[ecrea] Symposium: Cine-Ethics - University of Kent

Cine-Ethics: A Symposium and Anthology on Ethics and Cinema

University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
GLT3, Wednesday, 15 June 2011

It can be argued that film studies has seen an “ethical turn” over the past decade, as emerging trends in film theory and criticism have shifted focus from cinema's ontological and epistemological domains to its ethical aspects. This symposium will visit the issues of ethics manifest in the films of Dziga Vertov, Jean Renoir, Oshima Nagisa, Michael Haneke and The Sopranos. The speakers will explore diverse methodologies such as the philosophy and criticism of Thomas Nagel, Henri Agel, Alain Badiou, and Carl Plantinga, alongside historical studies of discourse and distribution.

Schedule.

10:00-11:00:
Dr. Malcolm Turvey. Vertov and the View from Nowhere
(Respondent: Dr. Vince Bohlinger)

11:10-12:10:
Dr. Sarah Cooper. Morality and the Cinema of Contemplation: Henri Agel and Jean Renoir
(R: Dr. Libby Saxton)

1:30-2:30:
Professor Lúcia Nagib. The Ethical Imperative and the Politics of Pleasure
(R: Professor Elizabeth Cowie)

2:40-3:40:
Dr. Mattias Frey. The Ethics of Extreme Cinema
(R: Dr. Will Norman)

4:00-5:00:
Professor Murray Smith. Murder Ballads
(R: Dr. Margrethe Vaage)


Sponsored by:
The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image

Organized by:
Dr. Jinhee Choi
Dr. Mattias Frey


More information (including abstracts and brochure) is available to be downloaded on:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/film/filmcentre/cine-ethics.html

Selected papers from the Symposium will form the core of an anthology on Cinema and Ethics. In order to round out the volume, we are soliciting proposals for essays on this topic. Please send a short (150-250 words) abstract and a brief author bio to Dr. Jinhee Choi ((j.choi /at/ kent.ac.uk)) and Dr. Mattias Frey ((m.j.frey /at/ kent.ac.uk)) by 1 August 2011.


Dr. Jinhee Choi,
Senior Lecturer of Film Studies
School of Arts, Jarman Building
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent
CT2 7UG


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