[Commlist] Spotting Red Flags Symposium

WIth the usual apologies for crossposting, we would like to circulate a 
reminder about the */Spotting Red Flags Symposium/*, taking place on 
Monday, June 9, 2025, at King’s College London.

This in-person symposium will examine the politics of red flags and 
toxic romance on-screen, and the event is generously supported and 
sponsored by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen 
Studies (BAFTSS), the Department of Film Studies at King’s College 
London, and the British Association for American Studies (BAAS).

*_The symposium is free, but registration is essential._***Catering 
throughout the day is included and all are welcome. *Sign up here:* 
*spottingredflagssymposium.eventbrite.com* 
<http://spottingredflagssymposium.eventbrite.com/>

Program:

*09:45–10:00 /Welcome/*

*10:00–11:30 /Panel 1: Red Flag Politics/*

  * Catherine Wheatley (King's College London, UK) - "How to Tell a Slap
    from a Slug: A Film-Philosopher's Guide to Spotting Red Flags"
  * Harriet Idle (University College Dublin, Ireland) - "Urban
    Aesthetics, Gentrification, and Revisiting the London Rom-Com
    through Meta-Textuality in /Rye Lane/"
  * Louis Bayman (University of Southampton, UK) - "Investigating Creep
    Time, from the Incel to the Academic"
  * Matthew Hilborn (University College Dublin, Ireland) - "Tradwives,
    TikTok, and Red Flags: The Parodic Politics of RoRo Bueno"

*11:45–13:15 /Panel 2: Gendered Toxicities/*

  * Catherine Fowler (University of Otago, New Zealand) - "Before the
    Red Flags: Judith Godrèche and /Icon of French Cinema/"
  * Lingjun Wang (University of Leeds, UK) - "Red Flag Motherhood: Toxic
    Care and the Fantasy of the Good Mother in /A Little Reunion/"
  * Martin Hall (York St John University, UK) - "Toxic Relationships and
    Ageing Women in /Who You Think I Am/"
  * Lorenza Parisi et al. (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - "The
    Gendered Construction of Red and Green Flags in Teen Digital 
Intimacies"

*13:15–14:00 /Lunch/*

*14:00–15:15 /Panel 3: Seeing Red on Reality TV/*

  * Anna Dawson (Nottingham Trent University, UK) - "Is/MAFS /Blind? The
    Papering Over of Red Flag Behaviours in /Married at First Sight/"
  * Polina Zelmanova (University of Warwick, UK) & Ellie Smith
    (University of Warwick, UK) - "Queering the Red Flag: Narratives of
    Acceptable Lesbian Relationships in /The Ultimatum: Queer Love/"
  * Victoria K. Pistivsek (King's College London, UK) - TBC

*15:30–17:00/Panel 4: Happily Never Ever Afters/*

  * Anamarija Horvat (Northumbria University, UK) - "Red Flags, Shallow
    Graves and Queer Cinema: Or, What /Saltburn /Can Tell Us About
    Romance Narratives in Contemporary LGBTQ Film"
  * Vernon Shetley (Wellesley College, United States) - "'Murder Is
    Commitment': /Hit Man/ and the Killer Spouse"
  * Zélie Asava (Irish Film Classification Office, Ireland) - "Cultural
    Anxieties and Mixed Representations: Interracial Irish Romance
    Narratives"
  * Maria San Filippo (Emerson College, United States) - "Breaking Up as
    Breaking Out: Escape from Bergman Island"

*17:15–18:15**/Keynote Address/:* Mary Harrod (University of Warwick, 
UK) - "Flickers, Stutters, Shimmers, Warps: Romance without Ethics in an 
Age of Digital Subjectivity"

*18:15–19:30**/Drinks Reception/*

If you have any questions about the symposium, please get in touch at 
(spottingredflags /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(spottingredflags /at/ gmail.com)>

The /Spotting Red Flags Symposium /Organizing Committee is Victoria K. 
Pistivsek (King’s College London), Dr. Sarah Lahm (University of Leeds 
and York St John University), Dr. Matthew Hilborn (University College 
Dublin)

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