Migrant and Diasporic Cinema - News
Professor Carrie Tarr convenes panel at NECS Conference in Lund
The conference panel is entitled 'Reflections on Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe' and consists of four papers:
Daniela Berghahn, 'From Turkish Greengrocer to Drag Queen: Reassessing Patriarchy in Recent Turkish-German Coming-of-Age Films'; Isabel Santaolalla, 'Immigrants in Recent Spanish, Italian and Greek Cinemas: A Comparative View'; Claudia Sternberg, 'Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe: Possibilities and Challenges in Transnational Film Studies'; and Carrie Tarr, 'Gendering Diaspora: The Work of Diasporic Women Filmmakers in West European Cinema'.
The annual NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) conference will be held in Lund (Sweden) between 25 - 28 June 2009.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 23 Jun 2009 •
Special issue of Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, guest-edited by Dr Sarita Malik
The latest issue of the Journal of South Asian Popular Culture is a special collection (‘The Cinema Issue’) guest-edited by Network participant, Dr Sarita Malik. ‘The Cinema Issue’ stems from the ‘Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe’ network and from the first Network conference held in Oxford in 2006 where a number of speakers and other delegates shared a research interest in South Asian cinema. The idea for the special Issue was to build on the foundation established by the network focus on the films of migrant and diasporic filmmakers and to take a close-up view of South Asian cinema, past and present.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 11 May 2009 •
HARC Lecture ‘Citizens of Two Worlds’
Daniela Berghahn was invited to give a lecture entitled 'Citizens of Two Worlds: Hybrid Identity Formation in Diasporic Coming-of-Age Films' in the HARC Lecture Series 'Cinema and Citizenship', convened by Professor Mandy Merck, who is currently HARC Fellow at the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Click here for a podcast of the lecture she gave on 17 March 2009.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 22 Mar 2009 •
Forthcoming Book and Journal Issues
Our Research Network has over the past two years received numerous requests from scholars working in the field of transnational cinema to make papers which we presented at conferences or in other contexts available to them. We are, therefore, delighted to announce that we are currently preparing a book entitled European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe, eds. Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg, which will be published by Palgrave in August 2010.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 24 Jul 2008 •
Migration in Spanish Film: The Making of Aguaviva
Professor Isabel Santaolalla, a member of our Research Network, will be part of a round table discussion with Catalan filmmaker Ariadna Pujol. This event is scheduled for 30 May 2008 at 6pm and is part of the UCL Film Studies Graduate Programme. The discussion will be preceded by a film screening of Aguaviva at 4pm. Venue: Pearson Building Lecture Theatre, UCL , Gower Street, London WC1E
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 13 Apr 2008 •
Panel on Turkish German cinema at the SCMS Conference in Philadelphia
Panel at the SCMS Conference in Philadelphia, March 2008.
Daniela Berghahn, leader of the Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Network, convened a panel entitled 'Turkish German Dialogues on Screen' at this year's SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference) in Philadelphia. The panel brought together several speakers who had already contributed to the first Conference organised by the Network in Oxford in 2006 and who all share a particular interest in New Turkish German Cinema and in current trends in Turkish film culture.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 13 Mar 2008 •
Network participant Carrie Tarr curated ‘Beur is beautiful’ film season in New York
In November 2007, Carrie Tarr, an internationally leading scholar on Maghrebi-French filmmaking, curated a retrospective entitled 'BEUR IS BEAUTIFUL: MAGHREBI-FRENCH FILMMAKING' in New York. The film programme, which will go on tour, showcases landmark films such as Tea in the Harem, Cheb, Memories of Immigration as well as more recent releases such as Where the Fig Trees Grow or Voisins, Voisins.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 13 Mar 2008 •
AHRC showcases Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Project
In the latest issue (Autumn 2007, no. 7) of Podium the AHRC devotes a two-page case study to our Research Network, reporting about the conference on 'The Industrial Context' organised by our Research Network in January 2007. If you download a pdf file of Podium, issue 7, you will find the report on pp. 10-11.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 14 Jan 2008 •