[ecrea] CFP: "Crossing Borders, Traversing Narratives" PG Symposium, 11 February 2015, University of St Andrews

Crossing Borders, Traversing Narratives

A Postgraduate Symposium of Film and Screen Studies

11 February 2015, University of St Andrews, Scotland



The very recent history saw issues related to nation and nationality 
re-emerge steadily, often aggressively, questioning and reframing 
notions such as identity, citizenship, or the irreversibility of 
globalisation as a border-dissolving, unifying process. In this context, 
investigating narratives of the displaced and of displacement, as well 
as their production, representation, distribution and reception, appears 
to be an increasingly complex, varied, and challenging process.


Crossing Borders, Traversing Narratives aims to re-interrogate cinema's 
relationship with the notion of geographical border, and the subsequent 
effects of this relationship. This one-day symposium is meant to provide 
an inclusive exchange platform for postgraduate students in the fields 
of film and screen studies, whose interests either lie in, or can be 
applied to, this particular area.


Keynote Speaker: Dr Shohini Chaudhuri (University of Essex)


Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to:

Diasporic cinemas

Migrant and diasporic filmmakers

Multicultural communities and cinema

On- and off-screen identities of displacement

Issues of distribution and exhibition. Diasporic film festivals

Translation, adaptation, assimilation (thematic, stylistic)

Cross-border politics, activism, civic engagement

Fluid chronotopes

Intersections of nation with race, gender, sexuality, class, religion

Formal and genre variations


Proposals with a brief abstract (250 words) for a 20-minute paper, as 
well as a short biographical note, should be submitted to Andrei 
Gadalean ((amg21 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)). The deadline for all proposal 
submissions is 21 December 2014.

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Andrei Gadalean
PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant

Department of Film Studies
University of St Andrews
99 North Street
KY16 9AD
St. Andrews
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)7518 076892
E-mail: (amg21 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)

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