Reclaiming the Audiovisual for Intellectual History Interdisciplinary Workshop

Pe 7 mai, UNATC I. L. Caragiale găzduiește un workshop interdisciplinar dedicat valorificării surselor audiovizuale în cercetarea istorică. Evenimentul este organizat de departamentul Scenaristică: Filmologie în parteneriat cu Centrul Ceh și Institutul Liszt București.

Program:

Sava Studio, UNATC

May 7, 2025 

10:30 Workshop Opening

10:40-11:15 Christian Ferencz-Flatz (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): From the Videograms of a Revolution to an Operative Model: Pitch for a Research Project

11:15-11:50 Adrian Grama (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Surplus to Profit. Using Ads to Reconstruct the Making of the Soft Drinks Market in Romania (1960s-2000s)”

11:50-12:25 László Strausz (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Recovering the BM Collection: Notes on a Difficult Find

12:25-13:00 Lucie Česálková (Charles University, Prague): From Cinematic Lure to Cinematic Source. On Film Archives, Film-History, Film-Theory, and History

13:00-15:00 Lunch Break

15:00-15:35 Jan Mervart (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Fiction Film as a Historical Source for East-Central European History After WW2

15:35-16:10 Adam Takács (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Lifes and Worlds: Historicity and Materiality in Photographic Representations

16:10-16:45 Liri Chapelan (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Advertising as a Source for a History of the Senses 

16:45-17:20 Ana Szel (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Mining the Audiovisual Divide for Historic Research

Socialist and Postsocialist Useful Film Conference

Pe 5 și 6 mai, UNATC găzduiește o nouă ediție a conferinței de film utilitar dedicată spațiului socialist și postsocialist. Evenimentul este organizat de departamentul Scenaristică: Filmologie în parteneriat cu Centrul Ceh și Centrul Cultural Maghiar.

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Program:

5-6 May, Bucharest 

Sava Studio, UNATC

Day 1: May 5, 2025

10:00 Conference Opening

10:15-12:30 Panel 1:  Politics 

10:15-11:00 Irina Tcherneva (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris): Useful Cinema During ‘Late Stalinism’ in the Soviet Union (1944-1953): A Mirror of Repressions

11:00-11:45 Pedro Doreste Rodriguez (Michigan State University): “El gusano de izquierda”: From Reform to Revolution in the Cinema of Oscar Torres.

11:45-12:30 Ling Zhang (Leiden University): Newsreels as Useful Films in Socialist China: Cinema and “People’s Diplomacy”

12:30-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:45 Panel 2: Education

14:30-15:15 Victoria Elizarova (Goethe University, Frankfurt a. Main): Films for Settlers: Agronomic Education and Railways in the Russian Empire and the Early USSR 

15:15-16:00 Andrei Voineag (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Didactic Children’s Animation in Socialist Romania: Human Labour as a Natural Process or When Cocoa Beans Worked Themselves

16:00-16:45 Kaiyi Li (Leibniz Institut für Bildungsmedien, Braunschweig): Shaping the Socialist Ideal: Constructing the Film Character Gu Sanjuan as a Model Primary School Teacher in 1960s China

16:45-17:15 Coffee Break

17:15-18:45 Panel 3: Logistics

17:15-18:00 Lucie Česálková (Charles University, Prague): Raws, Heroes, and Operations. Reading Socialist Industrial Film Environmentally

18:00-18:45 László Strausz (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): The Scientific-Technological Rhetoric and the Deployment of Data in the BM Studio’s Output

Day 2: May 6, 2025

11:00-13:15 Panel 3: Bodies 

11:00-11:45 Iulia Necșulescu (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Gender as Labor: Performing Femininity in Romanian Socialist Useful Films

11:45-12:30 Zane Balčus (Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga): On Sexual Health and Healthy Sexuality: Insights from Commissioned Films Produced at Riga Film Studio

12:30-13:15 Eszter M. Polónyi (Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Imaging the Body for Medical Research: The Paul Heim Hospital Films at the Hungarian National Film Archives

13:15-15:15 Lunch Break

15:15-17:30 Panel 4:  Advertising

15:11-16:00 Ana Szel (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Socialist Advertising in Theory and Practice

16:00-16:45 Ralf Forster (Film University Babelsberg, Potsdam): Freezing for Europe? Commercials for Refrigerators Made in the GDR

16:45-17:30 Christian Ferencz-Flatz (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): The First Postsocialist Romanian Advertisements and What Came Before Them

17:30 Conference Closing

18:00-19:00 Workgroup Business Meeting