[ecrea] CFP Women in Iberian Cinema

International Symposium
*WOMEN IN IBERIAN CINEMA*
University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities
Lisbon, Portugal, 11-12 September, 2017

*Keynote speakers:*
Begoña Soto (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)
Hilary Owen (University of Oxford/University of Manchester, UK)

The call for papers is now open for the International Symposium ‘Women 
in Iberian Cinema’, an interdisciplinary event organised by the research 
group ‘Cinema and the World – Studies on Space and Cinema’, to be held 
at the Centre for Comparative Studies in the University of Lisbon School 
of Arts and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal, on 11 and 12 September 2017.

Women have always occupied a peripheral position within the world of 
film. While female characters, particularly protagonists, are scarce, 
and women’s subjects tend to be framed through a male gaze, significant 
contributions made by women to film production and criticism are often 
dismissed and/or underrepresented in film canons, historical archives 
and official narratives. For instance, according to the “Celluloid 
Ceiling” report conducted by the Centre for the Study of Women in 
Television and Film at San Diego State University, USA, only 4% of the
100 highest earning movies in 2016 were directed by women, and 29% were 
led by female characters.

Despite the international visibility of filmmakers including Isabel 
Coixet, Iciar Bollaín and Teresa Villaverde, to name but a few, in 
Spain, barely 8% of the films produced every year are directed by women. 
In Portugal, only 40 feature-films were directed by women between 1946 
and 2009: that is less than one film per year. Focused on the cinemas of 
Portugal and Spain, this symposium aims to bring together researchers 
from different disciplines working on women and their status in relation 
to any aspect of Iberian cinemas. Our aim is to launch a debate about 
the position of women in cinema that draws insight and at the same time 
contributes to study fields as varied as Film Studies, Comparative 
Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Queer Studies and 
Postcolonial Studies.

This symposium will contribute to expanding debates about the position 
of women in the cinemas of Portugal and Spain through a revision of 
feminist and postfeminist theory, as well as new accounts of film 
history. It also aims to promote comparisons between Iberian cinemas 
from all regions, a topic that is almost unexplored in academia, despite 
the similar histories of the two countries, particularly throughout the 
twentieth century.

We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations and/or pre-constituted 
panels of max. 3 speakers. The event’s working languages will be 
English, Portuguese and Spanish. Early-career researchers are especially 
encouraged to apply. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
• Female characters, subjects and representations in specific regional,
national and/or transnational contexts;
• Gender and genre in the cinemas of Portugal and Spain;
• The role of women in the film industry, from early to contemporary cinema;
• Case studies of women directors, producers, screenwriters and
below-the-line staff;
• Female stars in Portugal and Spain;
• Feminist and postfeminist approaches to film studies in different eras;
• Women and censorship, propaganda, or politics more generally.

Please send 300-word abstracts and a brief biographical note addressed 
to the organisers, Elena Cordero and Mariana Liz, to 
(womeniniberiancinema /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(womeniniberiancinema /at/ gmail.com)> 
by 9 June 2017. The symposium will also include a roundtable on women in 
Portuguese cinema, with guest directors, producers and programmers. More 
details will soon be
available online, at
http://www.comparatistas.edu.pt/en/events/upcoming-events/international-symposium-women-in-iberian-cinema.html 


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