Mr Luis Freijo
University Teacher Languages, Cultures and Film
Professional Activities
Selected Professional Activities
Conference Role
- World Cinema between the rock of the unknowable and the hard place of the as yet unknown at Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Special Interest Group: Transnational Cinemas, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Online, 2021 - present) (Conference Role)
- World Cinema Summit: The Longitude and Latitude of World Cinema (Birmingham, 2020) (Conference Role)
- 3rd Annual B-Film PGR Symposium (Birmingham, 2020 - present) (Conference Role)
- 14th University of Birmingham Research Poster Conference (Birmingham, 2019) (Conference Role)
- 2nd Annual B-Film PGR Symposium (Birmingham, 2019 - present) (Conference Role)
External Administrative or Committee Role
- Research Assistant (University of Birmingham, 2018 - 2020) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
Conference Roles
- Conversation on Film Genre at 2nd University of Birmingham-University of Zaragoza Colloquium (Birmingham and Zaragoza, 2022)
- ”Where the Centuries Don’t Follow One Another”: Ritualising the Nation in Global Westerns at 5th Annual B-Film PGR Symposium (Birmingham, 2022)
- Borders Outside, Borders Within: European Citizenship and Neocolonialism in Valeska Grisebach’s Western at 1st University of Birmingham-University of Zaragoza Colloquium (Birmingham and Zaragoza (Online), 2021)
- World Cinema between the rock of the unknowable and the hard place of the as yet unknown at Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Special Interest Group: Transnational Cinemas, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Online, 2021 - present)
- ”Let the Land Decide”: The World Cinema Western and the Language of Colonialism in Five Fingers for Marseilles at B-Film PGR Seminars 2021-2022 (Birmingham, 2021)
- ”I Am Also a We”: Sense8’s Aspiration to a Cosmopolitan Frontier at 2021 SERCIA Conference (Zaragoza, Spain, 2021)
- De-Westernising the Western: Genre Under Erasure as a Methodology of Resistance in Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014) at 2021 Screen Studies Conference (Glasgow, 2021)
- The Nation in Transit: The Reconfiguration of Modern Spain Through Migration in Luz de domingo (José Luis Garci, 2007) at 2021 NECS Conference (Palermo, 2021)
- ”Where the Centuries Don’t Follow One Another”: Ritualising the Nation in Global Westerns at M4C Research Festival 2021 (Online, 2021)
- Cosmopolitanism at the Urban Frontier: Discussing a Glocal Sense8 at 4th Annual B-Film PGR Symposium (Birmingham, 2021)
- Unearthing the Colonial Ghosts of the Patagonian Western at B-Film PGR Seminars 2020-2021 (Online, 2021)
- De-Westernising the Western: A Trailer at M4C Research Festival 2020 (Online, 2020)
- World Cinema Summit: The Longitude and Latitude of World Cinema (Birmingham, 2020)
- 3rd Annual B-Film PGR Symposium (Birmingham, 2020 - present)
- 14th University of Birmingham Research Poster Conference (Birmingham, 2019)
- Héroes cansados, familias extrañas: dibujando la masculinidad post-industrial en Old Man Logan at 2nd International Congress of Interdisciplinary Studies about Comics (Zaragoza, Spain, 2019)
- 2nd Annual B-Film PGR Symposium (Birmingham, 2019 - present)
- A Gun of One´s Own. Gender Representation in Contemporary Westerns at 12th University of Birmingham Research Poster Conference (Birmingham, 2018)
- Slowness, Art Cinema, and Poetry in Contemporary Westerns. Toward a Definition of Slow Westerns at 1st Annual B-Film PGR Symposium (Birmingham, 2018)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
- Research Assistant (University of Birmingham, 2018 - 2020)