CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Jodi Ramer
(Concordia University)

Sara Ross
(University of Hartford)
The Americanization of
Tsuru Aoki


Yiman Wang
(Haverford College)
Who Is Afraid of Anna May
Wong? And What Can Be
Said About a Dragon Lady?

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Robert Read
(McGill University ))

Heidi Kenaga
(University of Memphis)
Tayloring the Female Extra:
The MPPDA and the
Establishment of Central
Casting in the US Studios

Denise McKenna
(New York University)
For Those Who Follow:
Working Women and the
Labor Organization in Early
Hollywood

Mark Garrett Cooper
(Florida State University)
Who Banished the
Universal Woman?

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Erin Manning
(Concordia University)

Jen Cottrill
(Birkbeck College,
University of London)
The Dancing Daughter
Turns Modern Maiden:
Revisiting the Celluloid
Salomés of the 1920s

Winifred Woodhull
(University of California,
San Diego)
Carmen and Early Cinema

Joanne Hershfield
(University of
North Carolina at
Chapel Hill)
Visualizing the Modern
Mexican Woman:
Santa and Cinematic
Nation-Building

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Peter Rist
(Concordia University)

Nevena Dakovic
(FDU/University of Arts/Belgrade)
National Melodrama

Cassandra Hanrahan
(Nova Scotia College
of Art and Design)
Evangeline:
Acadian Heroine
or American Pin-Up?

Greta Garbo Salon
____________

Salon Garbo

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Chika Kinoshita
(University of Chicago)
Actresses in the Transition
to Sound in
Japanese Cinema

Catherine Russell
(Concordia University)
Women and the Discourse
of Everyday Life in
Japanese Cinema
of the early 1930s

Michèle Lagny
(Université Paris III)
Avec ou sans voix :
la femme défaite

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Robin Larsen
(California State
University,
San Bernardino)
Lillian Gish’s Stardom
and Her Lifetime
Performance of Virginity

Rose Theresa
(University of Virginia)
From Masquerade
to Mimicry:
Mary Pickford,
Shirley Temple and the
Vicissitudes of Innocence

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Haidee Wasson
(Concordia University)

Victoria Sturtevant
(University of Oklahoma)
“Harness my Zebras”:
Outrageous Femininity
and the Origins of the
American Religious Epic

Muriel Andrin
(L’Athenée Royale d’Auderghem)
The Ghost in the House:
The Paradoxical Role of
Women in Belgian Silent
Cinema

Marty Norden
(University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
Sangeresque Cinema:
A Comparative Study
of Birth Control and
The Hand that
Rocks the Cradle

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Viva Paci
(Université de Montréal)

Iris Cahn
(Purchase College/SUNY)
Cleopatra on the Hudson:
Film Producer,
Helen Gardner

Annette Kuhn
(Lancaster
University, England)
The Trouble with Elinor Glyn

Georgina Torello
(University of Pennsylvania)
Hysterics, Murderers
and Demoniacs:
Feminity in Italian
Silent Cinema

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Walid el Khachab
(McGill University )

Jennifer Horne
(Bryn Mawr College)
Mothers, Dames, and Dowagers:
The Women of the Better
Films Movement

Christine Ehrick
(University of Louisville)
Beneficent Cinema:
Women, Silent Film
and the State in
Uruguay, 1910s-1920s

Mark Lynn Anderson
Reforming Authority:
The Film Authorship of
Dorothy Davenport Reid

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Donato Totaro
(Concordia University)

Rudolf Kuenzli
(University of Iowa)
Germaine Dulac’s
The Seashell
and the
Clergyman
as a Critique of
Surrealist Masculinity

Tami Williams
(University of California,
Los Angeles)
Dulac’s Role
as a Public Figure

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
(State University
of New Jersey, Rutgers)
"Même morte, elle paraissait
encore dangereuse": Rebel
Feminist in the Shadow
of the Vél d'Hiv

Keynote speaker / Conférencière invitée
_____________

Giuliana Muscio
(University of Padua)
Women Screenwriters in
American Silent Cinema

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CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Rosanna Maule
(Concordia University)

Melissa Gareci
(University of Southern
California)
Women Pioneer Film Editors
Working in the Film Industry

Isabel Arredondo
(Plattsburgh State University
and Concordia University)
Adela Sequeyro:
Acting and Directing
in Mexico in the 1930s

Robert Read
(McGill University)
Dorothy Davenport:
From Fallen Woman to
Exploitation Pioneer

Angela Dalle Vacche
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Early Italian Film Theory
and the Diva

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Alicia Chase
(SUNY / Brockport)

Marsha Orgeron
(North Carolina State University)
“The Golden Key of
Opportunity
Is in Your Hands”:
Fan Magazines
and Consumer Desire

Adam Smith
(St. Johns School of Guam)
Breaking In and
Breaking Out:
Images of
Aspiring Actresses
in American Silent Film

Timothy Connelly
(Syracuse University)
Sounds Like a Man:
American Masculinity
and the
Transition to Sound

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Jennifer Bean
(University of
Washington-Seattle)

Paula Amad
(University of Iowa)
“Objects became
Witnesses”:
Eve Francis
as Witness to the
Emergence of
French Film Criticism

Amelie Hastie
(University of California,
Santa Cruz)
Historical Predictions,
Contemporary Predilections:
Reading Feminist Theory
Close Up

Jill Julius Matthews
(Australian National University)
To Encourage the
Good and
the Beautiful

Jennifer Wild
(University of Iowa)
An Artist’s Hands:
Stella Simon and the Crossroads of
Art and Film in the 1920s

Karine Boulanger
(Université de Montréal)
Le tableau vivant et la
problématisation du
mouvement féminin
dans le cinéma des
premiers temps

Claudia Preschl
(University of Music and
Performing Arts Vienna)
Comic Film Serials around
1910 and the Question of
Genre and Gender
Differences

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Jane Gaines
(Duke University)

Christel Schmidt
(Library of Congress)

Karen Mahar
(Sienna College)

Mark Garrett Cooper
(Florida State University)

Patricia Torres
(University of Guadalajara)

Madeline Matz
(Library of Congress)

Kathryn Kerr Fenn

Marilyn Dooley

Keynote speaker / Conférencière invitée
_____________

Lauren Rabinovitz
(University of Iowa)
Synthesizing
Feminism,
Silent Film,
and History

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* * *

Begoña Soto Vásquez
(Rey Juan Carlos
University, Madrid)
Women and Children:
Family Audiences
at the first Spanish Cinematographs

Germain Lacasse
(Université de Montréal)
Marie de Kerstrat et la lutte
contre les trusts du cinéma

Greta Garbo Salon
____________

Salon Garbo

Tom Gunning
(University of Chicago)
Encounters in Form:
Loie Fuller and
Germaine Dulac

Christine Gledhill
(Staffordshire University)
Reframing Women
in 1920s British Cinema

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Catherine Russell
(Concordia University)

Maddy Cahill
(Westfield State College)
The Sisters of Nellie Bly:
Women Journalists on the
Silent Screen

Anne Morey
(University of Minnesota)
The Female Evangelist
on Film

CHAIR / PRÉS. DE SÉANCE
Chantal Nadeau
(Concordia University)

Hanna Marie Laakso
(Concordia University)
The Performance
of a “Silent Muse”:
An Analysis of
Asta Nielsen’s
Performance in
The Abyss (1910)

Janet Staiger
(University of Texas, Austin)
Fashioning a Personality:
Theda Bara
and the Designs
of her Star Image

Liz Czach
(University of Rochester)
Performativity and Mary
Pickford’s Home Movies

* * *

Jennifer Bean
(University of
Washington-Seattle)
Across the “Great Divide”:
Pearl White’s Adventures in
Popular Modernism

Danielle Aubry
(Université du Québec
à Montréal)
Exploits, crimes et périls des
héroïnes du ciné-roman
(1912-1920)

Keynote speaker / Conférencière invitée
_____________

Kay Armatage
(University of Toronto)
Roughing it in the Bush:
Nell Shipman, Pioneering
and the Academic Marketplace

* * *

Meeting / Réunion
_____________

Women
Film
Pioneers
Project

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