[ecrea] Conference: Civil Rights Documentary Cinema and the 1960s

*BRITISH ACADEMY LANDMARK CONFERENCE*

Civil Rights Documentary Cinema and the 1960s: Transatlantic 
Conversations on History, Race and Rights

*The British Academy, London*

*24-26 May 2016*

This conference is co-sponsored by the Centre for Research in Race and 
Rights, the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University, the 
University of Leicester and the University of Birmingham.

This conference - held in memory of American social activist, politician 
and leader in the civil rights movement Julian Bond (1940-2015) - brings 
together documentary filmmakers, activists, and film, history and media 
scholars. Its focus is films based in civil rights history and inspired 
by it. It will promote a trans-Atlantic exchange of ideas around film 
production, activist subjects, and historical research in the making of 
civil rights cinema, civil rights history and cultural memory. It 
examines race and rights - activism, massive resistance, film and visual 
cultures - to intervene creatively in the history of the 1960s and in 
the historiography of the civil rights movement.


http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2016/Civil_Rights_Documentary_Cinema.cfm

The convenors are:

   * Prof. Sharon Monteith, Founding Co-Director of the Centre for
     Research in Race and Rights, University of Nottingham
   * Dr George Lewis, University of Leicester
   * Prof Nahem Yousaf, Nottingham Trent University
   * Dr Helen Laville, University of Birmingham

Speakers and filmmakers:

   * John Akomfrah OBE, Smoking Dogs Films and co-founder of the Black
     Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), artist and filmmaker, UK
   * Dr Reece Auguiste, documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Black
     Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), University of Colorado, US
   * Eduardo Montes-Bradley, director of /Julian Bond: Reflections from
     the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement/ (2012),  writer and
     director with Heritage Films Project at the University of Virginia, US
   * Professor Clayborne Carson, selected in 1985 by Mrs. Coretta Scott
     King to edit and publish the papers of her late husband Martin
     Luther King, Jr. is Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of
     History at Stanford University, US
   * Professor Jon Else, documentary filmmaker and Professor of
     Journalism at UC Berkeley, US, was co-producer and cinematographer
     on Henry Hampton’s /Eyes On The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years
     /(1987)
   * Matthew Graves, Southern Documentary Film Project, University of
     Mississippi, US
   * Professor Peter Ling, University of Nottingham, UK
   * Professor Allison Graham, documentary filmmaker and historian and
     co-producer of /At the River I Stand/, University of Memphis, US
   * Judy Richardson, documentary filmmaker and co-director of /Scarred
     Justice/ and co-produced Blackside’s /Malcolm X: Make It
     Plain/,former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
     Committee (SNCC), and education consultant throughout the production
     of /Eyes on the Prize/, US
   * David Shulman, director of /Ballots & Bullets in Mississippi/, as
     well as /Race Against Prime Time /(1985) and /Everyone’s
     Channel/ (1990), a history of alternative media used to counter
     racist speech, US and UK
   * Professor Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford, UK
   * Professor Clive Webb, University of Sussex, UK

*Films screened will include selections from the ground-breaking 14-hour 
documentary series /Eyes on the Prize/ /I /(1987) and full screenings of:*

   * */At the R/**/iver I Stand/ (1993);*
   * */Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968 /**(2008), aUK
     premiere; *
   * */Rebels: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss/** (2012)a
     UK premiere; *
   * */The March/** (2013);*
   * */Ballots and Bullets in Mississippi/** (aka /Dirt and Deeds in
     Mississippi/, 2015)*

*To view the programme and to register* for the conference please visit 
the British Academy event page 
<http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2016/Civil_Rights_Documentary_Cinema.cfm>.
In conjunction with the conference, there is will also be a free event 
to honour Julian Bond, including the screening of /Julian Bond: 
Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement /with its 
director Eduardo Montes-Bradley on Tuesday 24^th  May.

Please register for this separately at the British Academy event page 
<http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2016/Julian_Bond.cfm>.



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