Intersecting Identities: Race, Sex, Nation

The 7th annual conference of BAFTSS, the UK’s leading subject association for Film Studies, will be held at Birmingham on Thursday 25, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April 2019.

It will feature keynote lectures by Prof Rosalind Galt (KCL) on ‘Vampire Transnationalism: intersecting identities in postcolonial horror’ and Prof Will Higbee (Exeter) on ‘Commonality – place – difference : intersectionality and the banlieue film’, as well as the presentation of BAFTSS’ Outstanding Achievement Award to Emeritus Prof Pam Cook (Southampton) and thirty-six panels of academic papers, eight of which are organized by BAFTSS’s SIGs (Special Interest Groups).

The conference organizer is Dr Kate Ince (DoML) of LCAHM, assisted by PGR Diane Michael (DoML) and other B-Film doctoral researchers.

You can see fuller information and a programme at https://www.baftss.org/conf-2019, and register to attend via a link on the same page or in the UoB Online Shop at https://shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-arts-law/school-of-languages-cultures-art-history-music/baftss-conference-2019-intersecting-identities. Please come along!

Photo from the shoot of Belle (dir. Amma Asante, 2013) of the director, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido Elizabeth Belle and Matthew Goode as Captain Sir John Lindsay. Belle will be screened at the conference by B-Film: the Birmingham Centre for Film Studies, with an introduction by Dr Cat Lester of the Department of Film and Creative Writing.