Global Queer Cinema is an AHRC funded
research network in the Translating Cultures scheme, and is located in the
School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex. The organisers are
Rosalind Galt (Sussex) and Karl Schoonover (Warwick).
The first symposium Queer Cinema and Aesthetics of the Global that Galt and Schoonover organised took place in 12-13 May 2012. This event brought together international scholars to consider the aesthetics and politics of queer cinema in a global context. Speakers included David Eng (University of Pennsylvania), Patricia White (Swarthmore College), Gayatri Gopinath (New York University), Song Hwee Lim (University of Exeter), Catherine Grant (University of Sussex), Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex), Shamira Meghani (University of Leeds) and Cüneyt Çakirlar (NTU). This two-day symposium’s format was participatory and aimed to generate debate and analysis. Speakers screened short clips from queer film or other moving image media and present informal analyses. Moreover, the participants circulated samples from their current research on the subject before the event and a series of intensive workshops and roundtable discussions took place. Questions Galt and Schoonover aimed to address included:
The first symposium Queer Cinema and Aesthetics of the Global that Galt and Schoonover organised took place in 12-13 May 2012. This event brought together international scholars to consider the aesthetics and politics of queer cinema in a global context. Speakers included David Eng (University of Pennsylvania), Patricia White (Swarthmore College), Gayatri Gopinath (New York University), Song Hwee Lim (University of Exeter), Catherine Grant (University of Sussex), Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex), Shamira Meghani (University of Leeds) and Cüneyt Çakirlar (NTU). This two-day symposium’s format was participatory and aimed to generate debate and analysis. Speakers screened short clips from queer film or other moving image media and present informal analyses. Moreover, the participants circulated samples from their current research on the subject before the event and a series of intensive workshops and roundtable discussions took place. Questions Galt and Schoonover aimed to address included:
(i) What is rendered visible by placing these three terms together:
‘global’, ‘queer’ and ‘cinema? What tensions are revealed, what rhetorics
engaged?
(ii)
How do presiding visions of the global depend upon the inclusion or exclusion
of queer lives?
(iii) How do the politics of neoliberalism and human rights
discourse intersect with queer lives? How does contemporary queer film and
media practice engage and refuse these tensions? How can we think about queer
visual aesthetics, and how do questions of form, style and genre coalesce in
contemporary queer politics?
(iv)
What kinds of global communities are produced (or precluded) by the histories
of the queer film festival, or of other modes of queer media consumption?
(v)
How can we theorise the role of popular cinema, art film, the avant-garde,
community and activist media in these political landscapes? Are these
distinctions necessary critical tools?
The second and final workshop, which
took place on 5-7 April 2013, reiterated the same format. The aim of the
network was again to bring together scholars working on international topics in
queer film and visual cultures, and to engage both senior and emerging
scholars. The event comprised Cüneyt Çakirlar (NTU), Rohit Dasgupta
(University of the Arts), Samar Habib (SOAS), Hoang Nguyen (Bryn Mawr), John
David Rhodes (Sussex), B. Ruby Rich (UC Santa Cruz), Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth),
and Juan Suarez (Murcia).
For further details of the project,
please visit http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/gqc/
For a sample of Cüneyt Çakirlar's
contribution in these two events he was invited to, please visit page of the
journal Screen (52:3).
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