Deadline: March 1st, 2021 Symposium: Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, November 19th, 2021 The Jeudis du genre research group (CAS 1, EA 803) is calling for papers on the influence of feminist film theories and intersectional feminist theories on feminist films and series produced in the English-speaking world of the 21st century. The objective of the symposium is to acknowledge how the works of feminist scholars and feminist film scholars have influenced filmmakers a

Analysing intersectionality in cinema. Circulation of a concept, in France and the United States A concept coined in 1989 in American law by researcher Kimberlé Crenshaw, intersectionality was initially intended to reflect a blind spot in the apprehension of violence suffered by black American women, exposed to various types of discrimination. Subsequently, the interest of the concept widened to consider the interaction between several forms of domination (gender, sex

Where: Harvard University When: March 29-30, 2019 Proposals Due: January 15, 2019 Keynote Speaker: Nancy Bauer ( Tufts University) Panel Respondents: Moira Weigel (Harvard), Robert Reid-Pharr (Harvard), and others. *** The #MeToo movement has raised questions about the ethics of love, sex, and desire. Narrowly, it has raised questions about sexual consent and violation; broadly, it has raised questions about attraction, power, monogamy, adultery, sex work, and more. Thinkers