film and television

Dear UPENN Colleagues, apologies for cross-posting, this is the final reminder that the call for papers deadline for this year’s Cine-Excess XI international Film Festival and Conference is Friday 22nd September. With the recent confirmation that our filmmaking guest for 2017 will be the cult Italian director Sergio Martino (Torso, All the Colours of the Dark, The Violent Professionals), we have extended the current call for papers’ deadline to this date to invite presentations on the director’s work.

Wilson College Humanities ConferenceThe Anxiety Disorder

Saturday, February 24, 2018
10:00am-5:00pm
Held in the Brooks Complex of Wilson College
Chambersburg, PA
sponsored by Wilson’s M.A. in Humanities Program

CFP: Edited Collection: Excessive Reflections: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American Gothic

Background: 

Young adults have historically been both subject to and perpetrators of violence, regardless of social class or culture of provenience. In the 20th and 21st century, literature and media have paid special attention to this relationship, focusing particularly on how violence shapes youths who will become the "leaders of tomorrow." Different cultures assign distinct values to the threats and challenges young adults face and, likewise, demonstrate varying responses to violence against or by youths.

As Holocaust survivors were liberated from concentration camps, prisons, and places of hiding—among other compromised milieus they were forced to inhabit from 1939–45—they brought the memories and the trauma of the Holocaust to the places they eventually came to call “home.” Bringing such emotional and psychological burdens with them, many survivors settled abroad—from Argentina to Canada and from the United States to Israel—and established families, rearing those who would later be called “second-generation” Holocaust witnesses. These children of Holocaust survivors (and their children) have become the carriers and bearers of their parents’ memories and trauma that came to define the domestic experience of survivor households.