[Commlist] CFP Women and cinema in Iberoamerica - International Conference

International Conference

Women and Cinema in Ibero-America: politics, histories, representations, 
intersectionality

University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M)

Getafe Campus, Madrid, Spain

21, 22 & 23 September, 2022


Organised by:

Research Group “Television-cinema: memory, representation and industry” 
(Tecmerin) [www.tecmerin.es <http://www.tecmerin.es>] UC3M

University Institute of Spanish Cinema UC3M


Deadline: 16 May 2022

contact: (tecmerin /at/ uc3m.es) <mailto:(tecmerin /at/ uc3m.es)>

Full info and submissions: 
http://eventos.uc3m.es/go/mujeresycineiberoamerica 
<http://eventos.uc3m.es/go/mujeresycineiberoamerica>


*Call for papers*


In recent years, we have witnessed a strengthening and popularisation of 
the feminist movement that has made a particular impact on 
Ibero-American countries, where effective transnational campaigns have 
emerged. Framed within a Fourth Wave, these demonstrations give renewed 
urgency to demands related to violence against women, reproductive 
rights, or equal representation in all sectors. Also connected to social 
protests against the neoliberal resurgence, contemporary feminisms 
embrace intersectionality as a framework for analysing social injustice 
and alliances with ecological, anti-racist, or decolonial movements and 
perspetives, among others.

Filmmaking, as a cultural, social, and political practice, has not been 
foreign to this push, as seen in a host of phenomena: the greater 
participation of women in the film industries, the increase in films 
dealing with complex and diverse gender experiences, the rise of 
associations and collective practices, the greater awareness of public 
institutions aiming to address gender inequalities and the consolidation 
of films made by women as an academic field of study.

This international conference aims to become a point of encounter and 
reflection between scholars, professionals, and cultural agents 
interested in analysing the situation and role of women in 
Ibero-American cinema, as well as the impact of contemporary feminism on 
film culture and its academic approach, without overlooking its social 
dimension. The conference is divided into three main areas covering film 
policies and the logics of production and circulation, representations, 
narratives and film languages, and theoretical and historiographical 
perspectives; all of that with special stress on intersectionality as an 
analytical sensitivity that provides a plural and complex outlook, where 
gender is examined in relation to other axes of power or inequality. It 
also aims to delve into the transnational and historical networks in the 
region and the dynamics of cultural, capital, and human mobility 
fostered by filmmaking from a gender perspective.


Submissions may include the following topics/research fields:


*Politics, production, circulation*

- Public discourses and policies to promote gender equality in 
Ibero-American cinema at national, regional, and supranational levels.

- Manifestations and impact of feminism (associations, collectives, 
discourses, agendas) to reshape the film and audiovisual sector.

- Studies on the labour market and incorporation of women, from 
production (executive, creative and technical positions) to circulation 
(distribution, curatorship, promotion, etc.).

- Modes of production favoured by women filmmakers and creative 
contributions from other professions.

- Circulation and reception of films made by women, whether commercial 
or non-commercial (experimental, documentary, militant, collective, 
community, etc.).


*Representations*

- Languages, aesthetics, and representations of cinema made by women 
that challenge dominant gazes and formulate a counter-canon of feminist 
thought and practice.

- Gender perspectives in the study of genre, authorship, and stardom.

- The themes and motifs of the feminist agenda opened to questions such 
as environmentalism, racism, anti-capitalism, migration, and decolonial 
critique.

- Intersectional perspectives on film representations (race, ethnicity, 
age, disability, sexual orientation, social class.)


*Histories*

- Historiographical reviews focusing on women’s contributions to cinema 
that incorporate intersectionality or transnationality as analytical 
pillars.

- Updates on the theoretical perspectives and analytical categories of 
feminist film theory.

  - Methodological, theoretical, and practical proposals on sources for 
the study of cinema made by women and the preservation and conservation 
of these sources and film collections.

- Contributions to historiography by film critics and its redefinition 
through digital platforms.

- Contributions of women academics to film history and study of the 
links between academia, feminist activism, and film practice.


*SUBMISSION FORMATS*

The conference accepts proposals in Spanish, English, or Portuguese 
until May 16, 2022, in any of the following formats:

- Individual papers: individual presentations lasting up to 20 minutes.

- Pre-constituted panels of three or four papers with a maximum of 20 
minutes of speaking time per paper.

- Audiovisual essays of up to 15 minutes. In collaboration with 
Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays 
[http://tecmerin.uc3m.es/en/journal 
<http://tecmerin.uc3m.es/en/journal>] a monograph will be published on 
the theme of the conference in which these papers may be included after 
a peer-review process.


The conference offers the possibility for the papers to form part of a 
digital publication with an ISBN in the repository of the University 
Carlos III of Madrid. An editorial committee will select the 
publications that will finally form part of this volume.


Authors are required to provide their name, institutional affiliation, 
email address, the title of the paper, an abstract (max. 300 words), and 
a short bio of the speaker (max. 150 words). In the case of 
pre-constituted panels, each speaker is asked to submit information on 
the individual paper, as described above, and the panel title. In all 
cases, the submission should be made through the following form 
(registration required: username and password): 
http://eventos.uc3m.es/go/mujeresycineiberoamerica 
<http://eventos.uc3m.es/go/mujeresycineiberoamerica>


*REGISTRATION FEE*

All conference participants must pay the registration fee once the 
acceptance of the proposal has been confirmed. The registration form 
will be available in June 2022 and up to the conference’s opening.


Early registration (up to July 31, 2022)

- PhDs: 75 €

- Postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD candidates): 30 €


Late registration (from August 1, 2022)

- PhDs: 100 €

- Postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD candidates): 45€


Postgraduate students will be required to prove to be enrolled in a 
postgraduate program during the year 2021/2022.


*ORGANIZED BY*

- Research Group TECMERIN (Television-Cinema: Memory, Representation and 
Industry), University Carlos III of Madrid.

- University Institute of Spanish Cinema, University Carlos III of Madrid.


*WITH THE SUPPORT OF*

- The Institute of Women, Ministry of Equality, Spanish Government.

- R+D+i “Cinematic Cartographies of Mobility in the Hispanic Atlantic’ 
(CSO2017- 85290-P), funded by the State Research Agency, Ministry of 
Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government and co-financed by 
the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

- R+D+i “Film and Television in Spain in the times of the Digital Turn 
and Globalization (1993-2008): identities and practices of production 
and consumption” (PID2019-106459GB-I00), funded by the State Research 
Agency, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government.


*IN COLLABORATION WITH*

- Department of Communication & Media Studies, UC3M

- Master’s Degree in Film and Television, UC3M

- Master’s Degree in Film and Television, UC3M

- Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays

- MYC Association of Women and Cinema (Mujeres y Cine)


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