[Commlist] CFP: Women in East Asian Cinema conference

*Call for Papers: **Women in East Asian Cinema*

*A Chinese Film Forum UK Conference*

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*HOME, Manchester <https://homemcr.org/>**

*4 – 6 December 2019*

*Keynote Speaker: Dr Jinhee Choi, King's College London***

Recent interventions into global film and processes of canonisation have 
worked to highlight the contributions of women in spaces and discourses 
previously dominated by men. Yet, despite these social and academic 
movements, women remain under-represented across vital areas of film 
culture as recent discussions of the 2019 Oscars and the 2018 Cannes 
Film Festival have shown. This event aims to highlight the increasing 
English-language research of contributions by self-identifying women in 
East Asian cinema and to interrogate questions of representation, 
labour, and production contexts. For English speaking fans, academics 
and researchers based outside of East Asia, this work is all the more 
important as a counter to the limiting and selective problems of 
international film festivals and regional distribution.

This three-day conference seeks to bring together researchers of women 
in East Asian cinema for a mix of panels, workshops, and film events 
with industry guests to continue and develop these ongoing 
conversations. The event is hosted as a collaboration between the 
Chinese Film Forum UK (CFFUK), a Manchester-based collective, and HOME, 
Manchester's leading independent cross-art venue and cinema. 2019 marks 
ten years since “Visible Secrets: Hong Kong's Women Filmmakers”: a film 
season that was organised by a nascent CFFUK at HOME's old Cornerhouse 
venue. This year also marks HOME's year-long programming initiative 
“Celebrating Women in Global Cinema” which continues the celebratory, 
research-led and consciousness raising work of that original Visible 
Secrets project.

This conference invites papers on a variety of topics concerning women 
in East Asian cinema. We take a loose definition of “East Asia” - 
including considerations of diaspora, for example – to encourage 
submissions from those who may feel limited by narrow geographical 
boundaries.

Topics include though are not limited to:

  * Case studies of directors, producers, and crew members
  * Case studies of significant industry figures
  * Case studies of stars
  * Representation
  * Historiographies and redressing the canon
  * Generations – i.e. old age, girlhood
  * Spaces for women's voices
  * Questions of labour and industry practices
  * Production histories
  * Herstories
  * Women in East Asian diasporas

*150-200 word proposals for a 20-minute paper presentation and a short 
biography, or queries, should be sent by Monday 29th April 2019 to 
**(Felicia.Chan /at/ manchester.ac.uk) <mailto:(Felicia.Chan /at/ manchester.ac.uk)> 
with “WEACconf” in the email’s subject line. Panel submissions welcome.*

Conference organisers for the CFFUK are Dr Felicia Chan, University of 
Manchester; Dr Fraser Elliott and Rachel Hayward, HOME; and Professor 
Andy Willis, University of Salford.

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