Wednesdays, 5-7pm, Bush House SE 2.10 (unless otherwise indicated)
Semester 1
16 October 2024
Victoria Pistivsek (King’s College London): “Politics, Power, and Piss: Abject Masculinity in
Succession” https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/victoria-pistivsek Chair: Jeff Scheible
*Followed by drinks reception in the room*
23 October
Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield): “Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno- history”
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas/people/academic-staff/jennifer-coates Chair: Jinhee Choi
6 November
David Wood (UCL/National Autonomous University of Mexico): “For a free-flowing documentary: UNESCO, internationalist montage and the Third-World episode film in the 1950s-60s” https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/98296-david-mj-wood
Chair: Mark Betz
20 November
Catherine Grant (Independent Scholar): “Finding Pictures for Found Voices? Videographic Criticism and its Intersections with Film Studies Oral History Research”
https://catherinegrant.org/about-catherine-grant/ Chair: Tom Brown
4 December
Kathleen Loock (Leibniz University Hannover): “Remaking the Past: Hollywood, Memory, and Movie Generations”
https://www.engsem.uni-hannover.de/en/seminar/personenverzeichnis/kathleen-loock Chair: Iain Smith
*Thursday, 5 December*
BFI Key Scholars in Film Studies, BFI Southbank (time TBC)
Steve Choe (San Francisco State University): “Laugh Together, Weep Alone: Korean Cinema’s Ethical Ambiguities”
https://cinema.sfsu.edu/people/steve-choe
Semester 2
22 January 2025
James Cahill (University of Toronto): “Neither Dog nor Master” https://www.cinema.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/james-leo-cahill Chair: Sarah Cooper
5 February
Susana Viegas (University of Lisbon): Title TBC
https://ifilnova.pt/en/people/susana-viegas/#:~:texttiSusana%20Viegas%20is%20Assistant%20Professor,D
Chair: Catherine Wheatley
12 February
Roy Grundmann (Boston University): “Floating Signifiers: Ocean Liners as Filmic Objects” https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/roy-grundmann/
Chair: Rosalind Galt
26 February
Grazia Ingravalle (Queen Mary University of London): Title TBC https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/film-studies/people/academic/profiles/ingravalle.html Chair: Erica Carter
*Saturday March 8th*
BFI Key Scholars in Film Studies, BFI Southbank (time TBC)
Ivone Margulies, Hunter College, City University of New York, Keynote Lecture on Chantal Akerman (title TBC)
Part of BFI’s Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception Season and Study Day
19 March
Book event (King’s College London) Participants and titles TBC
*Followed by drinks reception in the room*