13th - 15th April 2011 / University of Sunderland

Doing Women's Film History Conference 13-15 April 2011

Despite their marginalization in film history, women continue to be widely involved in cinema as producers, directors, scriptwriters, cinematographers, editors, designers, actresses, distributors, programmers, cinema managers, publicists, critics, audiences. This international conference brings together researchers, archivists, filmmakers and those involved in distributing and programming films to explore new research in women's film history.

Speakers and Panellists include:

Monica Dall'Asta (Bologna University; Non solo dive. Pioniere del cinema italiano);
Jane Gaines (Columbia University, Women Film Pioneers Project);
Christine Geraghty (Glasgow University; Women and Soap Opera);
Karola Gramann (Kinothek Asta Neilsen, Frankfurt);
Margo Harkin (Besom Productions; Northern Ireland Film Commission);
Sue Harper (Portsmouth University; Women in British Cinema); Clare Holden (Sally Potter Archive);
Debbie Horsfield (theatre/TV writer/producer); Kate Kinninmont (Women in Film & TV - UK);
Neepa Majumdar (Pittsburgh University, Wanted, Cultured Ladies Only: Female Stardom in India 1930s-1950s);
Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck, London University; feminist filmmaker & writer);
Tessa Ross (Controller, Film4);
Heide Schlfipmann (Goethe Universitilt, Frankfurt; The Uncanny Gaze);
Felicity Sparrow (Central St Martins; Circles); Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies, New York)

Full programme details and information on how to register available at http://dwfh.wordpress.com/ or email wfh.conference@sunderland.ac.uk

8th - 9th September 2011 / University of Hull

Time and Space in Contemporary Women’s Writing / University of Hull (UK)
The Third Biennial Conference of the Postgraduate Contemporary Women’sWriting Network (PG CWWN)

Contemporary women’s writing continues to be preoccupied with and influenced by conceptualisations of time and space, both as separate and as inherently interconnected concepts. At the turn of themillennium, it is inevitable that feminist theory, politics and practice are increasingly interested in the relationships between past, present and future, and at the same time they have also become more global and diversified in their focus. This event seeks to explore the ways in which contemporary women writers – through fiction and non-fiction, short story and poetry, drama and critical theory – engage with and conceptualise notions of time and space in their work.

Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
• Global, national, regional, urban and domestic geographies
• Narrative space and time • Historical fiction and revisions of the past (personal, historical, national, etc.)
• Dystopian and utopian visions of time and space, including science and cyber fiction
• Transnationalism and diasporas
• Spaces of mind and body
• Travel writing
• Theorisations of the relationship between time and space.

Please send 300 word abstracts for 20 minute papers via email to time-and-space@pgcwwn.org by 1st April 2011. If you have any further questions about the network or this event, please get in touch at the above email address.

See the poster