Program

All panels to be held at the Malet Street Building, University of London, Birkbeck (Tube station “Russell Square”, Room B36)

Thursday, April 29^th 2010

9:00-9:30am: Refreshments and Registration

9:30-10:00am: Opening Comments by Sarah Joshi

10:00-11:00am Panel 1 – Reclaiming National Identity

Klaudija Sabo: Lost Generation – Serbian Youth in Crisis

Corinna Kaiser: ‘Filmmaking is Therapy’. The First Lebanon War in Israeli Film

Panel Moderation: Astrid Matron

11:00-11:30am: Refreshments

11:30-1:00pm: Disaster Film workshop

1:00-2:00pm: Lunch Break

2:00-3:30pm: Panel 2 – Rewriting World War II

Maren Röger: A historical trauma, a recent disaster and the crucial role of a movie: Katyn by Andrzej Wajda

Friederike Klemm: Facing history in French post-war cinema: Identity and identification in Joseph Losey’s Monsieur Klein (1976)

Mika Kioussis: Fairytale Resistance: Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast and the Role of Women in Postwar France

Panel Moderation: Geesa Tuch

3:30-4:00pm: Afternoon tea

4:30-7:00pm: Film Screening at Birkbeck Cinema: Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin, with an introduction by Geesa Tuch

7:30 pm: Conference Reception Dinner, Royal Asiatic Society (Registration Closed)

Friday, April 30^th 2010

9:00-9:30am: Refreshments

9:30-11:00am: Keynote Address by Dr. Laszlo Strausz:

Pictorial tropes and historical memory
Allegory and symbol in recent Romanian and Hungarian films

11:00-11:30am: Refreshments

11:30-1:00pm Panel 3 – Sense of Crisis

Hauke Lehmann: The Choreography of Shock in New Hollywood Cinema

Marlie Christine Centawer: Performance (1970) and the spectacle of excess

Tom Slevin: The Redemption of the Image: Trauma, Repetition, Simulation in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris

Panel Moderation: Caroline Rothauge

1:00-2:00pm: Lunch Break

2:00-3:30pm Panel 4 – The Landscape After the Fact

Daniela Agostinho: Women and Catastrophe in the Aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars

Bill Balaskas: The Day History Stood Still and Other Myths: Investigating the (New) Alien Invasion of Hollywood After 9/11

Andrea Schofield: Simulacra and Spectacle: Imagining Public and Private Trauma in Darfur, Sudan

Panel Moderation: Alexandra Brown

3:30-4:00pm: Afternoon tea

4:00-5:00pm: Final Discussion and Closing Comment