Feminism(s): Film, Video and Politics Symposium
By Ezra Winton, March 16, 2007 Comments (1)
The deadline has passed for submissions to the Feminism(s) Symposium in film, video, performance and workshops, but it's not too late to attend. The conference takes place in West Hartford, CT, between April 20 and 22nd, and will have the following speakers (among others): Abigail Child, Dara Greenwald, Jeanine Oleson, Maureen Turim and Sasha Waters. Fore more details read on...
This symposium will be a catalyst for dialogue and collaboration among feminist scholars, filmmakers, artists, activists and curators. Contemporary feminist film and video work will be screened and discussed in round table format. Papers will be presented on critical questions surrounding the intersections of feminist politics,scholarship, and media production. The symposium will also include workshops in the spirit of activist media projects such as Pink Bloque and Pilot TV.
Anticipated topics for presentations include:
Community Based Cinema and Alternative Distribution
Women in the Avant-Garde
Psychoanalysis and Film
Phenomenology and Embodiment Theories
Trauma Theory
War and Spectatorship
New Media and Feminism
Appropriated Media and Feminist Reconstructions
Performance and Film
Queer Media
Capitalism and Spectacle
Post-Colonialism and Third Cinema
Futures for Feminist Media Theory and Practice
Organized by the University of Hartford Cinema Department. Support for this symposium was provided by The Women's Education and Leadership Fund, a Legacy of Hartford College for Women at the University of Hartford.
For more on this conference visit the site or write to Jennifer Higginbotham.
(Image courtesy of Linnaea borealis blogspot).
I'm sorry I didn't hear about this conference until after the deadline, but I hope to submit our brand-new global documentary about camerawomen and the challenges that they face to next year's conference. (Our film includes pioneer camerawomen from Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, China, England, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, South Korea, the U.S. and other countries, and deals with the discrimination some of them face [including being groped by Arnold Schwarzenegger; having to sue the union and the networks to get work; being the first camerawomen in the New China in 1949 and travelling with Mao Ze Dong; filming chemical warfare in Iraqi Kurdistan; etc.] Will you put us on your mailing list? Thanks! Alexis Krasilovsky, Director, "Women Behind the Camera"
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