[Commlist] cfp: action heroines in the twenty-first century

Bournemouth University (BU) in collaboration with Wolverhampton 
University presents 'Action Heroines in the Twenty-First Century: 
Sisters in Arms', hosted by the Narrative, Culture and Community 
Research Centre.

We very much look forward to welcoming you to our upcoming conference to 
be held at Bournemouth University, June 2022. Please find the full 
programme below and a link for registration
Register at
https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/narrative-culture-community-research-centre/action-heroines-twenty-first-century-sisters-arms

ACTION HEROINES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: SISTERS IN ARMS

WEDNESDAY 8TH JUNE -  ONLINE:
16.45 BST - WELCOME AND OPENING PANEL (Zoom links to follow)
17.00-18.30 PANEL 1 ACTION HEROINES IN ASIAN FILM AND TELEVISION
Alicja Bemben (University of Silesia) – Sisters in Arms, or How 
Collectivity Facilitates an Individual’s Agency
Gauri Durga Chakraborty (Bennett University) – Lady Gangsters in 
Bollywood: Locating Action and ‘Angry Young Women’ in Rural India
Liao Zhang and Jiyoung Kim (University of Nottingham) – Ajumma in Arms: 
The Rejuvenation of Aging Women in Contemporary South-Korean 
Action-Comedy Films
Yongde (Dennis) Dai (University of Macau) – Modern Mulan Tales: Iron 
Girls from Socialist Revolutionary Cinema to Main Melody Military Action 
Blockbusters

THURSDAY 9TH JUNE  - BOURNEMOUTH TOWN CENTRE
19.00-23.00  PRE-CONFERENCE DINNER

FRIDAY 10TH JUNE  - BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY, TALBOT CAMPUS
09.30-10.00  REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 10.00-11.15 PANEL 2 FEMININITY AND 
FEMINISM: FROM CHARLIE’S ANGELS TO WOMEN AT WAR

Lavinia Brydon (University of Kent) – Activist Heroines: The Eco-Warrior 
and her Sister
Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University, London) – ‘Once Upon a Time, There 
Were Three Little Girls’: The Enduring Attractions of Charlie’s Angels
Aviva Dove-Viebahn (Arizona State University) – Exploring the Second 
Closet: Feminine Power and Knowledge in Charlie’s Angels (2019)

11.15-11.30 COFFEE 11.30-12.30 KEYNOTE
Professor Yvonne Tasker ( University of Leeds)

12.30-13.45 PANEL 3 GENDER POLITICS AND CINEMATIC SUPERHEROINES

Christopher Holliday (King’s College, London) – Hollywood Cinema’s Nasty 
Women
Laura Crossley (Bournemouth University) – ‘I Know My Value’: Feminism, 
Femininity and Transgression in Marvel’s Agent Carter
Miriam Kent (University of Leeds) – ‘I’m Not The Killer That Little 
Girls Call Their Hero’: Action Femininities in Marvel Studio’s Black Widow

12.30-13.45 PANEL 4 ACTION HEROINES TAKING OVER THE SMALL SCREEN

Mareike Jenner (Anglia-Ruskin University) – Recycling Action Heroes: The 
‘Gender Swap’ in Contemporary Action TV Re-Boots
Mathieu Arbogast (CEM/CNRS) – Armed and Dangerous: Police Women in TV 
Series, A New Equality of Arms
Frances Gateward (Howard University) – ‘Isn’t That the Whole Idea of 
Starfleet?’: Star Trek Discovery as Female-Driven Science Fiction

13.45-14.30 LUNCH 14.30-16.00 PANEL 5 VIOLENCE AND AGENCY IN ACTION 
NARRATIVES

Helena Bassil-Morozow (Glasgow Caledonian University) – Harley Quinn, 
the Female Trickster: Emancipated or Stereotyped?
Marianne Kac-Vergne (University of Picardie Jules Verne) – Sisters in 
Arms in Terminator: Dark Fate
Rebecca Wright (Cardiff University) – Violence and Collective Agency in 
Mad Max: Fury Road, Terminator: Dark Fate and Birds of Prey
Emma Payne (Cardiff University) – ‘Am I Your Bitch Now?’: The Sound of 
Subversive Fighting in Atomic Blonde

16.00-16.15 COFFEE
16.15-17.45 PANEL 6 RACE, SEXUALITY AND THE EVOLVING ACTION HEROINE

Liz Hendy (University of Chester) – Hollywood Needs More Gender-Fluid 
Cyborg Lesbian Heroes: Exploring Sarah Connor’s Emerging Queer Identity 
in Terminator: Dark Fate
Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton) – ‘I’ve Been Here Before, Over 
and Over Again…and I’m Just Tired of it’: Advancing the Action 
Genre/Heroine in The Old Guard
Jenny Alexander (Bournemouth University) – ‘Nubian Queen Rise’: The 
Black Queer Action Heroine, Sisterhood and the Closet
Esmé Fransen (Stockholm University) – Be Gay, Do Crime? The Construction 
of Ocean’s 8 as a Lesbian Heist Movie

17.45 PLENARY
18.15 DRINKS RECEPTION AND CLOSE


Please contact Christa Van Raalte at (cvanraalte /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) or 
Fran Pheasant-Kelly at (f.e.pheasant-kelly /at/ wlv.ac.uk) for any queries or 
further information

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