Organisers

Alice Pember is a PhD researcher in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research examines the politics of the dancing girl in contemporary cinema. She has published articles and film reviews in Arty and Garageland magazines and co-edits the Oxford Queer Studies Network blogs. She has presented her research BAFTSS, Film-Philosophy and SCMS.

You can find her on twitter @alpember and on academia.edu

Read Alice’s research profile on the Queen Mary website here.

Benjamin Dalton is a PhD candidate in French at King’s College London. His thesis, which is entitled ‘Narrating Plasticity in Contemporary French Thought, Literature and Film’, brings the philosophy of Catherine Malabou into dialogue with contemporary writers and filmmakers. Benjamin argues broadly that current French thought and culture are bearing witness to the plasticity and transformability of organic life in ways which activate and extend Malabou’s thought. Benjamin’s project also seeks to engage across the Medical Humanities, and he is the leader of a project entitled ‘Narrating Plasticity: Stories of Transformation across the Plastic Arts and Neuroscience’, which brings a team of neuroscientists from the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute with the plastic artist Amanda Doidge. Benjamin has published on horror film and has forthcoming publications on plasticity in the work of Marie Darrieussecq and Alain Guiraudie, as well as an interview with Catherine Malabou.

Find Benjamin on twitter @BenBGDalton

And on academia.edu

And read Benjamin’s research bio here on the King’s College London website.

Here is a horrifically blurry photo of Benjamin (left) and Alice (right) at a conference planning meeting at Halloween (note the pumpkins).