[ecrea] 'Childhood and Nation in World Cinema’ Conference

*Childhood and Nation in World Cinema *

*Leverhulme Network Conference*

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*Royal Holloway *

*(University of London)*

*18– 19^April 2016*

It is with great pleasure that we announce our final conference
‘*Childhood and Nation in World Cinema*’. The meeting is set to take
place *April 18 – 19, 2016* at the Royal Holloway (University of London)
in Egham, United Kingdom*.* The conference is sponsored by the
Leverhulme Trust.


Figuring filmic representations of the child is an important recent
trend in cinema studies. Adult cultural investments in the child are
acknowledged whilst the most exciting work simultaneously pushes at the
boundaries of film theory to create a new cinematic politics of
childhood in filmic portrayals of the child’s experience. This
conference aims to take forward children’s perceptions of, and
involvement in, screen representation.  At the same time, it
acknowledges the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood
in adult cultural and social consciousness, as it is explored through film.

*Confirmed keynote speakers*

Professor Daniela Berghahn (Royal Holloway)

Professor Karen Lury (Glasgow)

Professor David Martin-Jones (Glasgow)

*Highlights*

  * Screening of Catherine Grant's video-essay about the work of Annette
    Kuhn: /Interplay/, followed by a dialogue between Catherine Grant
    and Annette Kuhn.
  * Screening of /Little Soldier/ followed by Q&A with director, Stella
    Corradi, and producer, Carol-Mei Barker.
  * Mark Reid (British Film Institute) will deliver a lecture on film
    education programme /Le Cinéma Cent Ans de Jeunesse./
  * Paul Cooke (with respondent Kelly Royds) will lead the illustrated
    discussion “Engaging Young People with Difficult Pasts 
through Film”
  * The formal dinner will be held in the Picture Gallery, Royal
    Holloway’s historic art collection, after a Child-centred Paintings
    talk with Harriet O’Neill (Royal Holloway).

For abstracts, conference programme and more, visit:

http://childnationcinema.org/events/international-conference/

http://childnationcinema.org


The Organisers,

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*Network Partners*

Principal Investigator: Dr Sarah Wright (RHUL)

Professor Emma Wilson (Cambridge)

Professor Stephanie Hemelryk-Donald (UNSW)

Dr Zitong Qiu (NIT, Ningbo)

*Network Facilitator*

Dr Lidia Merás (RHUL)

*Project Associates*

Sebastian Secker Walker (RHUL)

Dr Jordana Blejmar (Liverpool)



*Dr Lidia Merás*

Network Facilitator

Childhood and Nation in World Cinema

Leverhulme Trust, International Research Network

School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Royal Holloway, University of London, TW20 0EX

Tel:(+44) 1784443753 <tel:%28%2B44%29%201784443753>

childnationcinema.org


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