[ecrea] Symposium: Documentary and the Environment

Documentary and the Environment: A One Day Symposium at the University 
of Surrey Friday 14th September 2012



All events will take place in the Nodus Building, University of Surrey, 
Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH. Information on how to get to the 
University and a map of the campus can be found at 
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/about/visitors/



9.00 – 9.30 Registration and Welcome



9.30 – 11.00 Panel 1 Talking Categories

John Duvall, (Dominican University of California) ‘Sub-Genres of the 
Environmental Documentary’

Sandrine Lage, (Sorbonne University, Paris) ‘The inscription of the 
documentary Le Syndrome du Titanic in the French public debate about 
ecology’

Tam Yee-lok, (City University of Hong Kong) ‘Three Ecologies Embodied: 
Body, Environment and Capitalism in Chinese Coal Mining Documentaries’



11.00-11.30 Coffee Break



11.30 – 13.30 Panel 2 Communicating Crisis

Amanda Katili Niode, (Indonesian National Council on Climate 
Change/DNPI) ‘Climate Change in Our Backyard’

Geo Takach, (University of Calgary in Alberta) ‘Documentary, dissent, 
and Alberta’s bituminous sands’

Tatiana Signorelli Heise (University of Manchester) ‘From shock tactics 
to green sensibility: the environmental turn in animal-advocacy films’

Reina-Marie Loader, (University of Exeter) ‘The Living Documentary: the 
Ethical Representation of Environmental Issues with Socio-Political 
Implications’



13.30 – 14.30 Lunch (own arrangements)



14.30- 16.00 Panel 3 Local Stories

Alasdair Oldham, (University of the West of England) ‘Documentary made 
sustainable : The Bristol Bike Project, from grassroots workshop to 
globalised audience.’

Anne Marie Carty (filmmaker) & Dr Dafydd Sills-Jones (Aberystwyth 
University), ‘Portraying ‘Aunti Beti’: The Environment, The Individual 
and the Landscape’

Sam Christie (Aberystwyth University) & Paul Newland (Aberystwyth 
University), ‘Cantre'r Gwaelod and Tales of Inundation’



16.00 – 16.30 Tea Break



16.30 – 17.30 Panel 4 Eco-Entertainment

Vincent Campbell, (University of Leicester) ‘“Weather Porn”: The Shift 
from Documentary to Factual Entertainment’

Christine Cornea, (University of East Anglia) ‘Eco-tainment: the case of 
Life After People (History Channel, 2008)’





17.30 – 18.00 Final Discussion: The Future of the Eco-doc




Dr Helen Hughes
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
School of Arts
University of Surrey
01483 682837
(h.hughes /at/ surrey.ac.uk)

----------------
ECREA-Mailing list
----------------
This mailing list is a free service from ECREA.
---
To unsubscribe, please visit http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
---
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Postal address:
ECREA
Université Libre de Bruxelles
c/o Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences
CP123, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, b-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
----------------