PROGRAMME
(All presentations are in The Treehouse)
- 10.00 - Welcome (MG/SH)
- 10.15 - Elegy in L.A.: Blade Runner, Empathy and Death
Berys Gaut, University of St Andrews
- 11.00 - Race and the Ethics of Spectatorship: Hotel Rwanda and the whiteness of ‘respons-ibility’
Michele Aaron, University of Birmingham
- 11.45 - Tea/Coffe break
- 12.00 In the Grip of Grief: Epistemic Impotence and the Materiality of Mourning in Shinya Tsukamoto’s Vital
Havi Carel, UWE Bristol
- 13.00- 14.30 - Lunch (including screening of' 'The Memorial' (2010)) - NOTE: this will be held at Bowland Auditorium)
- 14.30 - The Death of Six Million in Boston
Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen
- 15.15 - Cheating Death: Forever Young on Film
Christopher Belshaw, Open University
- 16.00 - Tea/Coffee break
- 16.15 - Entr'acte, Relâche, and the Comedic Value of a Million Dead
Christopher Townsend, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 17.00 - screenings/closing remarks
