III CIMCiH - "Dissidences" - October 24-25, 2025 - Clark University (Worcester, MA)

Throughout history, women in Hispanic cinema have often carved out spaces of resistance —on screen and beyond. In this third edition of our conference we turn our gaze to dissidences: acts of defiance, voices from the margins, narratives that challenge dominant structures. Whether through fictional characters who disrupt the status quo, filmmakers who reinvent the industry’s rules, or cinematic languages that defy convention, we seek to explore the many ways in which women’s filmmaking has questioned, reimagined, and subverted the norm. This is a call to reflect on rebellion as both an aesthetic and political act, an individual and collective stance, a force of transformation.

Where do we locate dissent in Hispanic women’s cinema? How do filmmakers, past and present, resist and reshape the field? What forms does disobedience take in narratives, in production modes, in audience reception? How does cinema become a site of counter-hegemony, of radical storytelling, of alternative visions? We invite scholars to engage with these questions and to contribute to the discussion on dissidences in Hispanic women’s cinema through diverse critical perspectives.

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Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

• Women filmmakers on the periphery: geographical, industrial, aesthetic, or ideological margins

• Subversive storytelling: unconventional narratives, characters, and structures

• Counter-hegemonic visual languages and radical cinematic practices

• Feminist and queer disobediences in Hispanic cinema

• Independent, underground, and self-managed film production

• Censorship, resistance, and activism through film

• Women disrupting traditional film industries and institutional frameworks

• Forgotten or erased figures: recovering dissident voices from (Film) History

• Alternative spectatorships: audiences, reception, and new ways of engaging with film

• U.S. Latinas and film

• Hispanic women filmmakers around the world

• Pedagogical experiences: teaching films by Hispanic women filmmakers

• Creative processes: teams behind and in front of the camera

• Women in film production and distribution

• Interactions/ Filmic collaborations across the Hispanic world

• Hispanic women filmmakers in other languages

More details and submissions: www.cimcih.com