[ecrea] CFP Liberation struggles, the ‘falling of the empire’ and the birth [through images] of African nations

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS

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*Liberation struggles, the ‘falling of the empire’ *

*and the birth [through images] of African nations*

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Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures, University of Reading, Reading

27^th January 2016

Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture, King’s College, London

28^th January 2016

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Coordinator: Maria do Carmo Piçarra

The fortieth anniversary of Portuguese decolonisation of Africa has
acted as a catalyst in discussing how Portugal ‘imagined’ colonial
politics through moving images and how these propagandist portrayals
began to be questioned by the Portuguese ‘Novo Cinema’.  This can be
seen in works that were censured and prohibited. Portuguese colonial
cinematographic representations were later challenged by films made in
the context of the liberation movements and by images that emerged out
of the national cinematographic projection (Frodon) of the new
Portuguese-speaking African countries.

This conference intends to go some way in highlighting common aspects in
the emergence of cinema in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, which
have all been studied individually.  In addition, it will provide a
reflection on the roots of the emergence of the ‘New Cinema’ from the
militancy that uses film as a means of changing society and focussing on
the birth [in images] of new nations, being projected by the programs of
the Marxist parties that assumed power. The aim of the conference is
also to analyse how, through ‘Third Cinema’, the ‘Cinema Novo’ of Brazil
and Cuban Cinema, more specifically, in addition to the authors of the
French ‘Rive Gauche da Nouvelle Vague’, all played a role in questioning
and rupturing the colonial representations of the Portuguese
dictatorship and, most of all, in the formation of the projects and
cinematographic archives of emerging African nations.

This conference also intends to question, apart from the reasoning of
nationalist propaganda, how did these new countries tell the story of
their own history through film and cinema (Godard/Ishaghpour)?  Finally,
it will be discussed how, given the ‘urgency of the present’, the
redemption of the past (Benjamin) is realised through a ‘cinema of
resistance’ (Deleuze), such as that of Pedro Costa, and by other moving
images artistic practises?

Communication proposals (of up to 300 words) will be received until the
*21^th November* 2015 through the conference email address
((alephconferencia /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(alephconferencia /at/ gmail.com)>).
Proposals will be reviewed and decisions communicated early *December*.
Examples of topics can be found below:

- Internationalist cinema and the filmed emergence of nations

-       “Imagined” colonialisms. From colonial and militant propaganda
cinema to a “cinema of resistance” (Deleuze)

-       Contributions towards a genealogy of New Cinema(s). From nations
to people

-       (Post-)Colonial representations

-       Intermediality on colonial and post-colonial representations and
decolonization of the moving images

-   From censorship processes to images “in spite of everything”
(Didi-Huberman).

-       (Post)colonial genre(s)

-       Artistic practices and investigations regarding the “colonial
archive”

-       Neocolonialism in moving images

*Organising committee *

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Lúcia Nagib, director of the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures,
University of Reading

João Paulo Silvestre, Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture,
King’s College London

Rosa Cabecinhas, Head of the PhD Program in Cultural Studies (University
of Minho and University of Aveiro) and Associate Professor at the Social
Sciences Institute, University of Minho

Maria do Carmo Piçarra, postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Film
Aesthetics and Cultures, University of Reading / Communication and
Society Research Centre, University of Minho / CEC – FLUL / University
of Lisbon

Abdoolkarim Vakil, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American
Studies & Department of History, King’s College London

José da Costa Ramos, Professor at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

*Specialists and invited artists*

Ana Balona de Oliveira, postdoctoral researcher, CEC – FLUL / University
of Lisbon / Institute for Art History of the New University of Lisbon

Catarina Laranjeiro, filmmaker and doctoral researcher, CES – University
of Coimbra

Daniel Barroca, artist

Filipa César, artist

José Manuel Costa, director of Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema

Lee Grieveson, director of the Graduate Programme in Film Studies at
University College London and co-principal investigator of  ‘Colonial
Cinema: Moving Images of the British Empire’

Maria Benedita Basto, professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 8

Paulo Cunha, researcher, CEISXX – Universidade de Coimbra

Pedro Costa, filmmaker

Raquel Schefer, artist and professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3

Robert Stock, professor, University of Konstanz

Ros Gray, theorist and lecturer in Fine Art (Critical Studies),
Goldsmiths College, University of London

Teresa Castro, art historian and professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
– Paris 3

*Supporting institutions *

Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures, University of Reading

Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture, King’s College

Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho

Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema

Aleph - Rede de investigação e conhecimento crítico da imagem colonial


Maria do Carmo Piçarra

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