University of Leeds - Centre for World Cinema

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Events

Since its foundation in 2004, the centre has hosted a wide range of events.

Impure Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to Cinema
Fernando Meirelles at Leeds
CWC-WUN Seminar Series 2009-10
Previous Events

Impure Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema
International Conference

2-5 December 2010

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Dudley Andrew, Yale University
Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
Professor Jacques Rancière, Emeritus Professor University of Paris 8 (tbc)
Professor James Schamus, Focus Features/Columbia University (tbc)
Professor Robert Stam, New York University
Dr Jonathan Wood, Henry Moore Institute

This will be the first overarching conference organised by the Mixed Cinema Network, an international body devoted to the study of cinema as a fundamentally interdisciplinary and intercultural subject area. The conference will be convenened by Professor Lúcia Nagib, Director of Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds

Please click on the link to download the call for papers.

Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to Cinema
White Rose Mixed Cinema Network Workshop

10-11 May 2010

The event is the first in a series of three workshops to be hosted by the White Rose Mixed Cinema Network.

Please click on the links to download a programme and abstracts.

Fernando Meirelles at Leeds

The world-famous Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, the director of films such as City of God, The Constant Gardener, Blindness and director and producer of immensely popular TV series, such as City of Men and Sound and Fury, among many other works, will be honouring Leeds with his visit on 18 March 2010. The Leeds event will precede Meirelles’s visit to the National Media Museum in Bradford, to open the world’s first full retrospective of his work.

Programme, 18 March 2010

15:00-17:00
Workshop with Fernando Meirelles for students of Portuguese (conducted in Portuguese)
By invitation only! Please contact Dr Stephanie Dennison, S.Dennison@leeds.ac.uk

18:00
Q&A with Fernando Meirelles chaired by Prof Lúcia Nagib (conducted in English)
Limited seats! Tickets and reservations with Ricardo Frayha, meirelles.at.leeds@gmail.com

Please click on the link to download the programme of events. The events are supported by National Media Museum, Bradford and Centre for Brazilian Film Studies, SPLAS, University of Leeds.

Centre for World Cinemas-Worldwide Universities Network Seminar Series 2009-10

Worldwide Universities Network
Part 1: Theoretical Issues in World Cinemas

Speaker	Title	Date
Dr Cecília Sayad, University of Kent	Border crossing, corporality and performance: a study of authorial self-inscription in the cinema	21 October 2009
Dr Jerry White, University of Alberta	Indigenous cinema: the Inuit case	18 November 2009
Prof Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck, University of London	Back to modernity: Paradoxes of Hollywood Realism	2 December 2009

Part 2: Intercultural Dialogue with Japan

Speaker	Title	Date
Jasper Sharp, University of Sheffield	The Japanese Nouvelle Vague	3 February 2010
Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, University of Leeds	Intercultural Dialogue with Japan: New Taiwan Cinema	17 March 2010
Prof Stephanie Donald, RMIT Melbourne	Children in Contemporary Chinese Film: Re-engaging with the Sino-Japanese War	5 May 2010

All seminars take place from 16.00 - 18.00 in Roger Stevens Building, LT16 at the University of Leeds.

Please click on the links to download a full programme and poster.

Previous events

Title	Event type	Date	Info
German Cinema Since 2000	Postgraduate Research Workshop	30 November 2009	Programme
Talking 'Dirty': Sex and the Cinema	Conference	13-14 November 2009	Programme Abstracts
Documentary Festival: Taiwan Study Day	Study Day	14 November 2009	Programme
Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Tour of Taiwanese Short Films	Film screenings	March - October 2009	A collaboration between the University of Leeds, the Glimmer (Hull Short Film Festival), Shih-Hsin University and the National Taiwan University of Arts. Supported by Taipei Representative Office in the UK.
National, Transnational, Cosmopolitan: The Locations of World Cinemas	WUN seminar series 2008-9	Various	Convenors: Prof Lúcia Nagib (Leeds) and Prof Chris Perriam and Dr Rajinder Dudrah (Manchester)
Transnationalism and Terror: Rethinking Transnational Cinemas in the Face of the Other	WUN seminar	22 April 2009	Prof Scott MacKenzie, University of Toronto
Adjusting to Hollywood Style: International Trends in the 1910s and 1920s	WUN seminar	28 January 2009	Prof David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Italian Neorealism between Hollywood and Nation	WUN seminar	19 November 2008	Dr Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol
Javier Bardem: Costume, Crime, and Commitment	WUN seminar	29 October 2008	Prof Chris Perriam, University of Manchester
New Approaches to Film Studies	WUN seminar series 2007-8	Various	Convenors: Prof Lúcia Nagib (Leeds) and Prof Chris Perriam and Dr Rajinder Dudrah (Manchester)
Double Takes: Violence, Representation and the Border Gaze	WUN seminar	23 April 2008	Prof Paulo de Medeiros, University of Utrecht
Cinema, Identity and Resistance in Taiwan	WUN seminar	06 February 2008	Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China
On Brecht, Realism and the Media	WUN seminar	30 January 2008	Prof Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Avant-gardes: New Approaches	WUN seminar	03 October 2007	Prof Ismail Xavier, University of São Paulo
Realism and the Audiovisual Media	Conference	3-5 December 2007	Programme Poster Biographies
Theorising World Cinema II, in collaboration with the University of Manchester	Conference	5-6 November 2007	Programme, abstracts and speakers
Film, Screen and the Real	WUN seminar series 2006-7	Various	Convenors: Prof Lúcia Nagib (Leeds) and Prof Chris Perriam and Dr Rajinder Dudrah (Manchester)
“What was new about neo-realism?”	WUN seminar	22 November 2006	Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Queen Mary, University of London
Morvern Callar and the difficulty of art cinema	WUN seminar	14 February 2007	Professor John Caughie, University of Glasgow
On Sokurov	WUN seminar	28 February 2007	Professor Ian Christie, Birkbeck, University of London
The euthanasia debate in The Sea Inside and Tele5's Periodistas	WUN seminar	14 March 2007	Professor Paul Julian Smith, University of Cambridge
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor		2007-2008	Professor Ismail Xavier
New Waves and New Cinemas	Postgraduate symposium	08 July 2006	In collaboration with the AHRC Research Training Network in Modern Foreign Languages and the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds Programme
Theorising World Cinema	Workshop	22 June 2006	Programme Notes on contributors and abstracts
Local Modernities Rethinking Film Geography	Seminar series	Various
British 'national' cinema and Hollywood	Seminar	13 October 2005	Graham Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Communications Arts, University of Leeds
Issues in post-colonial cinemas	Seminar	20 October 2005	Graham Huggan, Professor of Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Literatures, University of Leeds
Film and Terrorism in Germany	Seminar	27 October 2005	Chris Homewood, PhD Student, Dept of German, University of Leeds
Video Art: Negotiating the Tension between Practice and Theory	Seminar	24 November 2005	Vanalyne Green, Professor of Fine Art, University of Leeds
Marco Tullio Giordana and the survival of cinema engagé	Seminar	02 February 2006	Alan O'Leary, Lecturer in Italian, University of Leeds
Bhutan Cinema, Buddhist Narratives and Modernity	Seminar	09 February 2006	Sue Clayton, Lecturer in Screenwriting, Royal Holloway
On Korean Cinema	Seminar	16 February 2006	Griselda Pollock, Professor of History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
Aspiring to Consciousness: Sensation, Cognition and Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia)	Seminar	23 February 2006	Rachel Moore, Lecturer in International Media, Goldsmiths University
Propagations of the French New Wave: film and gender	Seminar	02 March 2006	Diana Holmes, Professor of French, University of Leeds
The Trouble with Modernity: National Identity, Self-Denigration and Regional Abhorrence in the Cinema of the Balkans	Seminar	09 March 2006	Dina Iordanova, Professor and Chair in Film Studies, University of St Andrews
On Third Cinema	Seminar	16 March 2006	Stephanie Dennison, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, University of Leeds
The New Japanese Horror Cinema	Seminar	23 March 2006	Mika Ko, Japanese Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds
Taiwan Cinematic Modernism	Seminar	04 May 2006	Louise Williams, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds
Bus 174	Screening & discussion with director, Felipe Lacerda	11 February 2005	The documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
The Centre for World Cinemas Official Launch		12 May 2005	Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre, LUBS
Cinema's Late Style: Some Thoughts on the Films of Abbas Kiarostami	Lecture	12 May 2005	Professor Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck, University of London As well as the author of the most influential book on feminist film theory ever written, Visual and Other Pleasures, Laura Mulvey is known for her original approach to world cinema. The lecture was followed by a reception.
European Cinema Research Forum 2005	Conference	July 2005	The Centre, in conjunction with the ECRF and the Screening Identities BA Networks, hosted an international film conference which examined the changing place of European film within the context of World Cinema.

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