CRASSH

16 September

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at  CRASSH

1615-1645

Registration
(of conference delegates attending events on 17-18 September)

1645-1845

Film Screening
Introduced by Elizabeth Cowie (Kent) and Sarah Turner (dir.)
Ecology (UK 2007, 97 min)

1845-1915

Drinks reception at CRASSH

17 September

Emmanuel College & Cambridge Arts Picturehouse

0900-0930

Registration (Emmanuel College, Queen's Building, Harrods Room)

0930-0945

Welcome and Introduction (Auditorium)

0945-1115

Session 1 – KEYNOTE LECTURE
Kaja Silverman (Berkeley)
Orpheus Rex

Chair: Steve Joy (Cambridge)

1115-1145

Coffee (Harrods Room)

1145-1300

Session 2 - The Cut

Francis Summers (Royal College of Art)
Cut and Stitch: Found Footage Film as Applied Analysis

Andrew Webber (Cambridge)
Cut and Laced: Traumatism and fetishism in Un Chien andalou

Chair: Isabelle McNeill (Cambridge)

1300-1415

Lunch (The Old Library)

1415 - 1545

Session 3  - Vocal Transactions

Andrew Conio (Wolverhampton)
Windowless Monad

John Davidson (Ohio State University)
The Fathers of Invention: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the Cinema of Ottomar Domnick

Maija Timonen (Slade School of Fine Art)
The Guilty Silence of an Errant Debtor: What men talk amongst themselves means nothing

Chair: tba

1545 - 1615

Transfer to Arts Picturehouse

1615-1900 

Session 4 - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Film Screenings
Location: Arts Picturehouse

Emily Cooper
Laid Down (15min)

FEATURE FILM SCREENING
Philippe Grandrieux
La Vie Nouvelle (2002) plus Q&A with the director

1900-1945 

Drinks Reception (Emmanuel College, Master's Lodge)

2000 - 2200 

Conference Dinner (Emmanuel College, Gardner Room)

18 September

Emmanuel College & Cambridge Arts Picturehouse

0930 - 10.45

Session 5 - Intercultural Translations

Henry K. Miller (Birkbeck College, London)
Prudential Speech and the Laws of Pathetics: Close Up on Cambridge

Rod Stoneman (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway)
Much Harm

Chair: tba

1045 - 1115

Transfer to Arts Picturehouse

1115-1315

Session 6 -  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC KEYNOTE SESSION – Film Screening
Location: Arts Picturehouse

Mieke Bal (Amsterdam)
Film: Becoming Vera, followed by a talk

1315 - 1415 

Lunch (The Old Library)

1415 - 1545 

Session 7 - Visual Transfigurations

Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla  (Newcastle)
Filming Psychoanalysis or Psychoanalysing Film? The ‘Paranoid Gaze’ in Luis Buñuel’s ‘Él/This Strange Passion’

Mauro Pasqualini (Emory)
An Existentialist Screening of Psychoanalysis: Satre’s Script on Freud

Joanna Evans (University College, London)
‘You lookin’ at me?’: Lacan’s Ambassadors

1545- 1615

Coffee (Harrods Room)

1615 - 1745 

Session 8 - Transformations Beyond

Richard Rushton (Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster)
Psychoanalysis and the subject of cinema: Post-Lacanian approaches

Tania Espinoza (Cambridge)
Cinema and psychoanalysis: casting the mould of absence or the fantasy of negative space

Jonathan Whitehall (Royal College of Art)
Destroy: Where fantasy stages its mise-en-scène of desire

1745 - 1800 

Closing Remarks