[ecrea] Conference Exoticism in Contemporary Transnational Cinema

*Exoticism in Contemporary Transnational Cinema:*

*Music and Spectacle***

*Humanities and Arts Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of 
London*

*Friday, 16 June 2017*

*Senate House and 11 Bedford Square, London*

This interdisciplinary conference explores exoticism, understood as a 
highly contested discourse on cultural difference as well as an alluring 
form of alterity that promotes a sense of cosmopolitan connectivity. 
Presentations and discussions will revolve around the question how the 
collapsed distances of globalisation and the transnational flows of 
media and people have transformed exoticism, which is no longer 
exclusively the projection of Orientalist fantasies of the Other from 
one centre, the West, but which emanates from multiple localities and is 
multi-directional in perspective.

Bringing together researchers with special interest and expertise in 
contemporary transnational and world cinema, film music and 
ethnomusicologists, this conference examines how contemporary 
transnational cinemas imagine the exotic, paying particular attention to 
the role of sound, music and spectacle.

*Keynote speakers: *

Professor Rachel Dwyer, SOAS

Professor Song Hwee Lim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr Laudan Nooshin, City, University of London

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*_Conference Registration (9-9.30)_*

*Welcome Coffee and Tea (11 Bedford Square)*

*_Panel 1 (9.30-10.50)_*

*1A: Historical Exoticism/Exoticising History *

“The Man or the Mandolin?: Anthony Firingi, Cultural Memory and the 
Making of a Star”

Priyanka Basu, The British Library, Asian and African Collections

“Silent Travelogues as/and Popular Ethnomusicology? The Musical 
Mediation of Tibet in London’s Everest Film Performances, 1922-1925”

Julie Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London

“Unnecessary Pasts: Earning the Pleasure in World Heritage Cinema”

Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds

*1B: Exoticism on Screen: Past and Present *

“Jazz and Opera in Film: Musical Representations of Exotic Utopias and 
Dystopias in /Cabin in the Sky/ (1943) and /Le Rossignol/ (2005)”

José Dias and Angela Kang, Manchester Metropolitan University

“Restoring and Digitising the Exotic: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema 
Project”

Jean-Baptiste de Vaulx, Royal Holloway, University of London

“Musicking Against the Grain: Tanya Tagaq and /Nanook of the North /(1922)”

Ho Chak Law, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

*_Keynote (11-11.50)_*

“My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves: Imagining Goa and Goans as Exotic in 
Hindi Cinema”

Professor Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema, School 
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

*12-1: Catered Lunch*

*_Session 2 (1-2.20)_*

*2A: Citizens of the World: Travel, Cosmopolitanism and Global Exoticism *

“‘YOLO’: The Consumable Exoticism of the Travel Film”

Koel Banerjee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

“Persian Calligraphy and Chador: Iranian Contemporary Art and the 
Undying Self-exoticism”

Mohsen Biparva, Independent Scholar

“Central American Cinema and the Appeal of Global Exoticism”

Luis Fallas, Newcastle University

*2B: Diasporic Filmmaking: Self-Exoticism and the Commodification of 
Difference *

“Seeing Themselves Through Western Eyes? Diasporic Filmmakers as 
Purveyors of the Exotic”

Daniela Berghahn, Royal Holloway, University of London

“Exoticism and Representations of Otherness in the Cinema of Fatih Akin”

Sarra Kassem, Independent Scholar

“The Politics of Exotic in Chinese Diasporic Films”

Sarah Fang Tang, University of Nottingham

*_Keynote (2.30-3.20)_*

“The Exotic in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas”

Professor Song Hwee Lim, Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of 
the Centre for Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

***/3.20-3.40: Coffee Break/*

*_Session 3 (3.40-5)_*

*3A: Music, Sound, and Silence *

“The Othering of a Musical Gesture in Hollywood and Bollywood: 
Construction of New Identities through the ♭2”

Sarah Moore, Independent Scholar

“Music in Films of a State-less Nation: Kurdish Films in Eastern 
Kurdistan (Iran)”

Mojgan Etemad, Royal Holloway, University of London

“Margins & Extremes in Contemporary Filipino Cinema: Silence, Ellipses, 
Chaos & Cacophonies in Lav Diaz’ /Ang Babaeng Humayo /(The Woman Who 
Left) & Brillante Mendoza’s /Kinatay /(Butchered)”

John-Patrick Ayson, State University of New York, Buffalo

*3B: Appropriation, Adaptation and Exoticism *

“Exoticism and Appropriation: Representing and Assimilating Others and 
Their Music in Hindi Film Songs”

Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway, University of London

“Using Exoticism to Make Sense of Shakespeare: Examining the Mousetrap 
Sequence in /Haider”/

Koel Chatterjee, Royal Holloway, University of London

“Exoticism is in the Listening: Hindi Film Song Reception in 
Post-colonial Ghana”

Katie Young, Royal Holloway, University of London

*_Keynote (5.10-6)_*

"Windows onto other Worlds. Musical Exoticism in Iranian Cinema: Between 
National Imaginary and Global Circulation”

  Dr Laudan Nooshin, Reader in Ethnomusicology, City, University of London

*Wine Reception (6-7)*

*Conference registration* is £30.00 (£20 concession rate available for 
students)**

*Deadline for registration is Friday, 9th June 2017 *

Please register by clicking on the following link:

*Standard Rate*: 
http://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/product-catalogue/events-and-conferences/harc/exoticism-in-contemporary-transnational-cinema-music-and-spectacle-standard-rate

*Concession Rate*: 
http://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/product-catalogue/events-and-conferences/harc/exoticism-in-contemporary-transnational-cinema-music-and-spectacle-concession-rate

If you have any queries about the conference, please contact the 
conference organisers

Professor Daniela Berghahn (Department of Media Arts), Professor Anna 
Morcom (Department of Music) and Katie Young at 
(exoticismconference /at/ rhul.ac.uk) <mailto:(exoticismconference /at/ rhul.ac.uk)>

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