[ecrea] British Academy Conference: Civil Rights Documentary Cinema and the 1960s

  Civil Rights Documentary Cinema and the 1960s: Transatlantic
  Conversations on History, Race and Rights

Tuesday 24, Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 May 2016, 9.30am - 5.00pm
Venue: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

*Convenors:
Professor Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham
Dr George Lewis, University of Leicester
Dr Helen Laville, University of Birmingham
Professor Nahem Yousaf, Nottingham Trent University*

This conference - held in memory of American social activist, politician
and leader in the civil rights movement Julian Bond (1940-2015) - brings
together documentary filmmakers, activists, and film, history and media
scholars. Its focus is films based in civil rights history and inspired
by it. It promotes a trans-Atlantic exchange of ideas around film
production, activist subjects, and historical research in the making of
civil rights cinema, history and cultural memory. It examines race and
rights - activism, massive resistance, film and visual cultures - to
intervene creatively in the history of the 1960s and in the
historiography of the civil rights movement.

*Speakers include:*
*John Akomfrah OBE*, Smoking Dogs Films
*Dr Reece Auguiste*, University of Colorado, US
*Eduardo Montes-Bradley*, Writer and director with Heritage Films
Project at the University of Virginia, US
*Professor Clayborne Carson*, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and
Education Institute, Stanford University, US
*Professor Jon Else, *UC Berkley, US*
Professor Peter Ling*, University of Nottingham, UK
*Professor Allison Graham*, University of Memphis, US
*Matthew Graves*, University of Mississippi, US
*Ms Joan Trumpauer Mulholland*, Freedom Rider and former member of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
*Loki Mulholland*, Independent filmmaker
*Professor Stephen Tuck*, University of Oxford*
Professor Clive Webb*, Professor of Modern American History, University
of Sussex, UK


Further information:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2016/Civil_Rights_Documentary_Cinema.cfm

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