The Moving Image: Reconfiguring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st Century

Confirmed speakers

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Richard Armstrong (University of Cambridge)
La ‘Diva du Deuil’: Towards a Pantheon of Mourning Women

Ariella Azoulay (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Civil Lament and Political Imagination

Martine Beugnet (University of Edinburgh)
Mourning in the Age of the Digital: Memory, loss and materialist filmmaking

Jenny Chamarette (University of Cambridge)
Mourning a Life not yet over: Agnès Varda's spectral bodies and temporalised spaces

Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Film as Shipwreck: Acting-Out and Working-Through in Jean Renoir's 'The Woman on the Beach' (1947)

Alex Dougherty (University of Cambridge)
'God's Funeral': Tragic Space and Cinema

Lisa Downing (University of Exeter)
On the Fantasy of Childlessness as Death in Psychoanalysis and in Roeg's 'Don’t Look Now' (1973) and von Trier's 'Antichrist' (2009)

Kristian Feigelson (Université Paris 3)
Theresienstadt, living among the dead...

Omri Grinberg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Walter Benjamin Fellow, PAIDEIA, The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden)
A Flooding Thirst – Grieving Space in 'Atash' (2004) and Noah's Ark

Song Hwee Lim (University of Exeter)
Slowness, Nostalgia, Cinephilia: Tsai Ming-liang and the Discursive Death of Cinema

Carol Mavor (University of Manchester)
Blue is the Colour of Impossible Mourning: Chantal Akerman's 'La Captive' (2000)

Laura McMahon (University of Cambridge)
The Justice of Images: Derrida and Nancy on Film

Colin Murray Parkes (Author; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham and Consultant Psychiatrist, St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney)
Death Games – What are the Rules?

Libby Saxton (Queen Mary, University of London)
Grief, Horror and Filiation in 'La Question Humaine' (2007)

Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh)
Phantoms of the Present: Mourning and Memory in Chantal Akerman's 'Histoires d'Amerique' (1989)

Maxim Silverman (University of Leeds)
Loss and the concentrationary Image

Emma Wilson (University of Cambridge)
Museum Spaces in Palliative Art: Mariana Otero's 'Histoire d'un secret' (2003)

Jay Winter (Yale University)
Moving images: From silent film to film silences in war films, 1914-2009


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