Close-Up 2009
Close-Up is the annual symposium organised by the CFPMA when academics from across the university gather to discuss their research interests.
| Date | 17th June 2009 |
| Time | 10.15am - 5pm |
| Place | William Robertson Building and David Hume Conferece Room, George Square |
Programme
10.15am Coffee and Welcome
10.30am Welcome
Annette Davison (Music, ACE and Director, CFPMA), Martine Beugnet (LLC, Convener of Film Studies), with representatives from LHC.
11am Individual presentations
- Andrew Lawrence (African studies, SSPS) - Difficult satire under austerity: the films of Sissako and Amoussou
- Martine Beugnet (Film studies, LLC) - The wounded screen
- Stephen Cairns (Architecture, ACE) - Cultures of legibility: emergent urban landscapes in southeast Asia
- Simon Frith and Annette Davison (Music, ACE) - The role of cinemas in the history of live music
- Mary Fogarty (Music, ACE) - The new silent cinema in live
- Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt (Asian studies, LLC) - Japanese language and culture in J-pop
- Kriss Ravetto (Film studies, LLC) - Spectres of the digital
- Eric Laurier (Geosciences) - Agreements in editing
- Parag Mital (Visual cognition lab, PPLS) - Dynamic images and eye movements
- Smita Kheria (Law) - Copyright law and new media art
Lunch 1 - 2pm
2pm Joint Presentations
- Richard Coyne, Penny Travelou, Mark Wright (ACE, ECA and Informatics) - Emerging forms of digital media and the democratization of urban discourse
- Joylon Mitchell, Alina Birzache, Milja Radovic, Yasmin Fedda (Divinity) - Seeing through film, religion and ethics
3pm Coffee
3.30pm Discussion forum 1
Cross-Subject/School/Institution teaching and research supervision: current/future plans.
Chair: Kriss Ravetto
Contributions: Martine Beugnet, Sarah Colvin, John Lee, Fiona Littleton, Martine Pierquin
4pm Info and updates
- Knowledge transfer and exchange: Anne-Sofie Laegran
- CFPMA web presence: Annette Davison
- 'Film in the Public Space' and the Robert Fund: Martine Beugnet
4.20pm Discussion forum 2
The future of the CFPMA.
Chairs: Annette Davison and Martine Beugnet
What could the Centre usefully do/encourage to support its members and foster research collaboration?
5pm Break and move to DHT conference room for wine reception
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