World Cinemas and Transnational Cultures
5th Annual Crossing Borders Convocation: April 16-18, 2004
101 Becker Communication Studies Building
Keynote Speakers
Dudley Andrew, Mette Hjort, Hamid Naficy, George Yúdice
Focus
The Crossing Borders Convocation will have a dual focus in Spring 2004: the current research of the Crossing Borders Fellows, doctoral students from the humanities and social sciences whose work deals with transnational practices, and the work of distinguished scholars who will address questions of world cinemas and aesthetics as well as questions of culture and transnationality.
Professors Dudley Andrew, Mette Hjort, Hamid Naficy and George Yúdice will consider the "geopolitical imaginary" of film study or the question of the representability of the global via the cinema and other cultural practices. Key to the topic of the conference “World Cinemas and Transnational Cultures” is the conceptual decentering of Film Studies away from the U.S. and Europe, that is, a new understanding of the processes of globalization and the role of audiovisual narrative in these processes.
Convocation Organizing Committee
The Institute for Cinema and Culture: Corey Creekmur (ICC Director), Natasa Durovicova, and Kathleen Newman (Committee Chair)
Crossing Borders Fellows: Thomas Keegan, Danielle Marie Snoddy, Ellen Sweeney
Director, Crossing Borders Program: Paul Greenough
Presenter Biographies
Dudley Andrew
Professor of Film Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University, is the Co-Chair of Film Studies. He is author of The Major Film Theories, Concepts of Film Theory, Andre Bazin, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film and editor of The Image in Dispute. His book Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture, co-authored with Steven Ungar of The University of Iowa, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
Mette Hjort
Professor and Departmental Head of Comparative Literature at The University of Hong Kong, currently on leave from her position as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University, is a Visiting Research Associate at the Kwan Fong Center for Cultural Research and Development at Lingnan University. She is author of The Strategy of Letters, and, co-author with Ib Bondebjerg, of The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema. She is editor or co-editor of Rules and Conventions: Literature, Philosophy, and Social Theory, Emotion and the Arts, Cinema and Nation, The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity, and Purity and Provocation: Dogma 95. Professor Hjort has recently completed a book titled Small Nation, Global Cinema.
Hamid Naficy
A Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art & Art History/Film and Media Studies at Rice University, Hamid is Chair of the Department of Art History.He is author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, The Making of Exile Cultures:Iranian Television in Los Angeles, and the Iran Media Index. Professor Naficy is editor of Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place and co-editor of (with Teshome Gabriel) of Otherness and the Media: the Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged.
George Yúdice
Professor of Spanish and American Studies at New York University, is the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Director of the Privatization of Culture Project for Research on Cultural Policy. He is author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era, Literatura y valor: A partir de la postmodernidad, and Vicente Huidobro y la motivación del lenguaje poético, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Most recently, he is co-author with Toby Miller of Política cultural, published in Spain.
Schedule
Friday, April 16
1:00-1:15 p.m. Welcome
Paul Greenough, Director, Crossing Borders Program
William M. Reisinger, Associate Provost and Dean for International Programs
1:15-1:45 p.m. Conference Overview
Kathleen Newman and Nataša Ďurovičová, “Cinema and Transnationality”
1:45-3:45 p.m. Panel: The Arts and Globalization
Tom Keegan, Chair
Kelli Beer(CB Fellow, Anthropology)
“Strategic Regionalities in Afro-Guyanese PopularMusic Culture”
Shanshan Chen (CB Fellow, Art History)
“Hung Liu’s Asian American Art and Cultural Identity”
Danielle Marie Snoddy (CB Fellow, Art and Art History)
“Identity Politics, Multicultural Normalization, and ‘New Ethnicities’: Recent Works by Zineb Sedira”
Alessandra Madella (CB Fellow, Communication Studies)
“Imagining America: Localization and Globalization in Christ Stopped at Eboli”
3:45-4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 p.m. " Islands in the Seas of Cinema"
Dudley Andrew (Yale University)
8:00-10:30p.m Abouna
Director, Mahamet Saleh Haroun; Chad/France, 2002, 35mm, 84 minutes
Discussion to follow.
Saturday, April 17
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Corey Creekmur, “Mainstreams and Margins in World Cinemas”
9:15-10:15 a.m. Panel: History, Anthropology, Globalization
Chair: Ellen Sweeney
Francis Dube (CB Fellow, History)
“The Role of Wildlife in the Epidemiology of Cattle Diseases in Southern Africa with Particular Reference to Mozambique and Zimbabwe”
Kenda Stewart (CB Fellow, Anthropology)
“German and Turkish Nationalitaet through Critically Tinted Sports Goggles”
10:15-10:45 a.m. Europlex
Directors, Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders; Switzerland, 2003, video, 20 minutes
10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. “Accented Cinema’s Interstitiality and Multivocality”
Hamid Naficy (Rice University)
12:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
2:00-3:00 p.m. “From Epiphanic Culture to Circulation: The Dynamics of Globalization in the North”
Mette Hjort (The University of Hong Kong)
3:00-4:00 p.m. "The New International Division of Cultural Labor"
George Yúdice ( New York University)
4:00-4:15 p.m. Coffee Break
4:15-5:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Paula Amad and Rosalind Galt, Chairs
5:00-6:00 p.m. Conference Commentary
Sunday, April 18
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Panel: Cinema and Globalization
Danielle Marie Snoddy, Chair
Thomas Keegan (CB Fellow, English)
“Black/Irish: Encounters with the Other in Zulu 9”
Karleen A. Jones (CB Fellow, Political Science)
“Globalization and Mexican Cinema: The Cases of Amores perros and Y tu mamá también”
Cristiane Orfaliais (CB Fellow, Communication Studies)
“Negotiating the Local and the Global: Representations of favelas in Recent Brazilian Cinema”
Ellen Sweeney (CB Fellow, Cinema and Comparative Literature)
“The Return to Bloody Sunday: Revisioning the National in the Bloody Sunday Films”
11:00-11:15 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15a.m-12:15p.m. Roundtable
Dudley Andrew, Mette Hjort, Hamid Naficy, George Yúdice
