[Commlist] Irish Screen Studies Seminar 2021

*Ulster University, Magee Campus (Derry), is pleased to host the 16th 
Irish Screen Studies Seminar, to be held online on 6-7 May 2021.*
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*Please get your free tickets for this event by registering through 
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    About this Event

The Irish Screen Studies Seminar provides a unique platform for the 
presentation of new work - research, practice, and research through 
practice - by scholars and filmmakers from third-level institutions in 
Ireland, as well as those working on Irish screen-related topics in 
other universities and colleges worldwide.

The seminar is aimed at academic researchers and practitioners in film 
and screen cultures in the broadest sense, touching on audio, film, 
television, digital media, transmedia, digital games and related 
interdisciplinary activity. The ISSS actively promotes the exchange of 
ideas and offers postgraduate and early career researchers and 
practitioners an ideal opportunity to present evolving screen-related 
research and practice in a constructive and encouraging forum. 
Conference papers will be archived on the Irish Screen Studies website.

We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers for the 
conference will be Prof John Hill, Professor of Film Studies at Royal 
Holloway London and Dr Liz Greene, Reader in Film and Sonic Arts at 
Liverpool John Moores University.

*Here is the conference program:*

*16th Irish Screen Studies Seminar May 6,7 2021 Online Event*

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*6th May Day 1 (Welcome: 9:45) Opening Remarks: Brian Bridges (UU, Magee)*

*10.00 - 12.00 Panel 1: Narrative Encounters, Subjectivity & Power*

-Cinematic VR and the Transgressive Shot (Alan Hook, UU, Coleraine)

-Essayistic Portrait: Limits of Representation (James Mulvey, UCC)

-Institutional Acts of Watching in Irish Cinema: Surveillance, Power and 
the Camera (Sandra Costello, UCC)

- A Political Economy of Audiovisual Industrial Production: How does the 
State Wield Power? (Maria O’Brien, Future Screens)

*Chair:*Murat Akser (University of Ulster at Magee)

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*12.15 – 1.45 Panel 2: Emigration, Cultural Heritage & Culture Wars*

-Telling Our Story: Sharing the Experiences of Irish Emigrants Through 
Film (Daithí McMahon, Derby)

-Do not Forget Your Past: The Role of Irish Cultural Heritage in Tomm 
Moore’s Irish Folklore Trilogy (Yago Paris)

-‘All This Anarchy’: Representations of the IRA within The Long Good 
Friday and British Crime Films (James Shelton, Independent Scholar)

*Chair:* Maria O’Brien (DCU)

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*2.30 - 4.00 Panel 3: Vampires, Villains and Victims*

-Fangs in the Mist: The Irish Roots of the Cinematic Vampire (Gerard 
Gibson, UU, Magee)

-“This is just how things are”: An Analysis of the Contemporary Slasher 
Film Cycle, Trauma & ‘Lucky’ (John Kavanagh, UU, Magee)

-Transmitted Orally: Demon Possession Horror, Popular Feminism(s) and 
Popular Misogyny (Máiread Casey, NUI, Galway)

-*Chair:* Jennie Carlsten (UU, Coleraine)

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*4.30 Keynote 1: The Beginning of Troubles Drama in the 1970s*

John Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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*7.00 Pub Quiz *(Quiz Masters: Gerard Gibson & John Kavanagh, UU, Magee)

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*7th May Day 2 (Welcome: 9:45) Opening Remarks: Murat Akser (UU, Magee)*

*10.00 - 11.30 Panel 4: Muscular Masculinity, Euro Sport & Wildlife 
Filmmaking*

- The Hyperbolic White Body: Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1980s Cinema and 
Becoming America (Odin O’Sullivan, UCD)

- Sport in European Cinema: ‘Play for the People Who’ve Accepted You’ 
(Seán Crosson, NUI)

- Wildlife Filmmaking in the Age of Extinction (Carter McCormick, UCC)

*Chair: * Victoria McCollum (UU, Magee)

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*11.45 - 1.45 Panel 5: Alternative Methodologies in Film Research*

-Popular Music and “Composite” Scoring in the Films of Baz Luhrmann 
(James Denis Mc Glynn, UCC)

-‘See the Sea’ as ‘Queer Thriller’ (Peadar Kearney, Maynooth U.)

-Viewing the Screen "As If" (Marija Laugalyte, UCC)

-Queer Filmmaking Practice: Strategies for Resistance (Kevin Gaffney, 
UU, Magee)

*Chair: * Conn Holohan (NUI Galway)

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*2.30 Keynote 2: Researching audiovisually: experiments in videographic 
criticism in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980) and Blue Velvet (1986)*

Liz Greene (Liverpool John Moores University)

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*4.00 -5.00 Workshop with Q&A: Screen Studies in the Time of Covid*

How film scholars have managed during the past year:

- Missing the Cinematic Experience: Jennie Carlsten (UU, Coleraine)

- Creative Practice: Victoria McCollum (UU, Magee)

- The PhD Experience: Máiréad Casey (NUI, Galway)

- Research & Archives: Aaron Hunter (TCD)

*Facilitators:* Jennie Carlsten (UU, Coleraine) Aaron Hunter (TCD)




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