Reassessing the Contemporary Exotic: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Contested Form of Cultural Representation

Event date: November 30, 2016

This multi-disciplinary symposium aims to shift the terms of the debate around exoticism beyond dominant scholarly discourses such as (neo-)Orientalism and (neo-)imperialism by bringing it into dialogue with alternative frameworks, notably cultural cosmopolitanism, cultural translation, globalisation and hybridity.

Exoticism in Contemporary Transnational Cinema: Music and Spectacle

Event date: June 16, 2017

This international conference aims to reassess the exotic in contemporary transnational cinema. It asks how the collapsed distances of globalisation and the transnational flows of media and people have affected exoticism, which is no longer exclusively the projection of Orientalist fantasies of the Other from one centre, the West, but which emanates from multiple localities and is multi-directional in perspective.

Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference, Seeing Differently

Event date: October 25, 2019

The Symposium explores the concept of visual alterity from two different angles, considering, on the one hand, the perception of cultural difference in dance, fashion photography and contemporary cinema, and, on the other hand, ways of seeing differently, drawing on experimental cinema, video games, music video and virtual and augmented reality.

The Annual Lecture of the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds

Event date: May 9, 2022

I feel honoured to have been invited to give the Annual Lecture of the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds this year.

Talk at the BFI - Decolonising the Exotic Gaze in Contemporary World Cinema

Event date: May 13, 2024