1st International Conference on Cinema, Philosophy and Children’s World

9 - 10 July 2019

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Tuesday, 9 July 2019 (Program)

 

Opening

Panel 1       |     9.30 –11.00, Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

Chair: Danielle Simard

 

Marta Fiolić – Ethics and politics in cinematic portrayal of children refugees

Paulo Portugal – Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum: a child’s cry for human rights in an abusive world

Maria Irene Aparício – Cinema, childhood and human rights: balloons, kites and memories of the film in a changing world

 

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee-break

 

Panel 2     |     11.30 – 13.30, Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

Chair: Paulo Portugal

 

Luis Antunes – A metaphorical reading of The Never Ending Story (Wolfgang Petersen, 1984): towards a theory of cinematic simulation

Danielle Simard - Taking the audience out of time in Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone

Dina Mendonça – Inside Inside Out

Luís Lima/ Alexandra João Martins - Looking for a phalansterian community in Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows

 

13.30–14.30: Lunch

 

15.00 Keynote: Professor  Sarah Wright – Child performance in Carla Simon`s Estiu 1993 / Summer 1993 (Spain, 2017)

Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

Chair: Dina Mendonça

 

16.40 – 17.00: Coffee-break

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17.00 – 19.30: Film and discussion

Estiu 1993 / Summer 1993, directed by Carla Simón (Spain, 2017, 98’)

Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

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20.30: Meeting Dinner

 

 

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 (Program)

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Panel 3    |      9.30 –11.00, Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

Chair: Yeremias Jena

 

Catarina Calvinho Gil – Revisiting childhood through animation

Sina Knoll – "The Other" in childrens' cinema – Disney's The Jungle Book as a filmic prototype for shared world experience of animal and child

Liliana Rosa – How to play with dolls during and after the war? Representations of childhood in the New German Cinema

 

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee-break

 

Panel 4   |    11.30 – 13.00, Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

Chair: Sina Knoll

 

Yeremias Jena – Philosophical analysis of the film Rudy Habibie as a character learning medium in Indonesia

Ariuna Bogdan – The relations between children like a reflection of the adult’s world  

Dilar Cascalheira – Cinema Tough Love: representation of parenthood and parenting in the films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

 

13.30–14.30: Lunch

 

15.00 Keynote: Dr Deborah Martin – "Seen through gestures": children`s hands, space and the child`s world in film

Video-Essay: Water Turtles by Deborah Martin and Catherine Grant (2019, 5'03'')

Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

Chair: Sérgio Dias Branco

 

16.40 – 17.00: Coffee-break

17.00 – 19.30: Film and discussion 

La Ciénaga, directed by Lucrecia Martel (Argentina/Spain/France, 2001, 103`)

Auditorium 3, Tower B, 5th floor

Full Program

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