[eccr] Cinema, War and a Society of Spectacle (8th-9th June)

>Members may be interested in the following event, at which fellow network 
>members are presenting (programme below): In particular, there is a panel 
>on Media and War at 14.00-16.00 on the Thursday.
>
>Cinema, War and a Society of Spectacle
>8-9 June 2005
>CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
>
>For more information visit the website: 
><http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk>http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
>
>The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities 
>(CRASSH), in association with the Cambridge University Film Seminar
>
>This conference will interrogate the interplay between the events of war 
>and their representations in film and video. While certain representations 
>suppress the tensions and ambiguities contributing to a war's emergence 
>and its devastation, thinkers such as Virilio, Baudrillard, Zizek and 
>others have turned a reflexive gaze upon our voyeuristic fascination with 
>war. A search for total visibility through film and attention to 
>instantaneous fragments of 'real time' characterize current 
>representations of war in screen media. But the thoroughness of our 
>cultural saturation provokes questions concerning the dangers of such 
>image assimilation. To what extent is our gaze aligned with insidious 
>modes and bodies of power that participate in games of surveillance and 
>paranoid rationalisations? How and why do images of destruction, which are 
>disseminated at the speed with which weapons are engaged, enthral and 
>mesmerize? How are these images a means to identity creation, at the cost 
>of certain exclusions and inclusions? What is at stake in the expansion of 
>a 'society of spectacle'?
>
>Enquiries about the academic content of this conference should be sent to 
>the convenor, Nadine Boljkovac  at (nrb34 /at/ cam.ac.uk)
>Please direct any administrative enquiries to (events /at/ crassh.cam.ac.uk)
>
>Programme
>
>Please note this programme is provisional and subject to change. Please 
>check back for updates.
>
>Wednesday 8 June
>13.30-14.00
>Registration
>
>14.00-14.20
>Welcome remarks by Nadine Boljkovac and Ferzina Banaji
>
>14.20-15.20
>Keynote Address
>Did Pontecorvo Show It All?
>Charles Jones (Director, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of 
>Cambridge)
>Chair: Paul Julian Smith (Cambridge)
>
>15.20-15.45
>Tea and Coffee
>
>15.45-17.45
>Panel 1 - National Cinemas
>
>Lebanese Cinema and the (Re)definition of War Memory
>Lina Khatib (University of London)
>
>The Return of the Battle of Algiers
>Sylvie Durmelat (Georgetown University)
>
>Locating the Absent Subject in the 'War on Terror': Towards a 'Political 
>Poetics' in Samira and Mohsen Makhmalbaf's New Iranian Cinema
>Anna Ball (University of Manchester)
>
>Humiliation, Imagination and the Art of Living in Palestine
>Adania Shibli (University of East London)
>
>  Chair: Terence Wright (University of Ulster)
>
>17.45-20.00
>Break and Wine Reception
>
>20.00-22.00
>Screenings
>
>Excerpts: LivingTomorrow and entanglements
>Linda Wallace (Amsterdam)
>
>Accidents of Memory
>Joan Grossman (New York)
>
>His Instructors Have Described Him as an Unmotivated Student
>John Greyson (Toronto)
>
>Weaponized Video: The Tactics of Dissenting Voices
>Mason Dixon (Chicago)
>
>Chair: Maureen Thomas (Cambridge)
>
>Thursday 9 June
>09.00-11.00
>Panel 2 - Surveillance and Control
>
>Theory on the Technology of War Propaganda and Video War Games
>Susan Cavin (New York University)
>
>Operational Media
>Jordan Crandall (University of California, San Diego)
>
>'The frontiers of the State pass to the interior of the cities'
>Anne Bottomley (University of Kent)
>
>I, Camera: Pure War and the Exclusion of the Social
>Nathan Moore (Birkbeck College, London)
>
>Chair: Alan O'Leary (Cambridge)
>
>11.00-11.30
>Tea and Coffee
>
>11.30-13.00
>Panel 3 - Hollywood Goes to War
>
>DreamWorks and Vision Machines: Seeing (Through) Saving Private Ryan
>Patricia Molloy (University of Toronto)
>
>Visceral Images: The War Film in the Age of 'Intelligent Weapons'
>Robin Curtis (Freie Universität Berlin)
>
>Hollywood Reloaded: New Imperial Adventures
>Scott Forsyth (York University, Canada)
>
>Chair: Emma Wilson (Cambridge)
>
>13.00-14.00
>Lunch
>
>14.00-16.00
>Panel 4 - Media and War
>
>The Ambivalent Vigil: Media, Art and Terror
>David Teh (University of Sydney)
>
>Where Are the Airplanes?: The Air War Against the Air War in the War 
>Against Iraq
>Linda Robertson (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
>
>The Bin Laden Tapes
>Andrew Hill (University of Ulster)
>
>The Aesthetic Turn in War Coverage Transnational Broadcasting and the War 
>Against Iraq
>Matteo Stocchetti (Arcada Nylands Svenska Yrkeshögskola)
>
>Chair: Georgina Born (Cambridge)
>
>16.00-16.30
>Tea and Coffee
>
>16.30-17.30
>Closing Keynote Address
>The Visual Polemic: A Filmic Tradition
>Nicole Brenez (University of Paris and Cinémathèque Française)
>
>Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova (Director of CRASSH)

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