Symposia

The theme of the BAFTSS 7th Annual Conference University of Birmingham, 25-27 April 2019,  is ‘Intersecting Identities: Race, Sex, Nation.’  Deadline for proposals is: Friday 14 December 2018 with completed proposal forms sent to baftssconferencegmail.com If you are interested in organising a panel or presenting a paper with the GSSN group at the conference, please contact Helen Hughes h.hughessurrey.ac.uk and Elizabeth Ward e.m.wardhull.co.uk by 1 December 2018. Individual abstracts and additional panels ... Read more

This two-day symposium explores and celebrates the work and legacy of Lotte Eisner, author of the seminal text on Weimar silent film The Haunted Screen (orig.1952). A film critic, journalist and, for over thirty years, archivist at the Cinémathèque Française, Eisner, was born in Berlin in 1896  as the daughter of a wealthy assimilated Jewish family. She died in Paris in 1983, having fled there in 1933 and where she remained for ... Read more