[Commlist] 1st Conference - The Many Faces and Spaces of Precarity in the Moving Image

The Precarity Cinematic Research Network is glad to announce its 1st 
conference, "The Many Faces and Spaces of Precarity in the Moving 
Image," which will take place online via Zoom on 14th, 15th, and 16th 
December 2023.

We are also thrilled to confirm the participation of two keynote 
speakers: Prof Guy Standing and Prof Saskia Sassen

Organizers: Dr Francesco Sticchi (Oxford Brookes University) and Maria 
Elena Alampi (University of Exeter)

/The objective of this conference is to bring together academics working 
on the issue of precarity and its relationship with “the moving image.” 
However, this term has assumed various meanings and appears to encompass 
a broader social and emotional predicament. Ecological crises indicate a 
precariousness of existence and “the human” itself, while the sense of 
individualization and fragmentation resulting from an economy based on 
debt/credit connects with new authoritarian trends. A sense of political 
helplessness is often associated with these social forces that enact and 
perpetuate processes of marginalization, which in turn favor 
increasingly violent mechanisms of exploitation. However, mapping the 
various manifestations and contexts of precarity also offers an 
opportunity to recognize the multiplicity of a vulnerable world and its 
inhabitants, while simultaneously highlighting new forms of political 
subjectivity offering unprecedented trajectories of collective existence./

To secure your spot, please register through Eventbrite. Once 
registered, you will receive the Zoom link to join the conference.

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PROGRAMME:

“THE MANY FACES AND SPACES OF PRECARITY IN THE MOVING IMAGE”
*_UK TIME_*

*DAY ONE: 14th of December 2023.*

Welcome Remarks 9:00-9:20

1st PANEL: 9:20-10:40
Precarious Working Cultures
Catherine Gough-Brady: Precarity and Screen Creative Practice Human 
Research Ethics
Sophia Zhang: Producing Chinese Reality TV: Power, Precarity and Working 
Cultures
Emma Duester: A Longitudinal Study with Contemporary Visual Artists from 
Emerging to Established Career Stages

2nd PANEL: 11:00-12:20
Existentialist Visions and Precarious Relationality
Alessia Risi: ‘Can't we give ourselves one more chance?’ Exploring 
Precarity in Aftersun.
Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo: «On fera la vie tranquille»: Duras’ 
Existential Precarity, Nowadays
Jochem Kleinjan: Portraying precarity by producing precarity in Yeo Siew 
Hua’s A Land Imagined (2018)

3rd PANEL: 12:40-14:00
Postcolonial and Decolonial Gazes
Stella Lange: The Fragmentation of the White Apparatus in Med Hondo's 
Soleil Ô (1970)
Malini Guha: Precarious Images for Possible Futures: The Moving Image as 
Mobile Home
Aatika Singh: On Ephemerality of Emancipation-The Dalit Heroine in Karnan

Lunch Break 14:00-15:00

4th PANEL: 15:00-16:20
Welfare Crisis and Precarious Bodies
Raquel Martínez Martín:  Precarity, Austerity and (Im)mobility in 
Spanish Crisis Cinema: Yesterday Never Ends (Isabel Coixet, 2013)’
Melissa Oliver-Powell: ‘Domestic Waste Only’: Welfare Policy and 
Precarious Parenting in Ken Loach’s Austerity Dramas
José Duarte: “There is nothing particular about my life”: On the 
Precarity of Bodies in Motion and at Rest

5th PANEL: 16:40-18:00
Neoliberal Authoritarianism
Aidan Power: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Authoritarian 
Liberalism and Precarious Witnesses in Lazzaro Felice
Elina Reitere: Better than in Europe. Precarity in Latvian film industry 
as will-o’-the-wisp of European values.

KEYNOTE: *Prof. Guy Standing* 18:30 (approx. 90 min.)

*DAY TWO: 15th of December 2023*.
1st PANEL 9:00-10:20
The AI Question
Melanie Wilmink: AI monsters: machine visions of human-animal relations 
in the work of Unmake Lab
Claudio Celis Bueno and Pei-Sze Chow: Precarious Creativity: The use of 
generative AI in the film industry
Matthias Kispert: Workers leaving the cloud factory: visualising the 
digital precariat

2nd PANEL: 10:40-12:00
Urban landscape (Capitalist Time and Space)
Gert Jan Harkema: Neighbourhood films and cultural geographies of 
precarity and care in Dutch documentary filmmaking
Jacopo Francesco Mascoli: Capitalist Temporalities. Post-Fordism and 
Industrial Present in Italian Documentary.
Sebastian Lederle: Precarious effects of spatialization of film in post 
cinema.

3rd PANEL: 12:20:13:40
Cognitarians, Transfuges, and Class Intruders
Daniel Fairfax: Fragments of Neoliberalism in Jean-Gabriel Périot’s 
Adaptation of Retour à Reims
Elisa Cuter: Screening the Cognitariat. Precarious Intellectual and 
Artistic Labour in Contemporary European Cinema
Joule Zheng Wang: Living on the Precarity of Intrusion: Intrusion 
Complex and the Cinematic Figure of Real Estate Agent

Lunch Break 13:40-14:40

4th PANEL 14:40-16:00
Environmental Anxieties
Min-Kyoo Kim: Austerity, nuclear anxiety and the archive: Thatcher’s 
politics of precarity in Threads (1984)”
Evdokia Stefanopoulou: Necropolitics and ontological precarity in Vesper 
(2022).
Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera: Female adolescence and animals in recession 
films Nevia (Nunzia De Stefano, 2017) and Colo (Teresa Villaverde, 2017)

5th PANEL: 16:20-17:40
Ambiguous Precarities
Amy Wigelsworth: ‘Sandrine Bonnaire retrouvée’: space and mobility in 
Sans toit ni loi and Prendre le large
Pamela Robertson Wojcik: “Adrift: Precarity, Sexuality and Hitchhiking 
in Cinema”
Seung-hoon Jeong: Peacefully Pervasive Precarity: Nomadland, or, No 
Country for Old Frontiersmen

Keynote Lecture *Prof. Saskia Sassen* 18:00 (approx. 90 min.)

*DAY THREE: 16th of December 2023.*
1st PANEL: 9:00-10:20
Activism, Spectatorship and Mobilisation
Giuseppe Previtali: Pixelated Uprisings: Politics and/of Precarity in 
Revolts’ videos
Fotis Bekis: Softening the trauma?
Ian Towers: Political and Productive Strategies Responding/Resisting 
Dynamics of Precarisation

2nd PANEL: 10:40-12:00
Lived Experiences and Gendered Inequalities
James Fenwick: Precarity and Film Festival Programmers: Screening and 
Voicing Experiences of Work
Anne O’Brien: Precarious Women: Inequality and Screen Production
SK Abbasuddin and Syed Murtaza Alfarid Hussain: Precarity and Screen 
Leisure: The Vanishing Single-Screen Theatres and the Rural Underclass 
in India

3rd PANEL 12:20-13:40
The Care Economy
Akriti Rastogi: Practices of Care in Precarity: Mapping Cine-Work on 
Social Media
Mariz Kelada: Men Behind the Scenes: The Operationalization of Care in 
Egypt’s Visual Media Production
Wikanda Promkhuntong: Screen labour precarity and potentiality in 
(post)-pandemic Thailand

Lunch Break: 13:40-14:40

4th PANEL: 14:40-16:00
Dystopias, Precarious Spaces and Ecologies
Karim Townsend: Environmental pollution, precarious bodies: Hollywood 
eco-cinema and social impact entertainment
Carlotta Antonelli: Citizenship of disability in the mediapolis: 
evolution of media representations. A precarious space? Main evidences
Erica Sheen: Aniara and dystopian literature and film
Enes Akdağ: You Wouldn’t Be Here If I Didn’t Pay You: Intersectional 
Look to Employee/Employer Child Actor in Honeyboy (2019)

CONCLUDING REMARKS


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