Dementia in Film, Media and Culture
This 性用社ium seeks to bring together academics and practitioners interested in the ways in which dementia is represented in culture and what consequences these representations might have in public domains and in broader understandings of the condition.
- Purpose & Overview
- Programme
- Attendance Information
- Getting Here
The 性用社ium takes a special interest in film, literature and media, but would be glad to receive papers on any cultural form. Likewise, academics and practitioners from any discipline or any area of practice are very welcome to attend and give papers.
A one day 性用社ium at 性用社 University, Edinburgh, 31st May 2024
听9am 鈥 9.30: Registration and coffee.
9.30: Welcome, Michael Stewart.
9.35 鈥 10.30
Keynote: 鈥楧ementia and film: Questions of narrative, genre and representation鈥, Sadie Wearing, London School of Economics.
10.30: Coffee
10.45 鈥 12.15
Session 1: Ethics
听Panel chair: Tony Tracy, University of Galway
鈥楨thical reflections in documentary creation: A case study of the Norwegian documentary Stay鈥, Camilla Vanebo, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.
鈥楧ementia, end-of-life care, and the doctor-patient relationship in Dust of Diamond Highways (Zolt谩n V谩mos, 2022)鈥, Eszter Ureczky, University of Debrecen.
鈥楬ow useful are dementia-friendly screenings?鈥, MaoHui Deng, University Manchester.
鈥楨arly-onset Alzheimer鈥檚 in twenty-first-century French literature: Ethics and aesthetics鈥, Avril Tynan, University of Turku.
鈥 鈥淔ear of Fanny鈥: A case study depiction of dementia in a biographical television drama, considering impact, legacy, and responsibility鈥, Kevin Geddes, Edinburgh Napier University.
12.15 鈥 1.15: Lunch
1.15 鈥 2.45
Session 2: Memory
Panel chair: Eszter Ureczky
鈥楧ementia and memory in visual culture of the contemporary Sinosphere鈥, Corey Schultz, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
鈥楾he affective intermediality of the analogue in recent documentaries on dementia鈥, Melinda Blos-J谩ni, Sapientia Hungarian University of Cluj-Napoca.
鈥楧ementia, genre and affect in The Father, Vortex and One Fine Morning鈥, Michael Stewart, 性用社 University, Edinburgh.
鈥楩ather, son and the state of the nation: Representing dementia in Our Friends in the North (1996)鈥, Jeremy Collins, London Metropolitan University.
鈥楥inematic theatricality as 鈥渇ree indirect vision鈥 of dementia in The Father (dir. Florian Zeller, 2018)鈥, Ilia Ryzhenko, University of Warwick.
2.45: Tea
3pm- 4.30
Session 3: AI and digital culture
听Panel chair: Michael Stewart
鈥楨yes, vision and dementia: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images and character descriptions of people with dementia鈥, Emma Putland and Gavin Brookes, Lancaster University.
鈥楢I-generated images cultivate imagination of reminiscence therapy: Performative conversations for people living with dementia in Taiwan鈥, Sih-Ying Hsieh, University of Glasgow; Mei-Hui Liao, Collaborative Lecturer of Art For All; Min-Chen Wang, Director of Social Work Division, Excelsior Health Foundation.
鈥楾he stigmatisation of dementia in Chinese online community: An analysis of online video posts and following comments related to dementia on Xiaohongshu鈥, Jiahui Qi, University of Leicester.
鈥楥ritical and post-humanist perspectives on dementia documentaries: Human Forever (2023) and Are You With Me (2022)鈥, Aagje Swinnen, Maastricht University.
鈥楧ocumentary and dementia鈥, Tony Tracy, University of Galway.
4:30-6:15听
Scottish shorts (with drinks and snacks).
Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh) in conversation with Christeen Winford: Short films, documentaries and dementia self-advocacy.
Darkness in the Afternoon听(1999 , dir. Christeen Winford).
Isabella听(2015, dir. Duncan Cowles and Ross Hogg).听
Cost:
Standard ticket: 拢30
Student ticket: 拢20
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If you have any questions regarding this event please email mstewart@qmu.ac.uk