[Commlist] Online Symposium: Women's Auto/biographical Cinemas

Online symposium:

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/Women’s Auto/biographical Cinemas: The Gendered Story/

An Online Symposium,27 and 28 November 2021,University College Cork

Symposium website:https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/research/symposium/ 
<https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/research/symposium/>

Follow us on Twitter:@UCCStoryteller <https://twitter.com/UCCStoryteller>

 From the world’s largest film producing industries and cinemas such as 
Hollywood, Bollywood, European, to diasporic, Third World, 
Post-colonial, Middle Eastern, and even nascent industries from 
conflict-ridden regions such as Afghanistan, ‘women filmmakers’ and 
‘women’s cinema’ remain classified as a separate category (feminist or 
otherwise) within film studies. Similarly, their auto/biographical 
cinemas, inextricably linked to portrayals of personal and experiential 
histories, remain a peripheral area. Particularly, recognition of women 
filmmakers whose works reflect an alternative ‘lived’ history from a 
personal and feminist lens merits attention and critical discussion of 
their gendered representations.

With a focus on autobiography, biography, first-person, diary, and essay 
films, the Women’s Auto/biographical Cinemas: The Gendered Story 
Symposium focuses on discussion of the contribution of global 
women/feminist filmmakers who have used the film medium to record, 
archive, and disseminate women’s stories, to share their experiences, 
build cross-cultural solidarity for change, consciousness-raising, and 
pedagogical purposes.

The symposium will include two live events, both starting at 5 p.m. 
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), UTC +0. The events will be held on Saturday 
27 and Sunday 28 November, respectively, both on MSTeams. Closer to the 
date, the links for the live events will be published on the symposium 
website and announced on social media and subject lists.

Event 1

Saturday 27 November 2021, 5–6.30 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), UTC +0

In Conversation: Penny Siopis + Sarah Nuttall

Event 2

Sunday 28 November 2021, 5–7 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), UTC +0

Round Table: Women’s Auto/biographical Cinemas

A set of pre-recorded talks will be available for viewing online from 
the symposium website during the two weeks prior to the symposium.

Three films by Penny Siopis – /My Lovely Day/, 1997; /Obscure White 
Messenger/, 2010; and /The New Parthenon/, 2016 – are already available 
for viewing on the symposium website.

Speakers:

Dr Laura Busetta (University of Messina)

Dr Brenda Hollweg (University of Leeds)

Dr Rahat Imran (University College Cork)

Prof. Bill Nichols (San Francisco)

Prof. Sarah Nuttall (University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg)

Prof. Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork)

Penny Siopis

Prof. Lizzie Thynne (Sussex University)

Dr Kiki Tianqi Yu (Queen Mary, London)

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Organisers:

Dr Rahat Imran, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow
Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, Ireland
Email: (nazsfu /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(nazsfu /at/ gmail.com)>, (imran.rahat /at/ ucc.ie) 
<mailto:(imran.rahat /at/ ucc.ie)>

Professor Laura Rascaroli
Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, Ireland
Email: (l.rascaroli /at/ ucc.ie) <mailto:(l.rascaroli /at/ ucc.ie)>

The symposium is organized as part of the H2020 MSCA-IF project, 
/Locating the Storyteller: Muslim Women’s Auto/Biographical Cinema from 
the Muslim World./

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 
research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie 
grant agreement No 837154.

Symposium website:https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/research/symposium/ 
<https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/research/symposium/>

Follow us on Twitter:@UCCStoryteller <https://twitter.com/UCCStoryteller>

Department of Film and Screen Media at University College 
Cork:https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/ <https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/>

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