CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
MARCH 31 – APRIL 1 2017
Friday 9 – 10:40 a.m. (3)
Panel 1
- Reinhartz, Religion, Body and Place inFélix et Meira (Quebec, 2014)
- Shenker, That made me a woman: On body and gender representations in Israel’s religious-community films-making
- Pham, Church, Sex, and the LGBT Bildungsroman: A Critique of Narrative Mediocrity inHenry Gamble’s Birthday Party
- Silverman, Primitivism, Kabbalah, and James Cameron’sAvatar: Mythic Redemption on Planet Pandora
Panel 2
- Powell, “The Beginning Ends, the End Begins”: Religion and Subversive Filmmaking in Jean Renoir’sThe River (1951)
- Arafa, Egyptian Cinema and Representation of Islam Amidst Caricatures of Modernity
- Lagasse, Reconstructing the Hindu Household, or the Postmodern Politics of Indian Cinema in English
- Nag, Dedicated to Gods, Possessed by Spirits: Documenting Religion and Women
Panel 3
- Schweigert, From the Propositional to the Relational: Religion and the Films of Caveh Zahedi
- Dias Branco, Divinely Human: Robert Bresson’s Spiritual Reflections
- Kickasola, Engagement and Transformation: Poetic Documentary and the Contours of Religious Experience
Friday 11 – 12:40 (2)
Panel 1
- Blizek, The Expected Places of Religion, Communities, and Institutions
- Sharper, When Hollywood Goes to War, Does Religion Follow: A Look at the “Enlistment” of Religious Discourse in Selected US World War Two Films
- Carter-Chand, The Fragility of Goodness and Corruption: The Salvation Army in 20th Century Film
- Gomez-Morales, ReadingMi Pequeño Angelito (Home Alone) Film through Hispanic Eyes
Panel 2
- Goodwin, “Surely the LORD is in this Movie Theater”: Transcending Place Through Montage
- Gunawan, The Concept of Beauty: Jesus Films Before and After 1968
- Deweese-Boyd, Scorsese’sSilence: Film as Practical Theodicy
Friday 2 – 3:40 (2)
2 – 3:45 p.m., Optional screening, Son of Saul, 141 Newhouse 3
Panel 1
- Bakshi, Hindu customs, conservation and violence: Female sexuality and caste in Aparna Sen’sSati and Goutam Ghose’s Antarjali Jatra
- Mahmoud, Professional Interlopers: Religion and Professional Women in Egyptian Cinema Classics
- Dasgupta, Negotiating ‘Home’ and its ‘other’ in Aparna Sen’s36, Chowringhee Lane: A representation of an ‘in-between’ Indian Christian lady
Panel 2
- Yaccobi, A Shtetel in Minnesota: Archaic Ontology in the Cinema of the Coen Brothers
- West, The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak: Embodiment, Transcendence, and Sacro-Historical Spectatorship in the Historico-Biblical Epic
- Choe, Religion on Screen: Haunting Memories and Surviving Images in Park Chan-kyong and Apochatpong Weerasethakul’s Films
- Wagner, “Carrying the Fire”: Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Cormac McCarthy’s NovelThe Road and its Filmic Adaptation
4 – 6 p.m., Plenary, Son of Saul, 141 Newhouse 3 with Sara Horowitz (Professor, York University) and June Hwang (Associate Professor, University of Rochester)
Saturday 8:30 – 10:10 (3)
Panel 1
- Alderman, “Another Time and Another Place”: Apocalyptic Elements inPan’s Labyrinth
- Norden, Religious Perspectives in Hammer’s Early Dracula Films
- Shafiq, Religion in Bollywood Horror
Panel 2
- Cochran, “A lot of midgets tend to kill themselves”: Strange Bodies and Sacramentality in Martin McDonagh’sIn Bruges
- Rothschild, Looking at periodic social prohibitions through films that are re-telling a man-creation story
- Roubach, Body, Memory and Redemption:The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Panel 3
- Cowans, Breaking the Habit: The Decline of ‘Missionary Film’ in the Decolonization Era, 1958-1966
- Van Hell,Of Gods and Men: the place of a monastery in Des Hommes and Des Dieux and its impact on viewers
- Chaness, Inflammatory Indigenous Images: Playing Indian and Staying Indian in James Cameron’sAvatar
- Angeles, Philippine Muslim Women on Film
Saturday 10:25 – 12 (2)
Panel 1
- Alimi, Michael Haneke’s Liberal Critique of Religion, and a Kierkegaardian Reply
- Steele, Everywhere and Nowhere: Process Theology in Terrence Malick’sThe Tree of Life
- Scalia, The Art of Movie-going: The Screened World of Walker Percy’sThe Moviegoer
Panel 2
- Petersen, Intercultural Cinema and American Muslim Filmmaking
- Bazzano, Wadjdafor Westerners: Combatting Stereotypes about Islam through a Subversive Saudi Drama
- Cheref, “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction”: A Comparative Study of Submission(2004) by Theo van Gogh and Of Gods and Men (2010) by Xavier Beauvois
- Goodwin, “I Can Take Your Eyes”: Gender and Surveillance in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
1:30 – 4:15 p.m., Screening, What Now? Remind Me, Watson Auditorium
4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Plenary, What Now? Remind Me, with director Joaquim Pinto, Watson Auditorium
5:45 – 7 p.m., Closing reception, Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center
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