CFP: Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe

An International Conference hosted by Film Studies and the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, Oxford Brookes University and held at Lincoln College, Oxford, 6 – 8 July 2006

With European cinemas becoming increasingly determined by multi-cultural and multi-ethnic presences and themes, critical paradigms which examine these cinemas in terms of their national specificity do not adequately address the shift from the national to the transnational which has occurred in all areas of European cinema during the past twenty-five years. This conference seeks to explore how migrant and diasporic filmmakers have redefined our understanding of European cinema. By adopting a comparative perspective in our search for the commonalities and specificities between migrant and diasporic cinemas across different European countries, we endeavour to transcend the borders and limitations of an analytical framework that privileges the concept of discrete national cinemas.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Professor Hamid Naficy, Rice University, Texas

Professor Dina Iordanova, University of St. Andrews

Professor Robert Burns, University of Warwick

Pawel Pawlikowski, independent filmmaker (Last Resort, My Summer of Love)

The conference is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is the first of a series of events organised by a Research Network which contributes to the AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme.

Please visit the conference website for further details and a downloadable Call for Papers: http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/migrant_cinema

Please send a proposal of 200 - 300 words for a paper of approx. 20 minutes, together with your contact details and a brief biographical note to the following email address: dberghahn@brookes.ac.uk

The deadline has been extended to 27 January 2006. Please mark subject box 'Migrant cinema conference'.

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Katie Roche
AHRC Programme Administrator
Diasporas, Migration and Identities
Address: Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 113 3437838
Fax: +44 113 3433654
email: k.a.roche@leeds.ac.uk
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk