Date: 8 January 2019
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Rm 303, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Speakers
Prof. Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Prof. Mette Hjort (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Moderator
Prof. Lim Song Hwee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Selected Texts
Hjort, Mette. “In Defense of Human Rights Filmmaking: A Response to the Skeptics, Based on Kenyan Examples.” in African Cinema and Human Rights, edited by Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt. 103-124. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2019.
Iordanova, Dina. “Choosing the Transnational.” Frames Cinema Journal 9 (April 2016): 1-5.
About the Speakers
Dina Iordanova is Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Culture at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She has published extensively on matters of transnational cinema and maintains that one of the most important things in film studies is to “watch across borders”.
Mette Hjort is Chair Professor of Humanities and Dean of Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners (2010), Stanley Kwan’s Centre-Stage (2006) and Small Nation, Global Cinema (2005).
Conducted in English. All are welcome.
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Organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK