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6th Annual B-Film PGR Symposium
June 12, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 5:40 pm
About this event
We are pleased to announce the return of the B-Film Annual Postgraduate Researcher Symposium for 2023: ‘Film and Television: Memory, Nostalgia and Identity.’
The symposium will be hybrid and will take place on 12th June at the University of Birmingham (Carroll room, G15, miurhead tower) and via zoom.
Keynote speaker – Professor Danielle Hipkins (University of Exeter): Cinema, Memory, Girlhood
Registration:
Registration is necessary to attend – you may register either in-person or online attendance for the symposium (online registration includes zoom links for keynote). There is also a separate registration for those who may not be able to attend the entire day, but would like to attend in-person Prof. Danielle Hipkins’ keynote speech at 4:30pm.
Programme:
1:00-1:10 Welcome/Opening Remarks
1:10-2:10 Panel 1 – Genre and Nostalgia
- Matthew Bruce (University of Birmingham): The Portrayal of the Anachronistic ‘Hero’ in the OSS 117 films
- Jemma Saunders (University of Birmingham): From the Old Ragdoll to the Big Town: (Re)discovering Birmingham after Rosie and Jim and Brum (video-essay)
- Nina Jones (University of Birmingham): ‘We all had nightmares: The nostalgic effect of Crime Watch UK, gateway true crime and awakening the ‘Youth Sleuth’.
2:10-3:10 Panel 2 – Cultural Memory and Trauma
- Victor Gonzalez (University of Catalonia): Revisiting The Stand: The Nostalgic Allure of the 90s TV miniseries
- Irem Elbir (Hacettepe University): Cultural Memory and Minority Representation in Netflix’s The Club
- Shanshan Wu (University of Liverpool) : Trauma and Post-memory in documentary film One Child Nation (2019)
3:10-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 Panel 3 – Memory and Viewing Practices
- Matthew Bosica (University of Liverpool): Sleepers: Mediocre movies on HBO that formed a cycle of films for Generation X
- Cormac Donnelly (University of Glasgow): BBC2 – 9.30pm 19th September 1994
- Enes Akdag (Kadir Has University): From An Outdoor Cinema to Multiplex: Tracing Concept of Non-Places in The Case of Caddebostan Budak
4:30-5:30 Keynote Speaker – Prof Danielle Hipkins (University of Exeter): Cinema, Memory, Girlhood
5:30-5:40 Closing Remarks