Film and Screen Studies Research Seminar Series

Michaelmas Term 2019

17 October (Thursday), 5.15pm, Chadwick Room, Selwyn College

 Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame)

‘A permanent stain? Race and Sex, Gender and Genre in Luigi Zampa's Campane a Martello’

This event co-sponsored with Italian

30 October (Wednesday), 4.15pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College

‘Animal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time’

Laura McMahon (Cambridge), Anat Pick (QMUL), and Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex) in conversation

This event celebrates the recent publication of Laura McMahon’s new book Animal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)

13 November (Wednesday), 4.15pm, Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College

Tiago de Luca  (University of Warwick)

‘“The Universal Equality of Things”: On Cinema's All-Embracing Vision'

Lent Term 2020

22 Jan, 2-5pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College

Film and Screen Studies PhD Student Showcase

12 Feb, 4.15pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College

Isabelle McNeill, University of Cambridge

‘Girls, Money and Pop Culture in Andrea Arnold’s American Honey (2016) and Houda Benyamina’s Divines (2016)’

4 March, 4.15pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College - TALK CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge

'A Media Ecology of Particulate Matter'

6 March, 5pm, Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College

Nicholas Baer, Groningen

'Things as They Could Have Happened: Siegfried Kracauer and the Historical Film'

11 March, 4.15pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College - TALK CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Emily Warner, Institute of Advanced Studies/UCL

‘Screens and Walls: The Mural as Cinema in Stuart Davis's History of Communication (1939)’