CONFERENCE PROGRAM – Screen Memories
LOCATION: SMALL LECTURE HALL, ELTE GÓLYAVÁR,
MÚZEUM KRT 4. 1088, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
DAY 1: NOVEMBER 24, MONDAY
10.45-10.55 – Welcome
11.00-12.45 – Panel #1 SOVIET/RUSSIAN CINEMA AND REMEMBERING
Kristian Feigelson
» Sorbonne Nouvelle
Screen memories in Georgian film culture
Jasmine Jacq
» University of Franche-Comté
Communist past in Russian cinema after 1991: between solemn tributes and happy desacralization”
Alex Graham
» University College London
“It’s not that they died, they just forgot. Ask whoever you like”: (re)citation, textual poetics and
memory systems of the Soviet intelligentsia in Aleksei German’s ‘Khrustalev, the car!’
14.00-15.30 – Keynote #1
Rainer Rother
» Deutsche Kinemathek
Moments in Time 1989/90
20 years after the peaceful revolution the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Bundeszentrale für
politische Bildung published a collection of thousands of photos and hours of film shot in this
critical period on the internet. These photos and films all came from privat sources. They are both
records of a historical situation and documents of individual experiences.
16.00-17.45 –Panel #2 COUNTER-MEMORIES: OUTCASTS AND TABOOS
Andrea Pócsik – András Müllner
» Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church and Eötvös Loránd University
(Re)Screening the Roma Subaltern: Post-Socialist Visuals of Roma life in Hungary under the socialist
era
Mathieu Memories Lericq
» Sorbonne Nouvelle
(Post-)Communism and homosexuality — From repression to recognition: fiction and documentary
cinema facing a political and social taboo
Balázs Varga
» Eötvös Loránd University
Rock around the block: Postsocialist Nostalgia and Recent Eastern European Cinema
DAY 2: NOVEMBER 25, TUESDAY
9.00-10.45 – Panel #3 COUNTER-MEMORIES: GENDER AND THE BODY
Teréz Vincze
» Eötvös Loránd University
Remembering Socialist Bodies – Picturing the body in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism
Grzegorz Wojcik
» Pedagogical University of Cracow
Woman involved with Polish Newest History. Filmic Representations of Women after Political
Transition in 1989
Marija Katalinic
» Humboldt University
To be or not to be a socialist- comparing womanhood on screen in pre and post Yugoslavian cinema
11.00-13.20 – Panel #4 REPETITION AND NOSTALGIA
Constantin Parvulescu
» West University of Timisoara
The Past as Repetition: The Historical Function of Reruns
Ferenc Hammer
» Eötvös Loránd University
The song remains the same: The cultural politics of socialist popular culture
Phil Mann
» University of St Andrews
Doomed to repeat: The repetition of history in Viktor Oszkár Nagy’s Apaföld/Father’s Acr
Zsolt Gy Memories őri
» University of Debrecen
White Lies, Dark Heritage: Nostalgia and the Search For (New) Illusions in Post-Socialist Hungarian
Cinema
14.50-16.00 – Panel #5 STYLE AND SPACE: VISUALITY AND MEMORY
Adam Nadolny
» Poznan University of Technology
Architecture and City in socialist films of the 1960s in Poland as an element of contemporary cultural
discourse
László Strausz
» Eötvös Loránd University
Realism and modernism in remembering – methodological observations on the new Romanian
cinema
16.30-18.00 – Keynote #2
Catherine Portuges
» University of Massachusetts Amherst
Retracing Holocaust Memory in Hungarian Filmmaking
This presentation engages in multigenerational dialogue Hungarian films by socialist-era directors
with those of post-socialist, second- and third-generation filmmakers, rereading cinematic
representations and re-imaginings of the Shoah and its sequellae 70 years on. Informed by current
debates on the contested terrain of commemoration and memorialization, I suggest ways in which
such re-contextualizations invite open new spaces for critical response. Extracts from the following
films will be screened: Géza Radványi (Somewhere in Europe/Valahol Európában, 1947); István Szabó
(Father/Apa, 1966); Miklós Jancsó (Message of Stones/Kövek üzenete, 1994); Judit Elek (To Speak the
Unspeakable: the Message of Elie Wiesel/Mondani a mondhatatlant: Elie Wiesel üzenete, 1996); Diana Groó
(Kazinczy utca, 1999; Regina, 2013; and Livia Gyarmathy, A Tér/The Square, 2014.
DAY 3: NOVEMBER 26, WEDNESDAY
9.00-10.45 – Panel #6 COMPARATIVE REMEMBERING: MNEMONICS ACROSS BORDERS
Mónika Dánél – Stephan Krause
» Eötvös Loránd University and Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe
‘Has it taken place or not?’ – Figurations of ‘Romanian’ and ‘German’ 1989
Hajnal Király
» University of Lisbon
From Amnesia to Active Recalling: Representations of Memory in Contemporary Hungarian and
Romanian Cinema
Andrea Virginás
» Sapientia University
Experiencing foreign spaces: memories lingering between afilmic, profilmic and diegetic realities
11.00-12.45 –Panel #7 MNEMONICS TECHNIQUES IN NATIONAL CINEMAS
Katarina Misikova
» Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
A Country of Tiny History and Thick Lines?!
Raluca Iacob
» University of St Andrews
(n)Ostalgie of the everyday life: 1989 in post-communist cultural memory
Sanjin Pejkovic
» Lund University
Re-inventing the past: Yugo-nostalgia in post-Yugoslav film memories
14.00-15.30 – Keynote #3
Ewa Mazierska
» University of Central Lancashire
History and Memory of State Socialism in Polish (and other) Postcommunist Cinema
My paper will consist of two parts. In the first part I will present the official discourse on history in
Poland during the period of state socialism and after 1989, trying to establish what was specific for
Poland’s construction of its history and what it shared with other countries of the Eastern bloc, most
importantly Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In the second part I will discuss a number of films about
state socialist past belonging to different genres, such as a historical film, a documentary and a
comedy, trying to establish how the use of these genres affected historical representations.
15.45-16.55 – Panel #8 SECRET SERVICE MEMORIES
Péter György
» Eötvös Loránd University
The parody of Schiller’s Aesthetics through ‘The Lives of Others’
Cheryl Dueck
» University of Calgary
Secret Police in Style: The Aesthetics of Remembrance
