Organized by Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies) and Ervin Malakaj (CENES), this symposium brings together scholars at UBC working in any area of queer/trans cinema studies.
The event is open to the public and no prior registration is required.
Join us on Saturday, March 30 from 12:00pm-5:30pm in Buchanan Tower room 997 for an afternoon of conversation and community around emerging scholarship at UBC.
SCHEDULE
12:00-12:15 Welcome and Introductions
Moderator: Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies) and Ervin Malakaj (CENES)
12:15-13:45 Session 1
Moderator: Ervin Malakaj (CENES)
- “The Many Lives of Girls in Uniform” Ilinca Iurascu (CENES)
- “‘A different kind of love story’: Queering Race, Gender and Genre in The Half of It” JP Catungal (GRSJ)
- “Queering the Visuals: Summer Vacation 1999 and Haptic Voices” Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies)
14:00-15:30 Session 2
Moderator: Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies)
- “Cinephilistinism and the Second Coming” William Brown (Theatre & Film)
- “In search of begumpurā: abject bodies’ quest for belongingness in ek jagah apni” Shubham Arora (Asian Studies)
- “Ambient Green Screens” Danielle Wong (English Language and Literatures)
- “Public Humanities and Gay Shit” Tim Frandy (CENES)
15:45-17:15 Session 3
Moderator: Ervin Malakaj (CENES)
- “Queering the Derech: Queer analysis of E.A. Dupont’s Das alte Gesetz (1923)” Braden Russell (CENES)
- “Impossible Borderlands, Possible Crossings: Punjabi Cinema and its Queer Discontents” Kiran K. Sunar (Asian Studies)
- “Shallow Focus and Queer Intimacy” Ervin Malakaj (CENES)
- “Queer Film Pedagogy: Does It Have an Impact?” Chelsea Birks (Theatre & Film; The Cinematheque)
17:30 Symposium End
Moderator: Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies)