Dementia in Film, Media and Culture
This symposium 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 symposium 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 symposium at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 31st May 2024
9am – 9.30: Registration and coffee.
9.30: Welcome, Michael Stewart.
9.35 – 10.30
Keynote: ‘Dementia and film: Questions of narrative, genre and representation’, Sadie Wearing, London School of Economics.
10.30: Coffee
10.45 – 12.15
Session 1: Ethics
Panel chair: Tony Tracy, University of Galway
‘Ethical reflections in documentary creation: A case study of the Norwegian documentary Stay’, Camilla Vanebo, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.
‘Dementia, end-of-life care, and the doctor-patient relationship in Dust of Diamond Highways (Zoltán Vámos, 2022)’, Eszter Ureczky, University of Debrecen.
‘How useful are dementia-friendly screenings?’, MaoHui Deng, University Manchester.
‘Early-onset Alzheimer’s in twenty-first-century French literature: Ethics and aesthetics’, Avril Tynan, University of Turku.
‘ “Fear of Fanny”: A case study depiction of dementia in a biographical television drama, considering impact, legacy, and responsibility’, Kevin Geddes, Edinburgh Napier University.
12.15 – 1.15: Lunch
1.15 – 2.45
Session 2: Memory
Panel chair: Eszter Ureczky
‘Dementia and memory in visual culture of the contemporary Sinosphere’, Corey Schultz, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
‘The affective intermediality of the analogue in recent documentaries on dementia’, Melinda Blos-Jáni, Sapientia Hungarian University of Cluj-Napoca.
‘Dementia, genre and affect in The Father, Vortex and One Fine Morning’, Michael Stewart, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
‘Father, son and the state of the nation: Representing dementia in Our Friends in the North (1996)’, Jeremy Collins, London Metropolitan University.
‘Cinematic theatricality as “free indirect vision” of dementia in The Father (dir. Florian Zeller, 2018)’, Ilia Ryzhenko, University of Warwick.
2.45: Tea
3pm- 4.30
Session 3: AI and digital culture
Panel chair: Michael Stewart
‘Eyes, vision and dementia: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images and character descriptions of people with dementia’, Emma Putland and Gavin Brookes, Lancaster University.
‘AI-generated images cultivate imagination of reminiscence therapy: Performative conversations for people living with dementia in Taiwan’, 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.
‘The stigmatisation of dementia in Chinese online community: An analysis of online video posts and following comments related to dementia on Xiaohongshu’, Jiahui Qi, University of Leicester.
‘Critical and post-humanist perspectives on dementia documentaries: Human Forever (2023) and Are You With Me (2022)’, Aagje Swinnen, Maastricht University.
‘Documentary and dementia’, Tony Tracy, University of Galway.
4:30-6:15
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 (1999 , dir. Christeen Winford).
Isabella (2015, dir. Duncan Cowles and Ross Hogg).
Cost:
Standard ticket: £30
Student ticket: £20
If you have any questions regarding this event please email mstewart@qmu.ac.uk
