<div dir="ltr"><div>**Apologies for cross-posting**</div><div><br></div><div><div><font size="4"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Reminder - Public Lecture Tonight<span class=""> </span></font><font color="#38761d"> </font></b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px">You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally renowned film scholar, Professor </span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px">Lesley</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px"> </span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px">Stern:</span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div><b style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#3d85c6" size="4">How Does (the) Cinema Feel About (the) Animal? </font></b><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><b style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px">Date:</b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px"> Today, Thursday 12</span><sup style="font-family:Arial">th</sup><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px"> November</span><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#000000"><b>Time: </b>5:45pm</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#000000"><b>Place:</b> Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins St Melbourne</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">In the cinema all things are potentially equal: objects, people, animals. All things come into being—come alive, acquire performative powers—through cinematic magic. But even though the cinema is not exclusively human it has surely been permeated by the spirit of human exceptionalism. Bad blood enshrouds the inception of cinema, and its legacy is a haunting. When we watch movies today we cannot avoid the presence of ghosts: slaughtered elephants, galloping horses, sacrificial dogs, carnivorous bears—all hover and materialize and enter our dreams. Much recent work in cinema studies has turned attention to the place of the animal in the cinema and this paper is enabled by such work. However, rather than thinking through generalities my attention is caught, today, by moments of sensuous intensity, by fragments and scenes from various films in which animals and people and places are brought into strangely affective alliance. Reaching from Buster Keaton’s<span class=""> </span><i>Go West<span class=""> </span></i>to<span class=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="text-decoration:none">Apichatpong Weerasethakul</span></span></font><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">’s<span class=""> </span><i>Tropical Malady</i>, the paper will speculate on how films (via modes of mimeticism, empathetic projection, animistic gestures) might affect and change the way we feel and identify across differences.</font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Professor <span class="">Lesley</span> <span class="">Stern</span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US"> is the author of <em>Dead and Alive: The Body as Cinematic Thing, The Smoking Book</em> and <em>The Scorsese Connection,</em> and co-editor of <em>Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance</em>. 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.</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Sponsored by the Film and Screen Studies Program, the School of Media, Film and Journalism and the Faculty of Arts, Monash University</font></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><br class=""></div></div></div>