“英华人文系列讲座”第六十四讲
题目：“Global Film Cultures”& “Identity, Globalisation and Communication”
主讲人：James Chapman教授、Rabah Aissaoui博士
主持人：万小磊博士
时间：2015年5月11日（周一）14:40—15:55
地点：松江校区5教楼121教室
主办单位：英语学院
讲座嘉宾简介：
1.Prof. James Chapman，Head ofDepartment of History of Art And Film，University ofLeicester
James Chapman took his BA (History) and MA(Film Studies) at the University of East Anglia and then undertook his doctoralresearch at Lancaster University, writing his PhD thesis on the role ofofficial film propaganda in Britain during the Second World War. He joined theUniversity of Leicester as its founding Professor of Film Studies in January2006. He is a Council member of the International Association for Media andHistory (IAMHIST) and in 2010 became editor of the Historical Journal of Film,Radio and Television. When Professor Chapman is not lecturing his students onwhy we should take James Bond seriously or decoding the semiotics of DianaRigg, he can usually be found following Test Match Special.
Professor Chapman’s research focuses onBritish popular culture, especially cinema and television in their historicalcontexts. He is interested in the role of the media as propaganda, the representationof war and history, and the cultural politics of popular fictions – including,but not limited to, Dick Barton, Dan Dare, James Bond, The Avengers and DoctorWho. He has recently completed the first book to offer a cultural history ofBritish comics from their origin to the present, and is currently researchingbooks on Science Fiction Cinema and Contemporary British Television Drama. Heis also co-investigator on a three-year Arts and Humanities Research Councilproject ‘Spaces of Television’ in association with the University of Readingand the University of Glamorgan.
2.Dr Rabah Aissaoui，Head ofSchool Of Law，University of Leicester
Dr Aissaoui’s research interests focus onimmigration and racism in colonial and postcolonial France. He is particularlyinterested in the study of discourses on identity and exile, in the diasporicconstruction of nationalism and more specifically in expressions of ethnic,national and cultural belonging amongst Maghrebi migrants in France. He alsoresearches French colonial history and the relationship between history, memoryand ethnic identity among Maghrebis. Other areas of interest includeFranco-Algerian relations, the historical development of Algeria. He conducteda joint research funded by the British Academy on the discursive constructionsof difference and the representation of Turkey in the European Press withProfessor Ralph Negrine (University of Sheffield), Dr Beybin Kejanlioglu(University of Ankara) and Professor Stylianos Papathanassopoulos (Universityof Athens).
He was a member of the Advisory Committeeof a national exhibition project led by Génériques (Paris). This nationalexhibition entitled ‘Générations: un siècle d’histoire culturelle desMaghrébins en France’ was presented in Lyon, Paris (Cité Nationale del’Histoire de l’Immigration), Caen and Toulon from 2009 to 2014.
