[csaa-forum] Professor Lesley Stern: Public Lecture and Masterclass, call for expressions of interest

[Kirsten Stevens]

**Apologies for cross-posting**


*Public Lecture*


You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally
renowned film scholar, Professor Lesley Stern, titled  *"What Does (the)
Cinema Feel About (the) Animal?" *

*Date:* Thursday, 12th November 2015

*Time: *5:45pm

*Place:* Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins St Melbourne




*Masterclass for HDRs and ECRs*


Professor Stern will also be facilitating a masterclass for postgraduate
and early career researchers on the topic:*"Writing the Cinematic: Close
Analysis and Performativity." *


*Date:* Friday, 13th November 2015

*Place:* Monash University, Caulfield Campus




*"Writing the Cinematic: Close Analysis and Performativity."*

This masterclass will explore ways of enlivening filmic analysis through
writing strategies. Let's begin by assuming that good analysis relies on a
strong theoretical base and solid research, and that detailed description
will aid the reader to picture or imagine the scene (or shot, or sequence
...) being discussed, and thereby to follow a line of argument. But
detailed description can often turn out to be tedious and turgid. The
challenge we will explore in this workshop is how to engage a reader
through performative writing, while still remaining "true" to the object of
analysis. Applicants might choose to include an excerpt from an article or
chapter that they are working on or even that has been published, or they
might want to write something specifically for the workshop. What is most
important, for the workshop to work, is that it engage with the challenge.



*Expressions of Interest*

Postgraduate researchers and early career researchers (up to 5 years post
PhD) who would like to apply for the masterclass should contact Kirsten
Stevens (kirsten.stevens at monash.edu) by *Monday 5th October  *with an EOI
that includes 350 words detailing how you employ detailed analysis in your
projects and to what end (including if you wish, any particular challenges
you encounter). Please also provide a 150 word biographical statement.
Places in the workshop are limited.



For the class participants will be asked to undertake a small amount of set
reading and to circulate in advance a 1000 word piece of writing (filmic
analysis) amongst the class. Participants will each have an allotted time
to present and discuss their work.





*Professor Lesley Stern* is the author of *Dead and Alive: The Body as
Cinematic Thing, The Smoking Book* and *The Scorsese Connection,* and
co-editor of *Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance*. Her work
moves between a number of disciplinary locations and spans both theory and
production: although her reputation was established in the fields of film
theory and history, she is also known for her fictocritical writing. Her
work has been highly influential in the areas of film, performance,
photography, cultural history, postcolonialism, feminism and
gardening/ecocriticism.





Regards,

Belinda Smaill & Therese Davis



Sponsored by the Film and Screen Studies Program, the School of Media, Film
and Journalism and the Faculty of Arts, Monash University

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners, and Elders past and present,
of all the lands on which Monash University operates.
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