BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Moving Image: Reconfiguring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st Century - An Interdisciplinary Conference on Cinema - Multiple Speak ers\, see Programme for details DTSTART:20100226T190000Z DTEND:20100226T171500Z UID:TALK23264@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Multiple Speakers DESCRIPTION:26 - 27 February (Fri & Sat)\n\nCenter for Research in the Art s\, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)\n17 Mill Lane\nCambridge CB2 1RX\n\nThis conference will explore the aesthetic and institutional origin s and characteristics of the recent efflorescence of 'mourning films' afte r Trauma Studies and in the wake of the Benjaminian 'age of mechanical\nre production'.\n\nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1042/\n\n*Online Regist ration until February 20*\n\nProgramme:\nFriday 26 February\n\n09:00 - 09: 30 Registration at CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge\n\n09:30 - 09:45 Welc ome\n\n09:45 - 11:00\n\nJay Winter (Yale University)\nMoving images: From silent film to film silences in war films\, 1914-2009\n\nChair: Richard Ar mstrong (University of Cambridge)\n\n11:00 - 11:15 Coffee and tea\n\n11:15 - 13:00 Panel I: Imaginary Memories\n\nChair: Emma Wilson (University of Cambridge)\n\nMarion Schmid (University of Edinburgh) Phantoms of the Pre sent: Mourning\nand Memory in Chantal Akerman's 'Histoires d'Amerique' (19 89)\n\nColin Davis (Royal Holloway\, University of London) Film as Shipwre ck:\nActing-Out and Working-Through in Jean Renoir's 'The Woman on the Bea ch'\n(1947)\n\nColin Murray Parkes (Author\; Honorary Consultant Psychiatr ist\, St\nChristopher's Hospice\, Sydenham and Consultant Psychiatrist\, S t Joseph's\nHospice\, Hackney) Death Games - What are the Rules?\n\n13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at CRASSH\n\n14:00 - 15:45 Panel II: Histories of Mourning\n \nChair: Isabelle McNeill (University of Cambridge)\n\nLisa Downing (Unive rsity of Exeter) On the Fantasy of Childlessness as\nDeath in Psychoanalys is and in Roeg's 'Don't Look Now' (1973) and von\nTrier's 'Antichrist' (20 09)\n\nJenny Chamarette (University of Cambridge) Mourning a Life not yet over:\nAgnès Varda's spectral bodies and temporalised spaces\n\nEmma Wils on (University of Cambridge) Museum Spaces in Palliative Art:\nMariana Ote ro's 'Histoire d'un secret' (2003)\n\n15:45 - 16:00 Coffee and tea\n\n16:0 0 - 17:30 Panel III: Spectrality\nChair: Olga Smith (University of Cambrid ge)\n\nAlex Dougherty (University of Cambridge)\n'God's Funeral': Tragic S pace and Cinema\n\nLaura McMahon (University of Cambridge)\nThe Justice of Images: Derrida and Nancy on Film\n19:30\nConference dinner at King's Col lege (speakers only)\nSaturday 27 February\n09:15 - 11:00 Panel IV: The Li ving Dead\n\nChair: Marie-Christine Clemente (University of Cambridge)\n\ nMax Silverman (University of Leeds) Loss and the concentrationary Image\n \nKristian Feigelson (Université Paris 3)\nTheresienstadt\, living among the dead...\n\nLibby Saxton (Queen Mary\, University of London)\nGrief\, H orror and Filiation in 'La Question Humaine' (2007)\n\n11:00 - 11:20\nCoff ee and tea\n\n11:20 - 13:00 Panel V: The Lamentation\n\nChair: Axel Banger t (University of Cambridge)\n\nOmri Grinberg (Hebrew University\, Jerusale m\, Walter Benjamin Fellow\,\nPAIDEIA\, The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden) A Flooding\nThirst - Grieving Space in 'Atash' (2004) a nd Noah's Ark\n\nAriella Azoulay (Bar Ilan University\, Ramat Gan)\nCivil Lament and Political Imagination (with screening of short film)\n\n13:00 - 14:00 Lunch\n\n14:00 - 15:45 Panel VI: Resurrection\n\nChair: Amanda Mine rvini (Brown University)\n\nRichard Armstrong (University of Cambridge)\nL a 'Diva du Deuil': Towards a Pantheon of Mourning Women\n\nSong Hwee Lim ( University of Exeter) Slowness\, Nostalgia\, Cinephilia: Tsai\nMing-liang and the Discursive Death of Cinema\n\nMartine Beugnet (University of Edinb urgh)\nMourning in the Age of the Digital: Memory\, loss and materialist f ilmmaking\n\n15:45 - 16:00 Coffee and tea\n\n16:00 - 16:45\n\nCarol Mavor (University of Manchester) Blue is the Colour of Impossible\nMourning: Cha ntal Akerman's 'La Captive' (2000)\n\nChair: Anna M. Elsner (University of Cambridge)\n\n16:45 - 17:15 Roundtable\n\nClose\n\n\nThis event is genero usly supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts\, Social Sciences an d Humanities (CRASSH)\, The French Embassy\, the Society for French Studie s\, the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University a nd Lenore Ruben.\n LOCATION:CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR