Date: 25 to 27 April

Location: University of Birmingham

Tickets: See the BAFTSS website

Intersecting Identities: Race, Sex, Nation

Intersectionality as a concept was born at the end of the 1980s, and has proven influential ever since as a method for analysing film and media productions as well as in the fields of critical race and disability studies, feminist theory and transnational studies. In the words of Kimberlé Crenshaw in 2017, ‘Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects’.

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The 7th annual BAFTSS conference, to be held at the University of Birmingham on 25, 26 and 27 April 2019, will be concerned with intersecting identities in all their forms (racial, sexual, national and transnational, cultural, political and gendered/generic). It will provide an opportunity to debate how the study of identities has developed since the early decades of screen studies, where it is now, and how the discipline should take it forward.

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Dr Andrew Moor, Reader in English at Manchester Metorpolitan University, is Chair of BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) and has co-organised the Association's annual conference.

Andy chiefly researches all aspects of LGBTQ cinema history (and LGBTQ Studies more widely), and British cinema history. His chief area of interest was originally the work of Powell and Pressburger. Emerging from this study, Andy has an interest in British, transnational and cross-cultural film, with a particular emphasis on the work of exiles. While his interest in British Cinema is still alive and well, Andy's more recent research is into gay (and queer) cinema since Stonewall. He is the author of various chapters and articles looking at gay/queer culture, and he is interested in cross-currents between expressions of exile and of queerness. Andy has an ongoing interest in modes of queer viewing / reception studies, and am currently writing a monograph on the relationship between genre and sexuality in gay inflected cinema since Stonewall.