An event organized by the new Center for Film, Performance, and Media Arts (CFPMA) was held today in Edinburgh University discussing recent topics in… film, performance, and media arts.
It was an interesting group of people that strangely somehow all had much in common. I had the fortune of presenting my research as it relates to DIEM in the place of Tim J. Smith.
The schedule:
Close-Up 2: Schedule for Wednesday 17th June 2009
10am coffee and tech checks (G.11, William Robertson Building)
10.30 Welcome, Annette Davison (Music, ACE and Director, Cfpma), Martine Beugnet (LLC, Convener of Film Studies)
Who is who, where is what? People and resources for which the Cfpma will provide a point of convergence.
11am Individual Presentations (MAX 10 mins each):
Andrew Lawrence (African Studies, SSPS) — Difficult satire under austerity: the films of Sissako and Amoussou
Martine Beugnet (Film, LLC) — “The Wounded Screen”
Richard Williams (Architecture, ACE) — “The Modernist City on Film”
Stephen Cairns (Architecture, ACE) — “Cultures of Legibility: Emergent Urban Landscapes in Southeast Asia”
Simon Frith and Annette Davison (Music, ACE) — “The Role of Cinemas in the History of Live Music”
Mary Fogarty (Music, ACE) — “The … Continue reading...