuss spatial and conceptual borders with regard to the representation of masculinities. Papers will be delivered that consider masculinities in Britain, as well as in North and Latin America, and how the condition of the border can open up analyses and discussions of forms of masculinity in literature, film and other cultural representations. Current debates about masculinities will be challenged with innovative analyses that re-consider the ways men and masculinities have been conceptualised across a number of different disciplines.
This is a free event but we would appreciate it if you could fill in the following registration form for catering purposes: Border Masculinities registration form
For further information, please contact: Dr Amit Thakkar and Dr Brian Baker: a.thakkar@lancaster.ac.uk or b.baker@lancaster.ac.uk
PLEASE NOTE WE CAN OFFER BURSARIES FOR ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT IF YOU ARE A POSTGRADUATE STUDENT IN THE UK (SEE FORM BELOW). THE BURSARIES ARE WORTH £80 each.
Symposium venue (for Registration, Keynote and all other talks):
Bowland Room North Seminar Room 20
Friday 19th September
17.30 Welcome, Registration and Coffee
18.00 Keynote Lecture
Chris Harris (University of Liverpool)
Crossing Patriarchal Borders: Men and Women’s Rights in Mexico
19.30 Dinner
Saturday 20th September
9.00 Saturday Attendees Registration
9.15 Panel 1: British and North American Spaces
Discussant: Alice Ferrebe (Liverpool JMU)
Charlotte Mathieson (University of Warwick)
Brian Baker (Lancaster University)
Andy Tate (Lancaster University)
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Panel 2: Masculinities in Political Spaces
Discussant: Amit Thakkar (Lancaster University)
Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University)
Victoria Carpenter (University of Derby)
Jo Crow (University of Bristol)
12.30 LUNCH BREAK
13.30 Panel 3: Latin American Spaces
Discussant: Brian Baker (Lancaster University)
Mark Millington (University of Nottingham)
Amit Thakkar (Lancaster University)
Cornelia Grabner (Lancaster University)
15.00 Coffee
15.15 Round Table led by Chris Harris (University of Liverpool)
16.00 Close
Further information can be found at the symposium’s blog here: https://bordermasculinities.wordpress.com
Lancaster University’s Live at LICA is hosting a summer school run by multi-media artist, Hetain Patel in August, and is looking for participants from performance and film backgrounds.
information about the course and application details can be found here:
https://www.liveatlica.org/artist-support/summer-school-2014
Lancaster University, June 11-12, 2014
Charles Carter Building, Room A18
Day One 2.00-10.00pm, Day Two 9.30am-1.00pm
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Provisional schedule:
Day 1 (11 June)
1st session: 2.00-3.30pm
Richard Rushton (Lancaster): Deleuze, Psychoanalysis and Cinema
Elizabeth Cowie (Kent): Psychoanalysis, Film Theory and Film-Philosophy
2nd session: 4.00-5.30pm
Catherine Grant (Sussex): Object Relations and Videographic Film Studies
Vicky Lebeau (Sussex): Why Psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis, Visual Culture and the Current State of Play.
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Symposium dinner on the evening of the 11th June, Lancaster House Hotel
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Day 2 (12 June)
3rd session: 9.30-11.00am
Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary): Winnicott and Little Madnesses
Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton): Media and the Inner World, Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture
4th session: 11.30am-1.00pm
Agnieszka Piotrowska (Bedfordshire): Embodiment, Psychoanalysis and Documentary
Rona Murray (Lancaster): Feminism, Film and Psychoanalysis Today
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Lunch will be provided from 1pm onwards
Please contact Richard Rushton (r.rushton@lancs.ac.uk) for information, or LICA PG secretary, Jennifer Bull (j.a.bull@lancs.ac.uk) for information and free registration
Final version of the programme! Excited to add a paper by Sarah Gilligan on Sherlock and fandom – as well as some other small changes.
Screening Style: Costume, Cinema and Performance
9.30-10: Registration and coffee
10-11: Sir Christopher Frayling, Hollywood Costume
11-12.30: Panel 1 – screening sexuality
Bruce Bennett, The heightened look of film history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love
Sarah Gilligan, Refashioning Sherlock: Fandom, Digital Spaces and Performativity
Catherine Spooner, ‘Wrapped in plastic’: David Lynch’s Material Girls
12.30-1.30: Lunch
1.30-2.15: Donatella Barbieri, Absences and re-encounters: archived costumes and the performances they hold
2.15-3.15: Panel 2 – style in practice
Jane Barnwell, Make Up and the Movies
Nigel Stewart, Turning Bodies and Textures of Light: Russell Maliphant’s Afterlight
3.14-4.15: Coffee
3.45-4.45: Panel 3 – costume and commerce
Kamilla Elliott, Who will you wear to the party? Costume and/as character in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Liz Oakley-Brown, Outlaw Style: Surface, Screen, Sensation (1580-1980)
4.45-5.30: Lea Anderson, Quick Change, The Choreography of Costume in the work of Lea Anderson and The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs.
Full details of the day here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Screening-Style-Costume-Cinema-and-Performance/1433032680260289
Scars and Wounds: Trauma on Film in National and International Contexts
We are inviting proposals for chapters of an edited volume based on a variety of responses to the connections between trauma, nation and film. We are looking for studies associated with physical, psychological, structural, infrastructural, cultural and economic trauma, and the ways in which these are represented in film, including documentary and television.
Cinematic representations of trauma are often analysed in the context of specific nations or theoretical frameworks, such as genocide, memory and psychoanalysis. For example, E. Ann Kaplan’s Trauma Culture (2005) begins from a psychoanalytical premise, while Roger Luckhurst’s The Trauma Question (2008) deals with trauma on film in the context of cultural politics whilst paying attention to psychiatric and legal developments. Ewa Mazierska’s European Cinema and Intertextuality (2011) focuses specifically on history, memory and politics within European contexts. Trauma is often located, via the aforementioned frameworks, in specific locations and times (for example the Holocaust, the two World Wars from a European-American perspective and, more recently, 9-11). Such approaches have opened up innovative and insightful pathways into the critical treatment of trauma on film. This project welcomes both original turns in such analysis and the extension of the debates on filmic representations of trauma to national contexts and historical events that have received much less critical attention.
Our focus is global and encompasses the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes cinematic responses to such events as the ‘Arab Spring’, genocide in Rwanda, war in the Far East, the recent economic crash in Europe and dictatorships in Latin America and Europe. These areas are illustrative but by no means prescriptive.
We are interested in papers which consider but are not limited to:
* The representation of both the individual and group experience of trauma – and the relationship between these – on a local, national and/or transnational level.
* Politicisation of trauma: the depathologising, institutionalising and instrumentalisation of trauma.
* The ways in which trauma is exploited for commercial gain in cinema.
* Films that are non-canonical and that therefore offer alternative takes on the representation of trauma.
* Trauma and congnition, including the representation and repurcussions of, inter alia, amnesia, hypermnesia, memory, inherited trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and disassociation.
* Transnational approaches to the themes.
* Aesthetics of trauma.
* Ethical debates concerning trauma and film.
* The representation of the effects on the agents – or perpetrators – as well as the victims of trauma in film.
* The relationship between truth and reconciliation processes and trauma.
* Any new theoretical and critical frameworks which illuminate the representation of trauma.
Please send 200-300 word abstract and a brief biography to Nick Hodgin (n.hodgin@lancaster.ac.uk) and Amit Thakkar (a.thakkar@lancaster.ac.uk) by Friday April 25th 2014.
The Departments of English and Creative Writing and Linguistics and English Language are pleased to present the latest speaker, Professor Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), in their interdisciplinary research seminar series. Professor Bal is a cultural theorist, critic and video artist:www.miekebal.org and she will be speaking at a number of events:
Weds 26th March, Auditorium, The Storey (http://www.thestorey.co.uk/), 6-7.30pm, showing of Madame B(www.madamebproject.com), followed by a lecture and Q&A, 8-9pm. All Welcome!
Thursday 27th March, supervisions with PGR students, 10am-12pm (LICA B138). Please contact Arthur Bradley (a.h.bradley@lancaster.ac.uk) if you would like to book a tutorial with Professor Bal.
Thursday 27th, Postgraduate Research Seminar 1-2pm, Bowland North Seminar Room 07: ‘Telling, Showing, Showing Off: the social issues of display’ (the reading for this seminar can be obtained froms.ruston@lancaster.ac.uk).
For more information, please contact Sharon Ruston (s.ruston@lancaster.ac.uk).
Mon 24 Feb 2014 – 19:00
The Gallery, Dukes arts centre, Lancaster
Costumes are central to the pleasures of Gothic film, from Bela Lugosi’s cape to Helena Bonham-Carter’s corsets. But they are more than just spectacle – they are often a key part of what makes a film ‘Gothic’. This talk will trace the history of costume in Gothic cinema and explore the meaning behind some of its most iconic looks.
Dr Spooner is a Senior Lecturer with Lancaster University’s English and Creative Writing Department, who specialises in Gothic in literature, film and popular culture. She has published three books on the subject and contributed to the British Film Institute’s Gothic: The Dark of Heart of Film compendium.
Talks are in The Dukes Gallery Places and are free but please book a ticket from the Box Office.
Liminal Landscapes: assembly, enclosure & the West Lancs coast
David Jacques in conversation with Dr. Les Roberts
Tuesday 11th March, 2014
6pm – 8pm
Lecture Room 3, Foster Building,
University of Central Lancashire,
Preston, PR1 2HE
Free – click here (http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/liminal-landscapes-assembly-enclosure-the-west-lancs-coast-tickets-10211479811) to book a ticket
In Certain Places is proud to present an evening with artist David Jacques, in conversation with Dr. Les Roberts, lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool.
N.B: Due to the storms on Wednesday 12th February, this event has been rescheduled. Please note the change of venue to Foster Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Click here (http://www.uclan.ac.uk/visit/assets/preston_city_campus_map.pdf) for a map of the campus.
The event, which is the second in the Practising Place programme, will also present Jacques’ new film, The Dionysians of West Lancs. Described by the artist as ‘a phantom ride’ along the West Lancashire coast, the film weaves together historical topography, rave culture and Greek mythology to examine the age-old tension between enclosure and freedom of assembly which continues to shape this landscape.
These themes will be further explored by Les Roberts, who will present his research into sites of liminality, including the treacherous terrains of the Dee Estuary and Morecambe Bay.
Through conversation, Jacques and Roberts will discuss the power struggles, both past and present – such as the current controversy surrounding ‘fracking’ – which define such places, and outline a political reading of liminal landscapes.
About the speakers:
David Jacques is a multi-media artist primarily involved with film. His practice engages with the subject of History, its narrative interpretations and the interplay between factual and fictional strategies of representation. His interest in deconstructing and re-apportioning the subject often results in the exploration of forgotten, marginalised and socially / politically disruptive sources. In 2010 he won the Liverpool Art Prize and was shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize. Recent screenings of his work include; Tate Liverpool ‘Art turning Left’, 17th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Novi Sad Serbia, WNDX Film Festival, Winnipeg Canada and Sheffield Fringe at BLOC Projects Sheffield. He lives and works in Liverpool.
David Jacques on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user5423212
Les Roberts’ research interests and practice fall within the areas of urban cultural studies, cultural memory, and digital spatial humanities. His work explores the intersection between space, place, mobility, and memory with a particular focus on film and popular music cultures. He is author of Film, Mobility and Urban Space: a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool (2012), editor of Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice and Performance (2012) and co-editor of Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (2013), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between (2012), and The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections (2010).
For information on research activities and publications see http://www.liminoids.com
Practising Place is a new two-year programme of public conversations, designed to examine the relationship between art practice and place. Each event will be hosted at a different venue in the North of England, and will explore a specific aspect of place by bringing artists together with people from different backgrounds, who share a common area of interest.
Practising Place forms part of the In Certain Places (http://www.incertainplaces.org) project, which is based at the University of Central Lancashire and funded by the Arts Council of England.
Click here to visit the Practising Place (http://www.practisingplace.org) website.
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