Information about the Symposium 2024 will be online shortly. You can download this year’s flyer already: Symposium 2024

FRIDAY, 28/04

PANELS

10:00 – 11:30 1 - [decolonize] (Post-)Soviet cinema through a “decolonial lens” – theoretical framework and personal introspection Intro: Heleen Gerritsen and Barbara

Wurm. Keynote: Nancy Condee (USA)

11:30 – 13:00 2 - [reassessments] Re-assessing the Soviet legacy: canon, censorship, heritage and the archive(s). Panelists: Dita Rietuma (Latvia), Melikset Karapetyan (Armenia), Ivan Kozlenko (Ukraine)

14:00 – 15:00 3 - [Belarus] Belarus – from the rise and fall of ‘Listapad’ to the establishment of the Independent Belarusian Film Academy. Panelists: Igor Soukmanov & Aliaksey Paluyan,  Andrey Kutsila (Belarus)

 

SATURDAY, 29/04

PANELS

10:00 – 11:30 4 - [Ukraine] Ukrainian film industry – the past, the present and an uncertain future.  Panelists: Daria Badior, Ivan Kozlenko, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Yuliia Kovalenko (Ukraine)

11:30 – 12:30 5 - [non-fiction] Modalities of the real: the transformation years and non-fiction cinema. Video talks with: Serhiy Bukovsky (Ukraine), Yuri Khashchevatsky (Belarus), Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych (Ukraine), Dāvis Sīmanis (Latvia), Presenters: Oksana Sarkisova (Budapest/Vienna) and Barbara Wurm

13:00 – 14:30 6 - [Central Asia] Post-, neo-, and de-colonial Central Asia: human rights activism and collective filmmaking. Panelists: Aïda Adilbek (Kazakhstan), Michael Borodin (Uzbekistan), Gulzat Egemberdieva (Kyrgystan), Anisa Sabiri (Tajikistan)

SUNDAY, 30/04

PANELS AND DISCUSSIONS

10:00 – 11:00 7 - [war] Old and new wars – (post)soviet (anti)imperialism.

Panelists: Giedrius Tamoševičius (Lithuania), Nana Janelidze (Georgia)

11:30 – 13.00 8 - [soft power] De/colonization. The myth of “russian culture” Panelists: Vladlena Sandu (Russia), Julia Shaginurova (Germany/Uzbekistan)

13.00 – 13.30 9 - [perspectives] Emancipatory and trans-national perspectives. Closing panel