Little Red Riding Hood - Traditions and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Film

Open Seminar October 1, 2010

Seminar Room 135, Faculty of Psychology , University of Bergen

Little Red Riding Hood has traveled across time and across the globe, making her appearance in numerous children's and adult's stories, novels, films, art productions, TV commercials, ads, comic strips, and porn. Alternatively innocent, disobedient or cunning, she has been gobbled up by the wicked wolf, rescued by various well-meaning woodsmen, fathers, grandmothers, or fairies, sometimes even sorting things out all by her self. Through explorations of literature, art and film, this seminar addresses what the enduring, transnational fascination with Little Red Riding Hood tells us about culture, the making of childhood, sexuality and gender, and the relationship between fiction and wider cultural concerns.

Program

9.45-10.00
Welcome and coffee,
by Nina Goga, Faculty of Education, Bergen University College 

10.00-11.00
Sandra Beckett, Brock University St. Catharines, Canada
"Recasting Red Riding Hood: Transformations of a Global Fairy Tale Icon"

11.00-11.15 Break

11.15-12.00  
Mariken Steen,
Art Director and illustrator
"Little Red Riding Hood or Lady in Red"

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.45  
Kari Jegerstedt, Centre for Women's and Gender Research, UiB
"The Big Bad (Were)Wolf and the Biopolitics of Female Sexuality",

13.45-14.00 Coffee break

14.00-14.20
Nina Goga, Faculty of Education, Bergen University College
”Little Red Riding Hood goes to Hollywood”

14.20-15.45
Film screening: Hoodwincked (Sannheten om Rødhette)

The seminar is arranged by Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), UiB, and Faculty of Education, Bergen University College.