conference programme
click here for a printable version
Day 1/ Friday 7 March, Senate House (Senate Room, 1st floor)
1.30-2.00: welcome and introduction
2.00-3.45:
· Robert Murphy (De Montfort University): ‘An American in London: Jules Dassin and Night and the City’
· Philip Horne (University College London): ‘Placing Peeping Tom’
· Maureen Thomas (University of Cambridge): ‘Do I See You? London Mirror’ (on London in Bollywood cinema)
· Karolina Kendall-Bush (University College London): ‘Location Limehouse: Visiting the Streets of London’s Lost Chinatown’
chair: Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick)
4.15-5.30:
· Richard Koeck (University of Liverpool): on the Cinematic Geographies of Battersea
· Aileen Reid (Survey of London, Bartlett School of Architecture): ‘Battersea in Film: a Case of Location Anxiety?’
· Chris O’Rourke (University College London): ‘In the Streets of Film-land: Locating London’s Cinema History’
chair: Roland-François Lack (University College London)
· Richard Koeck (University of Liverpool): on the Cinematic Geographies of Battersea
· Aileen Reid (Survey of London, Bartlett School of Architecture): ‘Battersea in Film: a Case of Location Anxiety?’
· Chris O’Rourke (University College London): ‘In the Streets of Film-land: Locating London’s Cinema History’
chair: Roland-François Lack (University College London)
5.30-6.10:
· Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Archive): ‘Mapping Early Films: Copenhagen as a Case’
chair Ian Christie (Birkbeck College)
· Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Archive): ‘Mapping Early Films: Copenhagen as a Case’
chair Ian Christie (Birkbeck College)
6.20: drinks reception in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London
Day 2/ Saturday 8 March, Birkbeck Cinema and Senate House
9.45 (for 10.00): Birkbeck Cinema
· preview screening of Another London, a film written and presented by architectural historian Robert Harbison, introduced by the director Hector Arkomanis
9.45 (for 10.00): Birkbeck Cinema
· preview screening of Another London, a film written and presented by architectural historian Robert Harbison, introduced by the director Hector Arkomanis
11.40-1.00:
· Angelina Karpovich (Brunel University): ‘Jacob Richter’s London’ (on Lenin in London)
· Eleni Liarou (Birkbeck College): ‘London’s Modern Babylon: Film, Memory and Public History’
· Martin Brady (King’s College London): 'The street that didn't vanish: Hessel Street 1962/2007/2014'
Chair: Roland-François Lack (University College London)
· Angelina Karpovich (Brunel University): ‘Jacob Richter’s London’ (on Lenin in London)
· Eleni Liarou (Birkbeck College): ‘London’s Modern Babylon: Film, Memory and Public History’
· Martin Brady (King’s College London): 'The street that didn't vanish: Hessel Street 1962/2007/2014'
Chair: Roland-François Lack (University College London)
1.00: lunch at Senate House
2.00-3.30 (Senate House (Senate Room, 1st floor):
· Ian Christie (Birkbeck): ‘Drab Streets: London Crime Scenes’
· Les Roberts (University of Liverpool): ‘Locating the City in Film: Navigating the Archive City’
closing discussion
· Ian Christie (Birkbeck): ‘Drab Streets: London Crime Scenes’
· Les Roberts (University of Liverpool): ‘Locating the City in Film: Navigating the Archive City’
closing discussion
