ScheduleEvent local time

November 7, 2024 - Getafe Campus, 17 Building (Ortega y Gasset). Room 17.2.75

 

9.30h. Registration.

 

10.15-10.45h. Opening Ceremony

Speakers: Manuel Palacio (Director of the University Institute of Spanish Cinema UC3M) and Farshad Zahedi (IUCE UC3M-Tecmerin)

 

10.45 - 12.00h. Keynote I. Techno-ecologies of Terra Nullius before and after History. Professor Sean Cubitt. School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.

Chair: Farshad Zahedi (IUCE-UC3M)

 

12.00 - 12.30h. Coffee break

 

12:30 - 13:30h. Session I: Navigating Ecological and Epistemic Landscapes: Militarization, Tradition, and Digital Consciousness.

Chair: Marta Lopera (UC3M-Tecmerin)

  • Addressing Nation-State Militarization: Racial Ecologies at the Gettysburg National Military Park. Salma Monani, Gettysburg College

  • “Kaala Paani” and Hope in the times of Ecological Precarity: A Case Study on Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Endangered Ethno-medicine. Krishanu Adhikari, Kandra Radhakanta Kundu Mahavidyalaya, Kandra College.

  • DigiChina and Ecocivilization: On Methods of Governmentality. Victor Fan, King’s College London.

 

13.30 - 15.00h. Lunch time

 

15.00 - 16.30h. Session II: Ecological Narratives in Cinema: Feminism, and Environmental Catastrophes.

Chair: Francisco Jiménez (UC3M-Tecmerin)

  • Formalist Cli-fi Film Analysis of Nuoc 2030. Nazife Ebru Güney, Bahcesehir University.

  • An Audiovisual Portrait of Vietnamese Ecofeminism in Nguyễn-Võ Nghiêm-Minh’s 2030. Karen Siu, Rice University.

  • Landscape, Society, and Ecocatastrophes in Maoist Cinema: The Idea of Nature from Shanshui to Collective Effort. Stefano Locati, IULM University, Milan.

  • Visions of change: an ecological and feminist cinema view of the city and the inaka. Nieves Moreno, TAI Arts School.

 

16.30 - 17.00h. Coffee break

 

17.00 - 18.30h. Session III: Exploring Nature and Agency in Japanese Cinema: Dualities, Ecocriticism, and Environmental Narratives.

Chair: Ana Mejón (IUCE-UC3M)

  • Mapping a Lost Era’s Techno-Imaginary of the End of the World. An Anthropological Exploration of Japanese Bio-Apocalypticism in the Ushinawareta Nijūnen Cli-Fi Media (1988 - 2002). Imen Bouziri Boullosa (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Wielding and Caring for the Weather: Individual Agency and Reactionary Care in Makoto Shinkai’s Tenki no Ko. Jordi Serrano Muñoz, Open University of Catalonia.

  • Thanato-ecocinema: Representations of Nature and Death in Takahata and Miyazaki’s works. Susana Viegas, NOVA University Lisbon.

  • Water Conflicts and Affected Communities: Ecocritical Aesthetics in the Japanese Films Memories of Agano (2004) and Evil Does not Exist (2023). Ariadna Cordal García, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

 

November 8, 2024 - Getafe Campus, 17 Building (Ortega y Gasset). Room 17.2.75

 

9.30 - 11.00h. Keynote II. Realism under Water: Cities and Climate Change in Asian Film. Professor Ursula Heise. Department of English, The University of California Los Angeles.

Chair: Farshad Zahedi (IUCE-UC3M)

 

11.00 - 11.30h. Coffee break

 

11.30 - 13.00h. Session IV: Ecodystopian Worlds. Environmental Narratives in Asian Cinema and Videogames.

Chair: Luis Cemillán (UC3M-Tecmerin)

  • The duality of nature in the cinema of Miyazaki Hayao. Religious and anthropological implications in “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”, “Princess Mononoke” and “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”. Raúl Fortes-Guerrero, University of Valencia.

  • Sounding disasters: Arabimalayalam Flood songs on the Kerala Floods of 1924 and the representations of Disasterscapes. Abdul Basith Kunhome, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

  • Ecodystopian discourses and environmental perspectives in contemporary Asian ecogames: Nier: Automata (Platinum Games, 2017). Natalia Martínez Pérez, Roberto Martín González and Iñigo Gómez Zapata, University of Burgos.

  • Solastalgia and Econostalgia in Asian Games: The Case of Mother 3. Mario Alaguero Rodriguez, María del Pilar Bermúdez Martínez and Diana Compán Cabrera, University of Burgos.

 

13.00 - 14.15h. Session V: Asian Perspectives on Cinema, Ecology, and Climate Crisis: From Wildlife Conservation to Apocalyptic Imagery.

Chair: María Achkar (UC3M)

  • Aparna SenYugant (1995) and Leila Kilani Indivision (2024): ecology, social class and gender relations. Alejandra Val Cubero, University Carlos III de Madrid

  • Apocalyptic Imagery and Ecological Emergencies in Japanese Anime and live-action magic-nature films. Ivan Pintor Iranzo (University Pompeu Fabra), Marta Lopera Mármol (University Carlos III de Madrid) and Manel Jiménez Morales (University Pompeu Fabra).

  • Asian thought, Cinema and Climate Crisis. Farshad Zahedi, University Carlos III de Madrid.

 

14.15-14.30h. Closing ceremony.