Migrant and Diasporic Cinema - News
Presentation about the Evolution of the Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Project
The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork, Ireland, marked the occasion of the opening of their new Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) with a series of Inaugural Lectures.In this occasion, Professor Daniela Berghahn, Royal Holloway, University of London, gave a talk on “Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe: The Evolution of a Research Project”
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 04 Aug 2015 •
BFI Film Classics on Head-On published
Daniela Berghahn's in-depth study of Fatih Akin's award-winning film GEGEN DIE WAND (Head-On, 2004) has just been published in the prestigious BFI Film Classics Series.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 10 Jun 2015 •
REF2014 Impact Case Study based on this project rated 4*
Professor Berghahn's impact case study "Representing Migration and Cultural Diversity in European Film(making)" was "judged to offer and demonstrate outstanding elements of impact" by the REF sub-panel.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 21 May 2015 •
NECS Conference Panel on Genre Transformation Beyond Bollywood
Daniela Berghahn convened a panel at the annual NECS conference at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (19-21 June 2014), which explored how the cultural logic of globalisation has fostered processes of intercultural borrowing and fusion and how these have impacted upon the (trans)formation of film genres.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 24 Jun 2014 •
Remapping Europe at the 16th ZEMOS98 Festival in Seville
Professor Daniela Berghahn and Dr Sarita Malik were invited by the European Cultural Foundation to contribute to the 16th ZEMOS 98 Festival in Seville (8-12 April 2014). This year’s Festival theme was Remapping Europe and the focus was on the (self-)representation of migrants in the media and their memories in transit.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 29 Apr 2014 •
The Cosmopolitan Cinema Conference at the University of Bayreuth
Daniela Berghahn was invited to explore the relationship between Diasporic and Cosmopolitan Cinema at an international conference on Cosmopolitan Cinema: Arts and Politics in the Second Modernity (3 – 5 April 2014).
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 05 Apr 2014 •
Two Network members give Keynotes at MeCCSA conference
Daniela Berghahn and Sarita Malik gave keynote addresses at this year's MeCCSA conference (8-10 January 2014) at Bournemouth University. They were joined by Darrell Newton at a plenary that explored Media and the Margins, which was also the MeCCSA conference theme this year.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 12 Jan 2014 •
Far-Flung Families in Film - new book
A few years ago, Daniela Berghahn, who led the Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Network, embarked on a new research project investigating the the representation of diasporic families in film. Her monograph Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema was published in May 2013. The book seeks to answer a number of key questions: Why have films with diasporic family narratives increased in popularity in recent years? How do representations of the diasporic family differ from those of more dominant social groups? How does diasporic cinema negotiate the conventions of film genres commonly associated with the representation of the family?
You can find more information about the book and Daniela Berghahn's research on diasporic families in European cinema at: www.farflungfamilies.net
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 14 Jul 2013 •