Call for participation – PICTURING THE MARGINS

PICTURING THE MARGINS :
PERIPHERIES, MINORITIES AND TABOOS IN THE FILMS OF MARCEL ŁOZIŃSKI, PÁL SCHIFFER AND ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

4-5 FEB. 2021, PARIS

SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ (EUR’ORBEM)

Keynote speaker : Prof. Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews, U.K.)

Hence, submissions are welcomed across a range of topics including, but not limited to:

• Cinema and the margins: imaginaries, strategies, ethics.
• Documentary cinema and marginalized populations in the Central European and Balkan context before and after 1989.
• Cinema as an artistic method of understanding an ‘unrepresented reality’ (Kornhauser & Zagajewski, 1974).
• Film comprehension of the margins as a factor of gaze shift: aesthetic challenges.
• Filmmakers confronted with Power: norms, negotiation, censorship.
• Margins and national context: reflecting on shifting relationships with the State and the filmmakers between 1968 and 1998.
• Cinema as a political gesture: rethinking the link between praxis and aesthetics.
• De-stigmatisation by cinema: defining film representation as a way of surpassing and overthrowing ‘stigma’ (Goffman, 1963).

SUBMISSION RULES AND CALENDAR

All proposals (500 words maximum), written in French or English, along with a bibliography and a short biography, must be sent before 6 July 2020. The answers to these propositions will be returned by the organizers on 20 July 2020. Please submit your proposals to the following address: margins.parisconference@gmail.com.

CONFERENCE TEAM

Naïma Berkane (PhD candidate, Sorbonne Université, EUR’ORBEM)
Mathieu Lericq (Post-doc, Aix-Marseille Université, LESA)
Clara Royer (Senior lecturer, Sorbonne Université, EUR’ORBEM)