Research

In my academic production, I have been exploring the meaning of media representations, as well as the concepts of identity and interculturality through the lens of films, festivals and African cinemas.

At the same time, my journalism training and my professional projects have also informed my research on international human development, cultural industries, political thought and social change. 

Publications

• Olivieri, Federico (2017). “La Interculturalidad a través de los Cines de África: textos, pretextos y contextos para una ciudadanía global”. International Journal of Political Thought (Vol. 11). 
• Olivieri, Federico (2016). “Cine y África: imágenes para la interculturalidad”. Libro de actas del III Congreso internacional de Ética de la Comunicación: desafíos éticos de la comunicación en la era digital. Dyckinson, Ed.
• Olivieri, Federico (2015). Javier Serrano Avilés (ed.). La enseñanza del español en África Subsahariana. Embajada de España en Kenia, AECID, Instituto Cervantes, Casa África, Los Libros de la Catarata, Madrid, 2014. [Book Review]. Philologia Hispalensis, 29 (1-2), 106-110.
• Olivieri, Federico and Joshua M. Wong (2015). “The Slum Film Festival in Nairobi: Exploring cinematic representations from the urban margins”. Journal of African Cinemas (Vol. 7, issue 2): 153 – 168.
• Dovey, Lindiwe and Federico Olivieri (2015). “Festivals and the Politics of Space and Mobility: The Tarifa/Cordoba African Film Festival (FCAT) as Nomadic Heterotopia”. Screen, Oxford Journals, (Spring 2015) 56 (1): 142-148.
• Dovey, Lindiwe, Joshua McNamara and Federico Olivieri (2013). “From, by, for – Nairobi’s Slum Film Festival, film festival studies, and the practices of development”. Jump Cut, 55 (Online Peer-reviewed Journal).
• Olivieri, Federico (2011). “Tarifa African Film Festival and the re-representation of Africa”. Quaderns de Cine. N. 7. ISSN 1888-4571, pp. 79-91.

Conferences and Guest Lectures

• “El Slum Film Festival de Nairobi, Kenia: cine digital desde los márgenes urbanos”. Conference and presentation of short films at Cinemateca de la Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia): 15^th March 2019
• “Cines de África: textos, pretextos y contextos para la interculturalidad”. Seminar and guest lecture for the onthly doctoral group class on Colombian Narratives at the Facultad de Humanidades, Universided del Valle (Cali, Colombia): 27^th March 2019
• “Reflecting on (the Slum) Film Festivals: curating con-texts”. Guest lecture at Brandeis University, course ‘Documenting the Immigrant Experience’: 4 April 2017. 
• “Muestras y festivales de cine (africano): islas para el encuentro y el diálogo” [(African) Film Showcases and Festivals: islands for dialogue and encounters]. Round-table presentation at the 1^st African Film Showcase of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (Canary Islands, Spain): 27 November 2015.
• “Cine y nuevas identidades africanas” [Cinema and new African identities]. Summer School of University Complutense in El Escorial (Madrid, Spain): 6 July 2015. 
• “III Jornadas sobre Cine y Africa” [Content coordinator and main speaker at the “Third Conference on Cinema and Africa”], School of Communication, University of Seville, Seville (Spain): 27 – 28 May 2015.
• “Cine africano: textos y pretextos para la interculturalidad”. Paper presented at the III International Conference on Media Ethics, School of Communication, University of Seville, Seville (Spain): 24-26 March 2015.
• “La Representación de la mujer y el Cine africano”. Conference in the 2nd International Summer School: ‘Mujeres Malditas, Malditas Mujeres’ of the University of Seville and Huelva: 11th July 2014, Alájar (Huelva).
• “II Jornadas sobre Cine y Africa: Diversidad Cultural, Diálogo y Desarrollo” [Main speaker at the “2^ndConference on Cinema and Africa: Cultural diversity, dialogue and development”], School of Communication, University of Seville, Seville (Spain): 21 and 22 May 2014.
• “Connecting (Re)Presentations, Women media voices and African cinema: Exploring contemporary East African gender identities through filmmaking and networked dialogue”. Paper presented with Marian del Moral at the II International Conference on Gender and Communication, University of Seville, Seville (Spain): 1-3 April 2014.
• “Jornadas sobre Cine y Africa” [Organizer and main speaker at the “First Conference on Cinema and Africa”], School of Communication, University of Seville, Seville (Spain): 29 – 31 October 2013.
• “Digital cinema in Kenya and new urban identities: empowering the global urban ‘others’”. International Conference on MediaEthics. University of Seville, Seville (Spain): 5 April 2013.
• “Digital cinema and urban identities in Nairobi: the Slum Film Festival”. Paper first presented at CIEA8 (8º African Studies Iberian Congress): Culture, Media and African Cinema. Madrid (Spain): 14-16 June 2012
• “The Local and the Global: Dialectical Tensions in Contemporary Cultures and Identities”. Guest lectures at United States International University of Nairobi, Nairobi (Kenya): 18 July 2011 and 8 February 2012
• “Postcolonialism through film. Introduction to the history and aspects of African cinema”. Seminars at the United States International University of Nairobi, Nairobi (Kenya): 8-9 March 2011 and 22-23 March 2012
• “Within their Vision: The Tarifa African Film Festival (FCAT) as Heterotopia”. Co-authored paper presentation with Dr. Lindiwe Dovey (SOAS) presented at NECS (Network of European Cinema Scholars), Istanbul (Turkey): 21 June 2010
• “Encuentros en el Estrecho [Encounters on the Strait]: Images of Africa at Tarifa’s film festival”. Hispanic Research Centre Seminars. Roehampton University, London (UK): 2 Feb. 2010
•  “The immigrant: images and stereotypes about ‘the other’ on mainstream media”. Conference paper presented at 3^rd International Conference on Pedagogy: “Intercultural Schools for a Diverse Society”. Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba (Spain): 9 May 2009

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Academia.edu/FedericoOlivieri

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