[Commlist] Affirmative Feminism Seminar Series

We would live to invite you to the Affirmative Feminism Seminar Series: 
A series of three panel conversations exploring possible futures through 
affirmative statements and initiatives within contemporary film and 
digital screen culture.

This seminar series places in conversation researchers and professionals 
of the film and screen industryon the topic ofaffirmative initiatives in 
film production, representation and distribution, that is, acts or 
images that go beyond a lamentation of the status quo and produce 
feminist alternatives and possible futures.

The search for an affirmative feminism arises from the observation that 
feminist narratives are often created through negation and opposition. 
In contrast to narratives that lament women's lack of power compared to 
men, affirmative arts produce models of gender and power that are fluid 
and in constant transformation rather than embedded in dichotomies. 
Following philosopher Rosi Braidotti's work on 'affirmative ethics', 
affirmative arts use the limitations to our 'freedom' as a foundation 
for creating alternative futures, proposing solutions for enhancing our 
political, social, spatial freedom. Instead of presenting characters 
that are alienated by the binary systems of gender, race, sexuality, 
ability or class, affirmative films present narratives and aesthetic 
forms that manifest as what Braidotti would call 'micropolitical 
instances of activism'. This theory is at the core of a feminist 
initiative to promote a fair, inclusive and diverse future. Taking an 
affirmative approach in one’s work is thus being critical of the present 
without being annihilated by it.


This series of events emerges from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie research 
project 'Affirmative Post-Cinema: Narrative and Aesthetic Responses to 
Gender and Power'.This is also the subject of the recently published 
monograph by Maud Ceuterick, organiser of the seminar series, 
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women: Gender, Space and Mobility in 
Contemporary Cinema(Open access and available 
here:https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030370381 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030370381>).

The seminar series will take place digitally on 3 consecutive Fridays in 
March, with the participation of the following panelists:

12th of March 10-12am CET: Production/networks/policies

Amanda Coles, Arts and Cultural Management / Employment Relations, 
Deakin University
Helene Granqvist, Producer and President of Women in Film and Television 
International
Marcela Stolzmann, Producer at AdoAto Pictures, Amsterdam

19th of March 11-1pm CET: Aesthetics/representation

Anna Backman Rogers,Professor of Culture, Aesthetics and Feminist Theory 
at the University of Gothenburg
Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City 
University London
Illya Szilak, Artist, Writer and VR Filmmaker of Queerskins

26th of March 10-12am CET: Curation/distribution

Miriam De Rosa, Senior Lecturer and Curator in cinema and contemporary 
visual arts, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Nadia Dresti, International Advisor, Locarno Film Festival
Mathilde Henrot, Programmer at the Locarno Film Festival, and co-founder 
of Festival Scope and Festival Scope Pro
Skadi Loist, Professor of Production Cultures in Audiovisual Media 
Industries, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


The seminars will take place on Zoom. Please register to receive the 
link (at the latest one day ahead of each 
event):https://forms.gle/1eydbzDdYQ7vaJWx5 
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