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[ecrea] Conference "Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory"

Sun Jun 08 12:50:41 GMT 2014






Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory

Conference organisers: Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine, Dr Nathalie Wourm, Dr Joanne Leal in conjunction with BRAKC (Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community). Conference 10th & 11th July 2014 - Room 414 Birkbeck Main Building, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX



Conference programme
This conference will set out to explore how concepts of family have been acted out, reinvented, or deconstructed, through various media including the visual arts, literature, and museum exhibitions, across the centuries. The family picture will be considered both in its figurative and artefactual forms. We will look at the significance of the family picture in literary works or films (e.g. W.G. Sebald, Georges Perec’s W, or the Memory of Childhood, or Pedro Almodovar’s All About my Mother), and we will consider alternative concepts of family and kinship as pictured in paintings, photographs, graphic novels, and other visual media. We are interested in media transfers, the question of what happens to family pictures when they are included in literary or visual narratives whether these are autobiographical or fictional. We aim to explore how different media reproduce or replace the family picture, or evoke it once it becomes lost (e.g. through ekphrasis). We are also interested in the types of narratives that are created in museums, social media and family albums, through displays of family pictures and portraits.

Key questions to be examined will include: what are the changing conventions of the family picture and how do they reflect the changing conceptions of the institution of the family? Who is the addressee of the family portrait? How do family narratives and family pictures inform each other? What is the role of family pictures in individual and cultural memory? Is the family a privileged site of memorial transmission (Aleida Assmann, Marianne Hirsch)? Has it become the central trope through which national history is framed? What role do family pictures play within other cultural forms, e.g. in literature or film? Can other cultural forms offer alternatives to the kinds of family portrait we associate with photography?

Keynote speakers are: Professor Martha Langford (Concordia University, Montreal), Professor Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University, London) and Professor Daniela Berghahn (Royal Holloway, London).



Registration & Payment:

Birkbeck staff and Birkbeck students   £15
Standard:  £30 &  £15 (non Birkbeck students)


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