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

Sun Nov 19 13:01:10 GMT 2023




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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