Scottish Word and Image Group

 

Homepage | Forthcoming Events | Previous Events | Publications

 

Scottish Word and Image Group Conference 2016

Afterlives

Remediations in Word and Image

Twenty-Second Scottish Word and Image Group Conference, University of Dundee
6-7 May 2016

Dalhousie Building, Lecture Theatre 3

14.00 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
14.30 Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee)
Apparitions of the Digital
14.50 Elizabeth Ezra (University of Stirling)
Technics and Remediation in Wall-E (2008) and Prometheus (2012)
15.10 Oisin Keohane (University of Dundee)
The Remediations of Aphrodite: From Plato to Jean-Luc Godard
16.00 WINE RECEPTION - DALHOUSIE FOYER
17.00 FILM SCREENING: UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY (DIR. RAKSHAN BENI-ETEMAD, 2000), WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR LAURA MULVEY
19.30 DINNER AT THE D'ARCY THOMPSON

Saturday 7th May Dalhousie Building, Lecture Theatre 1

9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR LAURA MULVEY: Words and Images in Un ora sola ti vorrei (Alina Marazzi, 2002)
10:30 TEA AND COFFEE
11:00 Shorna Pal (University of St Andrews)
Creating P.O.V through Transmedia Storytelling: Remediating the Auteur in Indian Films
11:20 Ellie Lewerenz (University of Edinburgh)
'What makes you think this is my first time?' Bond's Potential Queerness as a Structuring Absence in Skyfall
11: 40 Ilse van der Spoel (University of Amsterdam)
The Wondrous Worlds of Wes Anderson: Proposing a Notion of Graphic Cinema
12:00 Dorota Miezek (Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw)
Remediation Strategies in W.G. Sebald's 'Austerlitz'
12:30 TEA AND COFFEE/LUNCH
1:30 Faye Harland (University of Dundee)
'A Certain Spontaneous Magic': Mansfield, Modernity and the Moving Panorama
1:50 Elizabeth Geary Keohane (Trinity College, Dublin)
Writing the Visual: Nicholas Bouvier and the Afterlives of the Aran Islands
2:10 Andrew Godfrey (University of Dundee)
Betwixt and Between: Performance-like Elements in Graphic Medicine
2.30 Eleanore Widger (University of Dundee)
'Mortal Birth', 'What have I to do with thee?': the sublimation of body and spirit, image and text in William Blake's 'To Tirzah'
3:00 CLOSING REMARKS

Full details of the conference fees and online booking can be found here.

 

Last updated