Global Gaze 2012
GLOBAL GAZE: Looking Outside The Frame
2nd Annual Carleton University Film Studies Graduate Student Symposium
March 2nd – 3rd, 2012
Does world cinema allow for more creativity and expressiveness in filmmaking? Alternatively, does it merely function as a categorization for everything that Hollywood is not? Hollywood is often accused of using a formulaic view of genre and conventions. Is world cinema, then, a useful concept for examining the technology and aesthetics and ideology of filmmaking? Furthermore, how might it allow us to interrogate filmic representations of spaces and borders in light of cultural and geo-political differences and/or continuities?
The intent of the 2012 Global Gaze Graduate Student Symposium is to allow graduate students to share their film-related research interests with their peers. In doing so, the symposium provides an open and interactive forum for discussion of current conceptual problems and pedagogical issues in world cinema. We also welcome graduate student from departments such as English, Art History, Music, Canadian Studies and Cultural mediations to submit an abstract and/or attend the symposium.
For further information send an email to globalgaze@gmail.com
Symposium Organizers: Renuka Bauri & Patrick Mullen
The following programme reflects the approximate start/end times of the events for the symposium.
Any changes will be posted here.
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Friday, March 2nd
Location: Prescott Conference Room
Keynote Speaker
2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Cameron Bailey, Co-executive Director of the Toronto International Film Festival
Roundtable
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Cameron Bailey – TIFF
Tom McSorley – Executive Director of the Canadian Film Institute
Chris Robinson – Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival
Reception to follow
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Saturday, March 3rd
Location: St. Patrick’s Building (SP)
Registration
10:00 – 10:30 a.m., SP Foyer 1st floor
Introduction
10:30 – 10:45 a.m., SP 100
Panel 1
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., SP 100
Chair: Prof. Jose Sanchez, Film Studies
Dan Weir – M.A. Film Studies (Concordia University)
The Garrison City: Escaping a Cinematic Vancoucer
Rachel Jekanowski, M.A. Film Studies (Concordia University)
The Fixity of Blackness: Conceptualizing the Impact of Colonialism on Depictions of Race in National Cuban Cinema
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, M.A. Film Studies (Concordia University)
Guns, Big Hats & Slutty Women: Gendered Reworkings in Mexican Narco Films
Light Lunch
12:00 – 12:45 p.m., SP Foyer 4th floor
Panel 2
12:45 – 2:00 p.m., SP 100
Chair: Prof. Charles O’Brien, Film Studies
Justin Kwinter, M.A. Canadian Studies (Carleton University)
Fubar II: A Safe Investment for the Alberta Government
Julie Ravary, M.A. Film Studies (Concordia University)
Nuevo Cine Argentino
David Richler, Ph.D ICSLAC (Carleton University)
Staging the National, Constructing the Auteur: International Film Festivals and Transnational Circulation
Break
2:00 — 2:15 p.m.
Panel 3
2:15 – 3:30 p.m., SP 100
Chair: Prof. Erika Balsom, Film Studies
Nick Shaw – M.A. Film Studies (Carleton University)
Desperation, Disease and Death: the ‘Immigration Noir,’ 1940-53
Georgia Cowan – M.A. Film Studies (Concordia University)
Science Fiction Cinema and Political Change in the Late Soviet Union
Kevin Chabot – M.A. Film Studies (Carleton University)
A Spectre in Time: The Ghost Film’s Disavowal of the Homogenized Temporality of Modernity
Closing Remarks
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Dinner Reception
5:30 p.m., Heart & Crown, 353 Preston St. (accessible from Carleton via O-Train, Carling exit)
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the School for Studies in Arts & Culture, the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Affairs and the Carleton University Graduate Students Association Social Departmental Support and the Graduate Student Association Intellectual Departmental Support.