Seminario Hostfilm, Universidad de Valladolid

Cine Europeo y Hospitalidad: Empatía, Hospitalidad, Esperanza

Project member Mónica Fernandez hosts a Hostfilm Seminar under the title “Empatía, Hospitalidad, Esperanza” (“Empathy, Hospitality, Hope”). Project members Jorge Diego (USAL), Patricia San José (UVA) and Paula Barba (USAL) will lead some of the sessions, together with guests speakers from Universidad Complutense (Madrid) and Universidad de Oviedo. The seminar aims to bring together graduate and undergraduate students to explore and discuss issues such as the capacity of cinema to create empathic responses, to represent patterns of hostility/hospitality in the national/personal reception of strangers, as well a to explore the representations of migrants as parasitic invaders, or even as zombies.

Sessions:

February 12, 2020: ““La creación de la Empatía a través de la Cinematografía”. Mónica Fernández (Universidad de Valladolid)

February 26, 2020: “Huéspedes y Parásitos”. Patricia San José Rico, (Universidad de Valladolid)

March 10, 2020: “Acogiendo al Zombie”. Paula Barba Guerrero (Universidad de Salamanca)

March 20, 2020: “¿Está la Hospitalidad Condicionada? Ruben Östlund”. Mónica Fernández (Universidad de Valladolid) , Sofía Martinicorena (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Inés Paris Arranz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

March 26, 2020. “Hospitalidad Privada como Lugar de Esperanza”. Alejandra Moreno Alvarez (Universidad de Oviedo), and Jorge Diego Sánchez, Universidad de Salamanca)