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Reinventing Polish Cinema: History - Ideology - Politics University of Lodz, Poland, 23-25 October 2006 MONDAY 23 X 2006 PLENARY SESSIONS: Centrum Konferencyjne / Conference Centre ul. Kopcinskiego 16/18 All plenary sessions on the 23rd and 24th October will be held in the Conference Centre, where simultaneus translations could be provided. 1st PLENARY SESSION 12.00-13.00 Chair: Paul Coates opening of the conference Karl Skutski DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Krzysztof Kieslowski: Prophet of Secular Humanism in the New Europe Costica Bradatan TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY The “terror of history” in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance Discussion 2nd PLENARY SESSION 13.15 – 14.15 Chair: Piotr Sitarski Izabela Kalinowska STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY Lewdness, Nudity, and Eroticism: the 1980s’ in the People’s Republic of Poland Michael Goddard UNIWERSYTET ŁÓDZKI Figure of Post-Communist Desire? The Becoming-Popular of Polish Cinema from the 1980’s and the Performance of Katarzyna Figura Discussion 14.15 – 15.15 LUNCH III SESJA PLENARNA / 3rd PLENARY SESSION 15.15 – 16.15 Chair: Tomasz Klys Sheila Skaff UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Skeptics: Early Cinema under the Polish Partitions, 1896-1903 Mariusz Guzek Caught in the Tzar’s clutches. Anti-russian Movies of the Sfinks Company in Times of the World War I Discussion 4th PLENARY SESSION 16.30 – 18.00 Chair: Marek Haltof Janina Falkowska UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO Construction/De-construction of the Past in the Writings and Films by Andrzej Wajda Tadeusz Lubelski UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLOŃSKI The Spring to Come – a Story of Andrzej Wajda’s Unmade Project Miroslaw Przylipiak POMORSKA AKADEMIA PEDAGOGICZNA W SŁUPSKU The Deconstruction of Documentary in Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble and Man of Iron Discussion COFFEE BREAK 5th PLENARY SESSION 18.15 – 19.45 Chair: Miroslaw Przylipiak Adam Wyzynski FILMOTEKA NARODOWA The Cinematic Testimonies of the Birth of „Solidarity” and Their Difficult Way to the Screen Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska UNIWERSYTET LODZKI Between Elegy and Comedy. The Representation of Martial State in Polish Cinema Konrad Klejsa UNIWERSYTET LODZKI The Parallax Memory. Notes on Solidarity, Solidarity…. Discussion 20.15 meeting in the Museum of Cinematography with a screening of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s short films 24 X 2006 TUESDAY 6th PLENARY SESSION 9.00 – 10.00 Chair: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski Sarah Bowen FARNHAM UNIVERSITY OF THE CREATIVE ARTS Transitional Space. Landscape in the Films of Jerzy Kucia Andrzej Pitrus UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI Natalia LL – Beyond Conceptualism Discussion 7th PLENARY SESSION 10.15 – 11.15 Chair: Andrzej Pitrus Alison Frank UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD The Surrealist Object in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion Iwona Guść UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN Groteska w filmie polskim: reinterpretacje Discussion COFFEE BREAK 8th PLENARY SESSION 11.30 – 12.30 Chair: Tadeusz Lubelski Don Fredericksen CORNELL UNIVERSITY Zanussi's Illumination and the Giving of Good and Bad Answers to Fundamental Questions Tomasz Klys UNIWERSYTET ŁÓDZKI Reinterpreting Illumination Discussion 12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH 9th PLENARY SESSION 13.30 – 15.00 Chair: Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska Alicja Helman UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI The Poetics of Polish Film School – Inspirations and Correspondences Margarete Wach KUNSTHOCHSCHULE FÜR MEDIEN, KÖLN Happening in the Tresor. Polish Cinema and Cinematic Strategies of Subversion in Eastern Europe Seen Against their Reception in the West Anil Zankar FILM AND TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF INDIA Fiction as Imaginative Treatment of History (from the Distant Observer) Dyskusja/Discussion X SESJA PLENARNA / 10th PLENARY SESSION 15.15 –16.45 Chair: Don Fredericksen Chris Caes UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Is Polish Cinema Democratic? Historical Catastrophe and the Illiberal Imagination in the International Cinema of Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Zuławski, and Agnieszka Holland Ewa Mazierska UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE Cinema of Un-tourism? The Reception of Polish Postcommunist Cinema in Great Britain Paul Coates UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO Ideologies of Sacred and Profane: “Europe” and “The Country” and “The City” in Polish Cinema since 1989 Discussion *** Panel sessions: Pałac Biedermanna / Biedermann Palace ul. Franciszkańska 1/5 All panel sessions will be held at the Biedermann Palace; unfortunately, there will be no simultaneus translations provided. For all our international guests we can organise a short sightseeing tour of the city; after that we would like to invite all our guests for a reception at the Biedermann Palace. 18. 00 – 19.45 1st PANEL SESSION Chair: Jolanta Lemann-Zajicek Jakub Zajdel UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI The Family Contribution into the History of Polish Cinema Natasza Korczarowska-Różycka UNIWERSYTET LODZKI The Childhood’s Paradise (un)Lost. The Child – the Politics – the Testimony Piotr Zwierzchowski UNIWERSYTET KAZIMIERZA WIELKIEGO W BYDGOSZCZY Bad Luck as the Film of (the End of) Polish September Elzbieta Durys UNIWERSYTET LODZKI Introduction into the Man’s World: Janusz Majewski’s Hotel Pacific Discussion 2nd PANEL SESSION Chair: Alicja Helman Alina Madej UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI Henryk Kluba’s Five and Half of Pale Joe: the Poetics of Degraded Ideology Paulina Kwiatkowska UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI The Political and Aesthetical Space in Kazimierz Kutz’s Nobody’s Calling Jan Rek UNIWERSYTET LODZKI Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Pharaoh, or: the Big Sleep of People’s Republic of Poland Małgorzata Jakubowska UNIWERSYTET LODZKI Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Railway Station times three Discussion 20.00 reception at the Biedermann Palace 25 X 2006 WEDNESDAY 9.15 – 11.00 3rd PANEL SESSION Chair: Alina Madej Inga Lesniewska UNIWERSYTET WROCŁAWSKI The Influence of State Politics on the Documentary about “Regained Territories”. A Case Study Joanna Preizner UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLOŃSKI Reading between Frames – the Stalinist People’s Republic of Poland in the Short Movies of Lodz Film School Students 1949-1954 Ewa Gębicka UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI Film Co-op’s in the Context of Cultural Politics of Gomulka’s Government 1960-1968 Jolanta Lemann-Zajićek PANSTWOWA WYŻSZA SZKOŁA FILMOWA, TELEWIZYJNA I TEATRALNA IM. L. SCHILLERA The Events and Consequences of March 1968 in Lodz Film School Discussion COFFEE BREAK 4th PANEL SESSION Chair: Piotr Zwierzchowski Andrzej Kawecki FILMOTEKA NARODOWA The Reception of the Polish Cinema 1914-1939 in the People’s Republic of Poland, or: Historians versus Roommaids Grażyna Stachowna UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI Romancing the Socialism, or: Bitter-Sweet Melodrama in People’s Republic of Poland Mariola Marczak UNIWERSYTET WARMINSKO-MAZURSKI W OLSZTYNIE Passionate Zanussi Artur Majer Layers of the Text in Juliusz Machulski’s Sexmission Discussion 11.15 – 12.45 5th PANEL SESSION Chair: Andrzej Gwozdz Kamila Zyto UNIWERSYTET ŁÓDZKI Dangerous Liasons. The History of Polish-Soviet Relationship in the Cinema of Robert Glinski Alicja Kisielewska UNIWERSYTET W BIAŁYMSTOKU Against the Myths. The Representation of Eastern Borderlands in Izabella Cywinska’s mini series God’s Lining Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska UNIWERSYTET LODZKI Paths of Memory: Wojciech Marczewski’s Weiser and Robert Glinski’s The Call of the Toad Discussion 6th PANEL SESSION Chair: Grażyna Stachowna Małgorzata Radkiewicz UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI Twists and Turns. Polish Debutes of the 90s. Marcin Adamczak UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIU The Unrepresented / Unconstructed Reality in Polish Cinema after 1989 Katarzyna Citko UNIWERSYTET W BIALYMSTOKU The Representation od Polish Countryside in the Cinema of Jan Jakub Kolski – the People’s Republic of Poland’s Look or Innovative View? Discussion 13.00 – 13.30 PLENARY SESSION AND CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE Andrzej Gwozdzź UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI DVD as a Para-Medium of the Cinema, or: History of the Cinema Rewritten (the Films of Kazimierz Kutz in an Educational Collection of “Silesia-Film”) Discussion LUNCH