Date: 14 de desembre de 20h a 22h i 15 de desembre de 9.30h a 17.30h

 Location: Cinema Truffaut (14 december) and Sala de Graus and Class A1 at Universitat de Girona (15 december)

Next Thursday and Friday, December 14 and 15, the International Conference will take place at the University of Girona: "Flowing body policies: beyond the taboo of menstruation in cinema and other arts" organized by Daniel Pérez-Pàmies, Àngel Quintana, Alan Salvadó from the GROC group (UDG) and Miriam Sánchez-Manzano from the CINEMA group (UPF).

Programme

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Activity at the Truffaut Cinema in Girona

From 20.00h to 21.30h: Screening of the film Valerie y su Semana de las Maravillas (Valerie a t·den divu (1970) by Jaromil Jires.

From 21.30h to 22.00h: Debate on the film with Imma Merino, film critic and member of the Girona Film Critics and YELLOW Group (Research Group on Cinema Origins)

Friday, December 15, 2023

Activity in the Sala de Graus of the University of Girona.

From 9.30am to 10.10am: Welcome and presentation of the Conference by Angel Quintana and Daniel Pérez (University of Girona).
Beyond Carrie: Panorama of the visibility and invisibility of menstruation in film and other arts.

From 10.10am to 10.50am: Guest lecture by Miren Guilló Arakistain (University of the Basque Country/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea).
Cuerpo, política y afectos: sangre y subversión feminista.

Coffee break

From 11.20h to 12.00h: Lecture by Lluïsa Faxedas and Saray Espinosa (University of Girona).
‘I Bleed, therefore I am’. Art, feminism and menstruation.

From 12 noon to 12.40 pm: Lecture by Carolina Martínez López (ERAM/Universitat de Girona) and Judit Vidiella (ERAM/Universitat de Girona).
The innumerable: Performative practices of menstruation.

From 12.40h to 13.20h: Lecture by Miriam Sánchez-Manzano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Blood into the frame. Fluid and menstrual aesthetics in experimental cinema.

Lunch break

Activity in Aula A1 of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Girona


From 3:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.: Lecture by Alan Salvadó (University of Girona).
Menstrual biopolitics in the context of the North American Educational Films genre.

From 4.10 p.m. to 4.50 p.m.: Guest presentation by Mireia Pérez-Sabadell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Commodity feminism or Brand Activism? New representations of menstruation in the advertising of buffers and compresses.

From 4.50pm to 5.30pm: Guest presentation by Mercè Oliva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Confessions about the rule: menstruation and celebrity culture