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Language Teaching: Conferences by Dr Judith Rifeser
Invited speaker at Liz Black's (President Elect, Association for Language Learning) German Day in... more Invited speaker at Liz Black's (President Elect, Association for Language Learning) German Day in Bamford, June 2022
In this session, Judith will share lots of practical examples for the use of German films in the ... more In this session, Judith will share lots of practical examples for the use of German films in the KS3-KS5 classroom, using film not as an add-on but as a central element in a Scheme of Learning. Film cannot only provide an engaging, authentic and purposeful context for learning but it can also be used as a vehicle to improve pupils' listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. In addition, film lends itself to nurture what the Council of Europe (2001) suggests could be seen as the "fifth skills". That is, a key skill for living in our diverse, world, showing its potential for supporting intercultural understanding and cross-curricular learning and teaching.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/spr/unt/for/gia/for.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21773955
ALL London Webinar, April 2020
Invited guest speaker 21 April 2020 With special thanks to the contributors to these resources: ... more Invited guest speaker 21 April 2020
With special thanks to the contributors to these resources:
Ms M. Carty
Ms N. Benhalima - Ms M. Waret - Ms L. Pigott
Mr C. Hill at Orleans Park School
With thanks to: my colleagues at Goldsmiths, our partner schools, my PGCE student teachers, the ALL London community and last but not least, Linguascope! You inspire me!
Linguascope: http://blog.linguascope.com/free-online-training-opportunities-for-language-teachers/
Invited guest speaker, ALL London, January 2020 at BFI Southbank
Invited speaker on the use of film and dice for MFL teaching at the ALL London January 2018 at th... more Invited speaker on the use of film and dice for MFL teaching at the ALL London January 2018 at the BFI London.
The teaching of grammar, the use of cultural resources as well as the teaching in the target lang... more The teaching of grammar, the use of cultural resources as well as the teaching in the target language are all key elements of the MFL agenda. But how can we make our teaching ARPS: authentic, relevant, purposeful and stimulating, whilst still ensuring students are getting to grips with complex grammatical structures and rules? In this session, we’ll explore examples of good practice, in particular through film, to teach grammar in context, focussing on developing their grammatical awareness and explicit grammar knowledge in the target language, whilst still allowing students to improve all their skills and learn grammar in a fun and motivating way.
Teach Languages Conference organised by Linguascope.
This presentation showcases practical examples of using film as an authentic context to teach voc... more This presentation showcases practical examples of using film as an authentic context to teach vocabulary, grammar and translation and to practice the different language skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) in the target language. Finally, it exemplifies how authentic resources can be used to facilitate learning beyond the specifications of the MFL curriculum and towards a critical engagement with language and our own and other cultures. In other words, I argue for the importance of film as a platform for an engagement in social issues with the learners to open up a dialogue about our global world, using the target language as a vehicle for discussion.
Presentation at the Language World Conference 2016
Invited Webinar Speaker for the Association for Language Learning London The original material w... more Invited Webinar Speaker for the Association for Language Learning London
The original material was first presented with Marian Carty at the Language World Conference 2015
This session will examine strategies for Assessment for Learning in the Target Language, includin... more This session will examine strategies for Assessment for Learning in the Target Language, including peer and self -assessment, thereby developing learner autonomy. You will able to share your experiences, develop your expertise and consider assessment without levels.
Seminar & Workshop for PGCE Secondary MFL Trainees at Goldsmiths, University of London (invited g... more Seminar & Workshop for PGCE Secondary MFL Trainees at Goldsmiths, University of London (invited guest speaker)
A webinar following the Language World Conference (Association for Language Learning) 2015 with M... more A webinar following the Language World Conference (Association for Language Learning) 2015 with Marian Carty
Presentation and development of ideas with Marian Carty
Publications by Dr Judith Rifeser
In: Piotrowska, A. (forthcoming 2020) (ed.) Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press., 2020
Chapter co-authored with Marian Carty in the book entitled: "Success Stories from Secondary Forei... more Chapter co-authored with Marian Carty in the book entitled: "Success Stories from Secondary Foreign Languages Classrooms: Models from London school partnerships with universities", C. Christie & C. Conlon (eds.), London: Trentham Books, forthcoming 1 November 2016
Film by Dr Judith Rifeser
Selected to be screened at the London Feminist Film Festival 2016. An experimental short that se... more Selected to be screened at the London Feminist Film Festival 2016.
An experimental short that seeks to question our use of the big three words that are supposed to encompass our love for another person by making use of a key idea by the interdisciplinary thinker Luce Irigaray.
Invited speaker at Liz Black's (President Elect, Association for Language Learning) German Day in... more Invited speaker at Liz Black's (President Elect, Association for Language Learning) German Day in Bamford, June 2022
In this session, Judith will share lots of practical examples for the use of German films in the ... more In this session, Judith will share lots of practical examples for the use of German films in the KS3-KS5 classroom, using film not as an add-on but as a central element in a Scheme of Learning. Film cannot only provide an engaging, authentic and purposeful context for learning but it can also be used as a vehicle to improve pupils' listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. In addition, film lends itself to nurture what the Council of Europe (2001) suggests could be seen as the "fifth skills". That is, a key skill for living in our diverse, world, showing its potential for supporting intercultural understanding and cross-curricular learning and teaching.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/spr/unt/for/gia/for.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21773955
ALL London Webinar, April 2020
Invited guest speaker 21 April 2020 With special thanks to the contributors to these resources: ... more Invited guest speaker 21 April 2020
With special thanks to the contributors to these resources:
Ms M. Carty
Ms N. Benhalima - Ms M. Waret - Ms L. Pigott
Mr C. Hill at Orleans Park School
With thanks to: my colleagues at Goldsmiths, our partner schools, my PGCE student teachers, the ALL London community and last but not least, Linguascope! You inspire me!
Linguascope: http://blog.linguascope.com/free-online-training-opportunities-for-language-teachers/
Invited guest speaker, ALL London, January 2020 at BFI Southbank
Invited speaker on the use of film and dice for MFL teaching at the ALL London January 2018 at th... more Invited speaker on the use of film and dice for MFL teaching at the ALL London January 2018 at the BFI London.
The teaching of grammar, the use of cultural resources as well as the teaching in the target lang... more The teaching of grammar, the use of cultural resources as well as the teaching in the target language are all key elements of the MFL agenda. But how can we make our teaching ARPS: authentic, relevant, purposeful and stimulating, whilst still ensuring students are getting to grips with complex grammatical structures and rules? In this session, we’ll explore examples of good practice, in particular through film, to teach grammar in context, focussing on developing their grammatical awareness and explicit grammar knowledge in the target language, whilst still allowing students to improve all their skills and learn grammar in a fun and motivating way.
Teach Languages Conference organised by Linguascope.
This presentation showcases practical examples of using film as an authentic context to teach voc... more This presentation showcases practical examples of using film as an authentic context to teach vocabulary, grammar and translation and to practice the different language skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) in the target language. Finally, it exemplifies how authentic resources can be used to facilitate learning beyond the specifications of the MFL curriculum and towards a critical engagement with language and our own and other cultures. In other words, I argue for the importance of film as a platform for an engagement in social issues with the learners to open up a dialogue about our global world, using the target language as a vehicle for discussion.
Presentation at the Language World Conference 2016
Invited Webinar Speaker for the Association for Language Learning London The original material w... more Invited Webinar Speaker for the Association for Language Learning London
The original material was first presented with Marian Carty at the Language World Conference 2015
This session will examine strategies for Assessment for Learning in the Target Language, includin... more This session will examine strategies for Assessment for Learning in the Target Language, including peer and self -assessment, thereby developing learner autonomy. You will able to share your experiences, develop your expertise and consider assessment without levels.
Seminar & Workshop for PGCE Secondary MFL Trainees at Goldsmiths, University of London (invited g... more Seminar & Workshop for PGCE Secondary MFL Trainees at Goldsmiths, University of London (invited guest speaker)
A webinar following the Language World Conference (Association for Language Learning) 2015 with M... more A webinar following the Language World Conference (Association for Language Learning) 2015 with Marian Carty
Presentation and development of ideas with Marian Carty
In: Piotrowska, A. (forthcoming 2020) (ed.) Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press., 2020
Chapter co-authored with Marian Carty in the book entitled: "Success Stories from Secondary Forei... more Chapter co-authored with Marian Carty in the book entitled: "Success Stories from Secondary Foreign Languages Classrooms: Models from London school partnerships with universities", C. Christie & C. Conlon (eds.), London: Trentham Books, forthcoming 1 November 2016
Selected to be screened at the London Feminist Film Festival 2016. An experimental short that se... more Selected to be screened at the London Feminist Film Festival 2016.
An experimental short that seeks to question our use of the big three words that are supposed to encompass our love for another person by making use of a key idea by the interdisciplinary thinker Luce Irigaray.
"Care|ss" (UK, 2017): This audio-visual piece is conceived as an attempt to perceive Luce Irigara... more "Care|ss" (UK, 2017): This audio-visual piece is conceived as an attempt to perceive Luce Irigaray’s philosophy of the caress. In particular, it alludes to the seminar with Luce Irigaray in Bristol in June of this year and is a reflection on the ideas discussed during the week on the meaning and importance of touch for ourselves as sexuate beings and our relationship to the other. Quotes from her earlier and most recent works are framed in an imagined epistolary exchange to open up an exploration of her ideas on touch and the caress through original experimental audio-visual material and texts. It forms part of the wider practice-as-research part of Judith’s PhD project and is a zero budget short film.
"A Letter Of Love To You" (UK, 2016): Inspired by Luce Irigaray’s philosophical enquiry into love, this is a short meditation on the three words used to express love, to explore the importance, usage and influence of language for our understanding of relationships, gender and power. It forms part of the wider practice-as-research part of Judith’s PhD project and is a zero budget short film.
http://www.feminisminlondon.co.uk/filiart-refuge/
Directors: Lukas Stepanik, Bernadette Wegenstein USA/Austria 2011
Invited talk: CRLL and CRFAC, University of Roehampton
In this workshop we will explore the relationship between touch and visual culture. We will look ... more In this workshop we will explore the relationship between touch and visual culture. We will look at the problem of a culture that focusses on vision and think about the significance of touch via the writing of Luce Irigaray. What is “haptic visuality” (Marks, 2000) and how does it work with or against Irigaray’s thought? Using audio-visual material and texts we will discuss together how touch could be cultivated in art practices, and how Irigaray’s philosophy might be important for thinking visual culture differently.
This paper is the result of being accepted to the week long Luce Irigaray Seminar 2017 held in Br... more This paper is the result of being accepted to the week long Luce Irigaray Seminar 2017 held in Bristol. I discuss how the philosophical work of Luce Irigaray on touch and the caress can be used as a tool for audio-visual practice-as-research in the area of feminist film phenomenology. By combining practice-as-research with writing, I foregrounds the textual, political, ethical and poetical significance of the intertwining between theory and practice.
PANEL 1 - "SELF/IMAGE" In the aftermath of a US election in which a woman's historic candidacy wa... more PANEL 1 - "SELF/IMAGE"
In the aftermath of a US election in which a woman's historic candidacy was at times overshadowed by discussions of her age, appearance and 'likeability', it's more important than ever to fight the mainstream media stereotyping that tries to box us into a particular image of womanhood. The panel will explore how we can make media representations of women more diverse and equal; how women experience their own representation; how images of the self can heal and empower; and how we can counteract the harms of the 'porn culture' that surrounds us.
In this paper I wish to explore Luce Irigaray's notion of feminine subjectivity in relation to to... more In this paper I wish to explore Luce Irigaray's notion of feminine subjectivity in relation to touch through the work of selected women filmmakers. My work shall be comprised of some theoretical considerations and a practical output in the format of found footage and experimental material.
In this paper I wish to explore the capacities of the audio-visual form, both in theory and in pr... more In this paper I wish to explore the capacities of the audio-visual form, both in theory and in practice on the example of an audio-visual essay I have created, to draw out and create moments that foreground the haptic and engage with the work of the interdisciplinary thinker Luce Irigaray and her quest for a feminine subjectivity. I will engage with the contemporary work of a few selected women film-makers to draw out a number of moments that I will argue could, to borrow Laura Marks' words, be working towards and be interpreted as a 'feminist strategy' (Marks, 2000) to bring the (in)visible to the foreground. By drawing on the theoretical framework of a corporeal engagement with the cinematic experience by Vivian Sobchack (1992) and Laura Marks (2000) amongst others, I will focus on the notion of touch and memory through a practical example that seeks to reach out in order to mobilise a way of engaging the notion of the caress that constantly, as Irigaray argues, questions who you are (Irigaray, 1999) to produce and articulate meaning. In recent years the format of the audio-visual essay has gained increasing importance as a form of academic output to engage with, discuss and explore film through its very own format. The key focus for me lies in the interactivity with this medium and its literally haptic engagement with cinematic texts through the various processes of montage involved in the creation of my audio-visual essay. The use of a practical output in the form of an audio-visual essay is used as it offers a space for a more 'poetic' engagement (Grant, 2013) and its possibility to make visible what might not be at first sight or escapes the experience and discourse of theoretical writing. My practical work will be accompanied by a presentation of my key ideas.
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](In this paper I wish to explore the notions of gender and equality through a critical engagement ... more In this paper I wish to explore the notions of gender and equality through a critical engagement with the dialectic of difference established by the contemporary interdisciplinary thinker Luce Irigaray. Her model opens up a space for dialogue that is not only useful to re-think feminine subjectivity but instead proposes a framework for a living of all humans as autonomous subjects. Moving away from an ocularcentric and narrative- driven encounter with cinematic texts, I seek to foreground the haptic quality of film, re-thinking feminine subjectivity and creating Irigarayan moments that draw both outwards and inwards in the attempt to create a story that offers a space for dialogue. By doing so, I hope to create a model that allows for a (re)thinking of difference and equality with and alongside film.
Film-Philosophy, Feb 1, 2017
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Jul 22, 2020
Language and Intercultural Communication, Jan 31, 2022
London Review of Education
In this article we discuss the lived, embodied experience of home-making in relation to identity ... more In this article we discuss the lived, embodied experience of home-making in relation to identity and belonging through the example of a service-learning project conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic in a higher education setting in London, UK. We also explore the notion of belonging-not-belonging as a cultural, material and embodied construct, inspired by critical pedagogy. We draw on posthumanism, new materialism, intercultural studies, (auto-)ethnography and creative practice research as possible lines of flight in deconstructing the dichotomy between home and a ‘foreign’ territory-other-than-home that sits at the core of intercultural discourses. We present this project as a possible alternative discourse to (un)do more traditional considerations of home-making as a much more complex construct; in the encounter with new territories, humans and other-than-human artefacts, objects, machines and landscapes, we argue that home-making is a continuous, never-finished process that move...
Comparative Cinema, 2020
An exploration of feminine desire through the lens of Luce Irigaray’s caress is afforded here thr... more An exploration of feminine desire through the lens of Luce Irigaray’s caress is afforded here through the feminist film-philosophical analysis of Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009) and Women Without Men (Zanan-e Bedun-e Mardan, 2009), by Shirin Neshat. Drawing on key scholarship (Watkins 2000; Bainbridge 2008; Bolton [2011] 2015; Quinlivan [2012] 2014), this article offers a novel contribution through its emphasis on the Irigarayan caress. Despite important limitations and silences in Irigaray’s work (Rifeser 2020; Ingram 2008; Bloodsworth-Lugo 2007; Deutscher 2003; Jones, 1981), here the usefulness of Irigaray’s caress is discussed. An exploration of the narrative, formal and aesthetic strategies of Llosa’s and Neshat’s feature films attune the viewer to the embodied, lived experiences of the main women characters, sothat we can envision the Irigarayan caress and the lived experience of feminine desire as woman with oneself, as well as the desire for the ot...
Edinburgh University Press, Jul 25, 2020
Language and Intercultural Communication
is afforded here through the feminist film-philosophical analysis of Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of ... more is afforded here through the feminist film-philosophical analysis of Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009) and Women Without Men (Zanan-e Bedun-e Mardan, 2009), by Shirin Neshat. Drawing on key scholarship (Watkins 2000; Bainbridge 2008; Bolton [2011] 2015; Quinlivan [2012] 2014), this article offers a novel contribution through its emphasis on the Irigarayan caress. Despite important limitations and silences in Irigaray’s work (Rifeser 2020; Ingram 2008; Bloodsworth-Lugo 2007; Deutscher 2003; Jones, 1981), here the usefulness of Irigaray’s caress is discussed. An exploration of the narrative, formal and aesthetic strategies of Llosa’s and Neshat’s feature films attune the viewer to the embodied, lived experiences of the main women characters, so that we can envision the Irigarayan caress and the lived experience of feminine desire as woman with oneself, as well as the desire for the other.