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I have been asked by John Haynes to forward this conference information:
Beyond the Cold War: New Directions in Soviet, Central and Eastern European
Cinema Studies
University of Essex, UK
May 1st-2nd 2010.
The Centre for Film Studies, the Department of History, and the Department
of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex are
pleased to announce the international conference 'Beyond the Cold War: New
Directions in Soviet, Central and Eastern European Cinema Studies'.
Featuring a range of distinguished speakers, the conference aims to offer
both a survey and a critical, reflective assessment of selected new and
emerging approaches to the study of cinema under the conditions of State
Socialism in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.
This conference offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the current state
of the field: many previous studies of the relationship between cinemas and
State Socialism were underpinned, in one way or another, by mentalities
deeply imbricated in Cold War discourses. Twenty years after that war's end,
the time is right to take stock of the various ways in which the collapse of
Soviet power has facilitated - perhaps even necessitated - a shift in the
approaches of scholars from East and West alike; at the same time,
developments within the field have been increasingly informed and enriched
by concepts and themes drawn from neighbouring disciplines, as well as the
opening up of new sources within the former Soviet Union and Central and
Eastern Europe.
Reflecting explicitly on the usefulness and limitations of these new
methodologies, the conference is aimed at consolidating and furthering this
emerging dialogue between scholars of different areas and disciplines, and
will be of interest to anyone with an interest in examining the variety of
forms and modalities of cinemas under the conditions of State Socialism.
Confirmed speakers and topics:
Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Reappraising Soviet
Wartime Cinema through the Prism of the Holocaust.'
Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester), 'Reassessing the Relationship
of the Ekranizatsiia to the Soviet Literary Canon.'
Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 'Ways of
Seeing: Considerations on Gender and Soviet Cinema.'
Ewa Hanna Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire), 'Squeezing Space,
Releasing Space: Spatial Research in the Study of Eastern European Cinema.'
Dušan Radunović (University of Essex), 'The Incommensurable Distance:
Georgian Cinema as a World Cinema.'
David Sorfa (Liverpool John Moores University), 'The Touch of History:
Haptic-phenomenology and Czech Cinema in the 1960s.'
Anna Toropova (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University
College London), '"If we cannot laugh like that then how can we laugh?": The
"problem" of Stalinist film comedy.'
Yan Li (Northeastern University), 'Forging International Brotherhood: Films
from the Eastern Bloc in China's new socialist cinema, 1949-1978.'
Further details available via the LFTS web pages here:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/lifts/
Registration free, booking essential: for more details, or to reserve a
place, please contact John Haynes: [log in to unmask]
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