A Worldwide Universities Network Initiative
WUN World Cinemas virtual seminars

Organised by
The Centre for World Cinemas

School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds
Convenor: Professor Lucia Nagib

Times and venue

Local start times: Alberta 9am, Wisconsin-Madison 10am, UK 4pm, Europe 5pm

All seminars take place at Leeds and WUN members can attend all seminars by video conferencing link. To do so or for more information please contact Professor Lucia Nagib at l.nagib@leeds.ac.uk.

2009/2010 programme

 
Theoretical issues in world cinema

Seminar Series Part 1: ‘Theoretical Issues in World Cinemas’

       
         

21 October 2009

Dr Cecilia Sayad, University of Kent

Border crossing, corporality and performance: a study of authorial self-inscription in the cinema

18 November 2009 Dr Jerry White, University of Alberta Indigenous cinema: the Inuit case
2 December 2009

Prof Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck, University of London

Back to modernity: thoughts on reality, narrative, cinema from another technological age

Seminar Series Part 2: ‘Intercultural Dialogue with Japan’

3 February 2010

Jasper Sharp, University of Sheffield

The Japanese Nouvelle Vague
17 March 2010

Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, University of Leeds

Intercultural Dialogue with Japan: New Taiwan Cinema

5 May 2010

Prof Stephanie Donald, RMIT Melbourne

Children in Contemporary Chinese Film: Re-engaging with the Sino-Japanese War

last revised October 20, 2009

a Worldwide Universities Network website