SCMS conference 26-29 March 2026 – Chicago
« Territories of Freedom »: Sounding Utopia, Rage and Grief in Contemporary Women’s Cinema.
Organised by Kathleen McHugh (UCLA) & David Roche (UMPV)
Panelists:
Lisa Coulthard (The British University of Columbia): Music for Angry Women: Music, Female Rage, and Contemporary Anti-Patriarchy Cinema
Kathleen McHugh (University of California Los Angeles): Sound Forward: Conscripting Wagner to a Feminist Sublime
David Roche (University Montpellier Paul Valéry): (Re)connecting with the World through Music: the Use of Pre-existing Music in the Films of Andrea Arnold
Cristelle Maury (University Toulouse Jean Jaurès): Feminist Soundscapes in You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2017)
No Spotlights: Women, Peripheral Occupations, and the American Film Industry (1895-1950)
Organised by Claire Demoulin (UMPV) & Claire Dutriaux (Sorbonne Univeristé)
Panelists:
Claire Dutriaux (Sorbonne University) : “The One Successful Woman Press Agent:” The Mabel Condon Exchange and Women as Power Brokers in Early Hollywood.
Claire Demoulin (University Montpellier Paul Valéry) : The Salonnière behind Hollywood Socialization and Film Collaborations
Carolyn Jacobs (Central Connecticut State University) : “The One Successful Woman Press Agent:”The Mabel Condon Exchange and Women as Power Brokers in Early Hollywood
Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen (Sarah Lawrence College): A Trick of the Light: Flickers of Feminized Mediating Labor at the Origins of US Film