schedule
Day 1: 10th of October – Film Screenings (Grand Auditorium)
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17:00 – Kihima Kanyangi short-films:
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UNBROKEN VOICES (27:25 - English/Swahili) – An exploration of the story of resilience amongst gender violence and rape survivors in Kenya (Mukuru kwa Njenga Slums)
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COATED (10:25 - English) – A young female musician enters a toxic relationship with an abusive man and it costs here more than she ever thought possible.
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JUU YA DOH (06:54 - English/Swahili) – The unity of a people is dependent on the circulation of money in society.
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OUST (12:15 - English/Swahili) – A toxic relationship as experienced by a young couple in Kenya.
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Presentation – Tiago Mindrico
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Day 2: 11th of October – Performance (Grand Auditorium)
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17:00 – sub_bar Performance
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Day 3: 14th of October (Conference)
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09:30 – Registration
10:30 – Outcasts Conference Presentation (Room 2.07)
11:00 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Panel 1 “Exploring Memory and Identity: Outsider Perspectives in Film” (Room 2.07)
• Anna Suvorova – “Film and video experiments of Outsiders from Marginality to Mainstream”
• Fernando Cascais – “Supernatural, a Animanidade”
• VojtÄ›ch DvoÅ™ák – “What the Unhoused Tell”
Moderation – Bruno Leal
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13:00 – Lunch Break
15:30 – Panel 2 “Voices of Resilience: Agency and Representation in Marginalized Narratives” (Room 2.07)
• Alicja Bemben – “(Mis)understanding expressions of agency in dementia-affected individuals”
• Sara Giudice – “The Autistic Mediated Body”
• Tushar Srivastava – “Return to a Memory-place in Andrew Haigh’s ‘All of Us Strangers’”
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Moderation – Marzia d’Amico
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17:00 – Coffee Break
17:30 / 20:15 – KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS (Grand Auditorium)
• 17:30 – 18:15: TAYLOR MCCUE
Moderation – Bruno Leal
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• 18:30 – 19:15: PAULA LOVELY
Moderation – Marzia d’Amico
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• 19:30 – 20:15: AFRONTOSAS
Moderation – Bruno Gularte Barreto
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This session is co-sponsored by the Quir Research Hub (CEComp)
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Day 4: 15th of October (Conference)
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11:30 – Panel 3 “Framing the Other Regional Cinemas and Global Narratives” (Room 2.07)
• Deepthi Krishna Thota – “Region, Language, Religion, Identity: A Critical Reading of 'Kaiku Baingan’ of Deccani Films”
• Deivendra Kumara – “Counter Narratives Dalit Representation and Cultural Turns in Contemporary Tamil Cinema”
• Reza John Vedadi – “Hollywood's Lens on Palestinian Identity Analysing the Intersection of Cinema and US Foreign Policy”
Moderation – Bruno Gularte Barreto
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13:00 – Lunch Break
15:30 – Panel 4 “Artistic Convergences: Poetics and Innovations in Contemporary Expression”
• João Barriga – “Verticalidade poética, horizontalidade política”
• Jonathan Mbinga Mwambi – “The Computers’ Might, Forget! Advancing Collage Techniques to Transform Photographs into Multidimensional Concept Art and HyperRealistic Paintings”
• Keita
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Moderation – Yasuhiro Morinaga
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17:00 – Coffee Break
17:30 – KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS (Grand Auditorium)
• 17:30 – 18:30 KIHIMA KANYANGI – "Resilience and Reality: A Journey Through Kenyan Voices"
Moderation – Tiago Mindrico
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• 18:30 – 20:00 FRANCESCO SPAGGIARI​
Moderation – Mariana Dias
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20:00 – Closing Dinner