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: “Both, On the Contrary: Propositions on Akerman’s aesthetic of in-consistency.”
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*