[spectre] Re-presenting diasporas conference

[Gabriella Giannachi]

'RE-PRESENTING DIASPORAS IN CINEMA AND NEW (DIGITAL) MEDIA' CONFERENCE
24-25TH JULY, 2007.

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Exeter Phoenix Arts and Media Centre) UK.

Please find attached an e-flyer and conference programme (below) for the
forthcoming 'Re-presenting diasporas in cinema and new (digital) media
conference' taking place in Exeter (UK) 24th-25th July, 2007.

Confirmed participants include:

John Akomfrah, Inge Blackman, Rajinder Dudrah, Coco Fusco, Eddie George
and Anna Piva, Julian Henriques and Roshini Kempadoo

For bookings, details of conference programme and participants as well as
further information regarding travel and accommodation, please visit the
conference web page:

http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/content/view/710/3/

Dr Will Higbee and Dr Saer Ba
(conference organisers)

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'RE-PRESENTING DIASPORAS'
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Venue: Exeter Phoenix Arts and media Centre, Exeter (UK)

DAY ONE: 24th July

9:15-9:45am REGISTRATION

10-11:30am: Auditorium

WELCOME and KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Prof Hamid Naficy: (Northwestern University, USA).
ŒThe Multiplicity Factor in Today's Cinemas: Diasporic
Cinema, Art Cinema, and Mainstream Cinema"?¹

Coffee Break 11:30- 12:00

12-1pm: Auditorium

PLENARY SESSION:

Eddie George & Anna Piva  (Flow Motion/Hallucinator)
ŒAstro-Black Morphologies¹

(Introduced by Prof. Regenia Gagnier (Migrations Research Network,
University of Exeter))

2:00­ 3:30pm: Black Box and Top Studio

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

PANEL A:
Diasporas as real and imagined experience

-Steffani Jemison (Temple University), Œ³Šso close to me that I cannot
reach them²: Nostalgia, Ethnography, and Home in Experimental
African-American Media¹

-Jigna Desai (University of Minnesota), ŒYou Can Go Home Again: Diaspora,
State and Bollywood Cinema¹

-Alpesh K. Patel (University of Manchester), ŒDesi: as Urban/Digital Space¹

-Inge Blackman ŒLegacy: Memory, Diaspora and Shame¹

PANEL B
Diasporic identities: gender, Œrace¹, and the (trans-)national

-Emilie Wacogne, (University of Lyon II), ŒDiasporic cinema: dual
identities
and nomadism¹

-Jonanthan Ervine (University of Leeds), ŒDiaspora and Problematic Hybrid
Identities in Contemporary French Cinema¹

-Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), ŒScreening Strangers in
Fortress Europe¹

-Meeta Rani Jha (University of London), Œ³Female Sexual Autonomy and
AssertivenessŠ²: British Asian Diasporic Aesthetic in Bombay Cinematic
Practices¹

4:00pm- 6:00pm: Auditorium
PLENARY: Re-presenting ŒBlack British¹ Diasporas

* Award-winning independent Black-British filmmaker John Akomfrah will
present and discuss his work.

* Dr Rajindher Dudrah (Manchester University) will present: 'Black-,
Asian- and Digital-Times in Diasporic Britain'

* Presentations will then be followed by around table discussion


8:00-10:00pm: Auditorium

V-J Performance by HALLUCINATOR: a multimedia sound-art performance by
electronic musicians Anna Piva and Eddie George

(sponsored by Migrations Research Network)

DAY TWO: 25th July

9:30am ­11am: Auditorium

KEYNOTE 2:

Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London)
ŒInterpolating the screen bytes: critical commentary in digital media¹

11:30- 1:00pm: Black Box and Top Studio

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

PANEL A

Visualizing Diaspora: (virtual) displacement and the construction of space

-Claudio Canaparo (University of Exeter), ŒThe Diasporic Space in the
cinema of Pablo Trapero¹

-Panivong Norindr (USC), ŒOn Photographic and Historical Traces in Dinh Q.
Le¹s Work¹

-Gen Doy (De Montfort University), ŒSomewhereŠ: issues in lens-based
visual representation of displacement and migration¹

-Monia Acciari (University of Manchester), ŒBethought-free and experience
the Nirvana: a cyberpunk vision of Indi@¹


PANEL B

Diaspora: Digital media, memory and the material world

-Hijoo Son (UCLA), ŒDigital Data-Mining of Diasporic Art:  Re-presentation
and Retrieval of a Dynamic Archive¹

-Brian DeLevie (Denver), ŒDigital Palimpsets¹

-Alicia Felberbaum (London), Œsomewhere between here and there :
narrativas
contadas -  narrativas vividas¹

-Tamara Vukov (Concordia University) and AyesahHameed (York
University,Toronto), ŒAnimating Exclusions, Haunted Histories:  Ali
Kazimi¹s Continuous Journey and the Virtualities of Racialized Exclusion
in Canadian Immigration Policy¹

2:00-4:00pm: Auditorium



Coco Fusco: ŒA room of one's own: women and power in the new America /
Operation Atropos¹

Internationally acclaimed New York based visual artist and writer, Coco
Fusco, will discuss new work and give exclusive UK screenings of extracts
from her latest documentary exploring the role of female interrogators in
³The War on Terror².

Session is sponsored by the Information Society Network (Exeter) and will
introduced by Prof. Nick Kay (University of Exeter)

4:30pm-6:00pm: Black Box and Top Studio

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

PANEL A

Revisiting Œdifference¹ in Diaspora: the politics of representation

-Augusto Cesar de Oliveira (University of Exeter), ŒDocumenting Black
Bahia, Brazil: from the Œmargins¹ to the Œmargins¹¹

-Anaele Diala Iroh (Dublin Institute of Technology), ŒThe Aesthetics of
Defacement: Representing Secrecy in Nigerian Transnational Family Life in
Ireland¹

-Abdul Hakim Onitolo (University of the West of England), ŒCurry and
Chips: Black British Practice Reconsidered¹

-Kate Taylor (University of Wales, Bangor), ŒKorean-minority diasporic
cinema in Japan: issues of Japanese-Korean cinematic embodiment¹

PANEL B
ŒBeyond¹ Diaspora in theory and practice

-Ayesha Hameed (York University, Toronto), ŒVirtual Diasporas and the
Epistemics of Displacement¹

-Ashwani Sharma (University of East London), ŒWhite rhizomes and the
racial sublime: rethinking diaspora and subjectivity¹

-Julien Henriques (University of East London), "Sonic Diaspora and the
Listening Skin - with examples from reggae music-making and the sound
system
session"


6:00pm-7:00pm: Auditorium

CLOSING PLENARY:

Œconclusions/connections¹