This postgraduate symposium will be held in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2nd November 2015.

Call for papers:

This day conference will explore filmic representations of girlhoods, of boyhoods, of transgender childhoods, of queer childhoods, considering how imaging of diverse gender identities intersects with questions of national and transnational identity. Both documentary and feature film will be encompassed, commercial and independent cinema. There will also be focus on home movies, found footage films, essay films, films by children, coming of age films, autobiographical films, experimental and avant-garde films. Céline Sciamma’sGirlhood (2014) and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2014) will offer further points of reference and discussion. Overall, cinema’s investment in or disruption of coherent and explanatory narratives of growing up will be our point of focus.

Keynote speakers:

Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex)

Sophie Mayer (QMUL)

Invited filmmaker:

Alina Marazzi

​Submissions:

We invite proposals (up to 200 words) for 15 minute presentations. It is envisaged that these will include a film clip of up to five minutes followed by analysis. For further details please contact Emma Wilson (efw1000@cam.ac.uk ).

Proposals should be sent to childnationcinema@rhul.ac.uk by 30th June 2015.

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For more information on the international research network, or to join the researcher database, please visit the website: http://childnationcinema.org/ or email childnationcinema@rhul.ac.uk

Network Partners:

Emma Wilson (Cambridge), Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (Liverpool), Sarah Wright (RHUL), Hannah Kilduff (Cambridge) and Zitong Qiu (Zhejiang University).