European Career School in Poznań
and
Paderewski Foundation in Wielkopolska
realised
an international research conference:
The Past in Central and East European Cinema after 1989
Poznań, 8-10th Nov 2007
The Hungarian film director Marta Mészáros was our special guest. Film reseearches from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Hungary, Serbia and Germany analysied film culture in Eastern and Central Europe cinematographies. 29 researchers declared their participation with a speech, actually 21 of them took active participation and discussed conference topics. Conference audience consisted of lecturers and students of KdE pedagogy and culturral studies. Moreover UAM students of Ukrainian, Serbian, Hungarian philologies, workers of cultural institutions and libraries also visited the conference. The organizaers were supported by Irst year KdE students of tourism and recreation.
Not only speeches and discussions built the conference, but also an exhibition of film books and magazines from Central and Eastern Europe. Guests and participants took part in special performance of Andrzej Wajda's film "Katyń" in Rialto cinema. "Unburied man" by Márta Mészáros was performed after final meeting with special guest .
IVF – the International Visegrad Fund was conference partner. IVF was established in Bratislava in 2000 to promote development of closer cooperation between 4 countries: Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. The Fund supports cultural, scientific and educational projects and promotes tourism and cross-border cooperation.
More at: www.visegradfund.org
Media coverage
Radio Merkury
TVP INFO
Financing of the conference
Marshall of Wielkopolska Voivodeship
Visegrad Fund
The Organising Committee:
Prof. dr hab. Bogusław Bakuła – WSZ KdE Rector and the Committee President, literary and comparative scholar, Poznań,
Prof. UAM, dr hab. Dobrochna Dabert – Polish studies and film scholar at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań,
Prof. Dr. Josef Dolista. Ph.D. – philosopher, University of European and Regional Studies in České Budějovice, Czech Republic ,
Imre Szijartó, Ph.D. – film scholar, Eszterházy Károly Föiskola, Eger, Hungary,
Monika Talarczyk-Gubała, Ph.D. - WSZ KdE, Polish studies and film scholar, Poznań
Prof. dr hab. Marek Wasilewski - Head of Cultural Studies Department in WSZ KdE, new media expert, editor in chief of the "Czas Kultury"
Piotr Zakens, mgr – the owner of the Rialto cinema in Poznań and film expert,
Prof. PhDr. Tibor ®ilka. DrSc. – Constantine the Philosopher University Nitra, Slovakia
Past in Central and Eastern Europe Cinema after 1989
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday, November 8th 2007
Main Lecture Hall, 3rd floor
10.00 – 11.00 a.m.
Bogusław Bakuła, prof. dr hab. – Welcoming session. – Introduction: Past, history, myth, memory, time – in the cinema of Central and Eastern Europe in last years.
Imre Szíjártó, Ph.D. – Problems of canonization in the films of Central and Eastern European countries in the post communist era, Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, Eger, Hungary.
Wasilewski Marek, prof. ASP, Ph.D. – Time in the cinema of one's own, ASP, European Career School, Poznań.
11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Nostalgy, melancholy and other ways of looking back – moderator: prof. Dejan Ajdačić, Ph.D.
Agnieszka Kulig, Ph.D. – Romanian melancholy – reflection on Romanian cinema after 1989, Adam Mickiewicz University, European Career School, Poznań
Iwona Bartnicka, M.A.– Two glances to the past. Communism in Romanian movie reflection, Adam Mickiewicz University, European Career School, Poznań
Hans-Christian Trepte, Ph.D. - Four cases of settlements of past in NRD in German film, Lipsk University, Germany (German, consecutive translation)
12.30 - 1.00 p.m. – coffee break.
1.00 - 3.00 p.m.
Heros and antiheros of national histories - prof. ASP Marek Wasilewski. Ph.D.
Lubomír Pána, Ph.D., Tomáą Fantyą, M.A. – Socjologist analysis of attitudes presented in Czech film in 90, The College of European and Regional Studies, České Budějovice, Czech Republic (consecutive translation).
Karolina Dabert, M.A. – I will serve Poland - until my end or hers…|The past officials of the PRL apparatus of power in the feature film post 1989, European Career School, Poznań.
Monika Talarczyk-Gubała, Ph.D. – Polish film comedy after 1989 towards myths and sins of the Past, European Career School, Poznań.
Ewa Urbaniec, M.A. - Polish cinema in the end of the 20th century as an evidence of active socio-economic changes. Comedy and thriller as an artistic tool of summary of the past era, Debrecen University, Hungary.
Great history – people and events – part I
Łucja Demby, Ph.D. - „Alexander III Was a Good Tsar”… The Polish-Russian dispute about Nikita Mikhalkov` s The Barber of Siberia, Jagiellonian Univeristy, Kraków
3.00 - 3.45 p.m.– lunch break.
3.45 - 4.15.
Dobrochna Dabert, prof. UAM, Ph.D. – Reconstruction and destruction of history in Polish film after 1989 , Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
5.30 p.m. «KATYŃ» - Rialto Cinema (2 h).
Friday, Nov. 9th 2007
10.00 – 12.00 a.m.
New contexts of history – moderator: Imre Szíjártó. Ph.D..
Ajdačić Dejan, Ph.D. - „Profesionalac” by Serbian artist Duąan Kovačević, Taras Szewczenko University in Kiev, Ukraina (consecutive translation).
Ale¶ Arkusz – Film adaptations of Wasyl Bykau’s novels: war is going on, Society of Independent Writers, Połock, Belarus (consecutive translation).
Frontier areas in history – moderator: Monika Talarczyk-Gubała, Ph.D.
Jacek Nowakowski, Ph.D. – Visions of Silesia history in Lech Majewski and Kazimierz Kutz’s film art, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Agata Lisiak, M.A. – City In-Between: Berlin in Film after 1989, Halle-Wittenberg University, Germany..
12.00-1.30 p.m. – coffee break.
1.30 - 2.30 p.m.
Ukraina seeking idenity - moderator: prof. Bogusław Bakuła, Ph.D.
Tetiana Dziadewicz, Ph.D. - Painful searching for myth of identity: generation gap (films by Mychajł Illenko, Jurij Illenko i Ołes Sanin)„Akademia Kijowsko-Mohylanska” in Kiev, Ukraina.
Agnieszka Matusiak, Ph.D. – Ukrainian cinema in 90s searching for national identityj, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław.
Alexander Rutkovsky, Ph.D. - Everlasting Past: Ukrainian Shadows’ Screening in 1987-2007, Ukraińska Akademia Nauk, Kiev, Ukraina.
Great history – people and events – part II – modeator prof. UAM Dobrochna Dabert, Ph.D.
Aleksandra Muga, M.A. - Women look at the revolution. 1956 in “Diary for my Father and Mother” by Márta Mészáros, Adama Mickiewicz Universitya, Poznań.
Grzegorz Bubak, Ph.D. - Revolution of 1956 in Hungarian cinematography. Imre Nagy in Márta Meszaros’s movie, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
2.30 - 3.30 – lunch break.
3.30 Meeting with Márta Mészáros – film perfomance „Unburied Man” (2 hours).
Conference closure – prof. Bogusław Bakuła, Ph.D..
ORGANISERS
Wielkopolska Fundacja im. I.Paderewskiego
Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa „Kadry dla Europy” w Poznaniu
MEDIA COVERAGE:
TVP INFO
Radio Merkury
Czas Kultury
FINANCING BY
Wielkopolska Vojvodeship Marshall
IVF
Information:
The referees are asked to send texts of their speeches not later than Nov 30th.
Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa "Kadry dla Europy"
ul. Mansfelda 4, 60-855 Poznań
tel.
e-mail: m.talarczyk@kde.edu.pl.
Monika Talarczyk-Gubała, Ph.D.
conference coordinator
