Documentary and the Environment: A One Day Symposium
2012 July 24
You are warmly invited to a one-day symposium at the University of Surrey on Documentary and the Environment.
There is no fee for attendance. Please register by contacting Helen Hughes via email at h.hughes@surrey.ac.uk.
All events will take place in the Nodus Building, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH. Information on how to get to the University and a map of the campus can be found at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/about/visitors/
9.00 – 9.30 Registration and Welcome
9.30 – 11.00 Panel 1 Talking Categories
John Duvall, (Dominican University of California) ‘Sub-Genres of the Environmental Documentary’
Sandrine Lage, (Sorbonne University, Paris) ‘The inscription of the documentary Le Syndrome du Titanic in the French public debate about ecology’
Tam Yee-lok, (City University of Hong Kong)‘Three Ecologies Embodied: Body, Environment and Capitalism in Chinese Coal Mining Documentaries’
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30 Panel 2 Communicating Crisis
Amanda Katili Niode, (Indonesian National Council on Climate Change/DNPI) ‘Climate Change in Our Backyard’
Geo Takach, (University of Calgary in Alberta) ‘Documentary, dissent, and Alberta’s bituminous sands’
Tatiana Signorelli Heise (University of Manchester) ‘From shock tactics to green sensibility: the environmental turn in animal-advocacy films’
Reina-Marie Loader, (University of Exeter) ‘The Living Documentary: the Ethical Representation of Environmental Issues with Socio-Political Implications’
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.30- 16.00 Â Panel 3 Local Stories
Alasdair Oldham, (University of the West of England) ‘Documentary made sustainable : The Bristol Bike Project, from grassroots workshop to globalised audience.’
Anne Marie Carty (filmmaker) & Dr Dafydd Sills-Jones (Aberystwyth University), ‘Portraying ‘Aunti Beti’: The Environment, The Individual and the Landscape’
Sam Christie (Aberystwyth University)& Paul Newland (Aberystwyth University), ‘Cantre’r Gwaelod and Tales of Inundation’
16.00 – 16.30 Tea Break
16.30 – 17.30 Panel 4 Eco-Entertainment
Vincent Campbell,  (University of Leicester) ‘“Weather Pornâ€: The Shift from Documentary to Factual Entertainment’
Christine Cornea, (University of East Anglia) ‘Eco-tainment: the case of Life After People (History Channel, 2008)’
17.30 – 18.00 Final Discussion: The Future of the Eco-doc
Dr Helen Hughes
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
School of Arts
University of Surrey
01483 682837
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