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