[Commlist] Future of German Screen Studies Conference

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*19^th -21^st June, 2024*

*Buchanan Building (School of Modern Languages)*

*Union Street*

*University of St Andrews*

*Organisers: Dora Osborne & Paul Flaig *

*Network Coordinator: Carla Steinbrecher*

*German Screen Studies Network*

*Supported by DAAD Promoting German Studies Networking Grant*

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*/_Wednesday 19^th 
June                                                                                                      
                                     Buchanan Lecture Theatre_/*__

_1:00-1:15: /Arrival and Welcome/_

Paul Flaig & Dora Osborne (University of St Andrews)

_1:15-2:30:_/_Keynote Lecture 1_/

“The Present Interest(s) of German Film History”

Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan)

_2:30-3:00: Coffee Break_(Buchanan Building Foyer)

_3-4:30: /Panel 1 New Histories and Historiographies/_//

Moderator: Anushrut Agrwaal

“Disability as a critical term for German film history”

Paul Dobryden (University of Virginia)

“Chemical Exposures: An Ecological History of Film Manufacturing”

Katerina Korola (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

“Queer Cinematic Histories”

Leila Mukhida (University of Cambridge)

_4:30-5:30: /Panel 2 Race, Desire and Media in the Berlin Republic/_

Moderator: Lucy Fife Donaldson

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“Black Gay Nights: Berlin’s Queer of Colour Club Culture and the 1996 
Teddy Award”

Tom Smith (University of St Andrews)

“‘What if…dreams light-years away suddenly became tangible?’ Race, 
Sexuality, and Fandom in the Transmedial Web Series /DRUCK/”

Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

*_5:30-7:00: Pizza and Wine Reception_**(Buchanan Building Foyer*)

_7:00-8:15: Film Screening_

*/Kohlhiesel’s Daughters /**(Ernst Lubitsch, 1920) at the Byre Theatre 
(South Street)*

*UK Premiere of 4K Restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung, 
with live musical accompaniment.*

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*/_Thursday 20^th June _/*

_9:00-10:00: /Keynote Lecture 2/_(Buchanan Lecture Theatre)__

“Archival Reparations: for a reparatory German film history?”

Erica Carter (King’s College, London)

_10:00-10:30: Coffee Break_(Buchanan Building Foyer)

_10:30-12:00: /Panel 3 Transnational Spaces and Transcultural/ 
/Times/_(Buchanan Lecture Theatre)__

Moderator: Viviane Saglier

“From a Condemned Drama to an Acceptable Film: Boxer Nationalism, 
German-British Camaraderie, and Rosa Jung in /Alarm in Peking/ (1937)”

Qinna Shen (Bryn Mawr College)

“Whither German Screen Studies? ‘Multidirectional’ Memory Across Moving 
Image Practices”

Lawrence Alexander (University of Oxford)

“#ACHTUNG CINEPHILIE: Cinephilia as a Transnational Perspective on 
German Screen Culture”

Marie Krämer (University of Marburg & Université de Lorraine)

_12:00-1:30 Panels 4 and 5_

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/Panel 4 Legacies of Weimar Cinema /(Buchanan Lecture Theatre)//

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Moderator: Tom Rice

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“Fritz Lang’s Media”

Mary Hennessy (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

“The Threat of Dissolution: Finance and Liquidity in Weimar Cinema”

Owen Lyons (Toronto Metropolitan University)

“‘Primitive Savages’ and ‘Exotic Nightmares’: Depictions of Racial 
‘Otherness’ in Weimar Cinema”

Molly Harrabin (Warwick)

/Panel 5 Televising German Screen Studies /(Buchanan B216)//

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Moderator: Dora Osborne

“Streaming Television and German (Screen) Studies: Challenges and 
Opportunities

Stephan Ehrig (Glasgow) & Benjamin Schaper (Independent Scholar)

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*_1:30-2:30: Lunch_**(Buchanan Building Foyer) *

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_2:30-4:00: Panels 6 and 7_

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/Panel 6//Theories of Ecocinema /(Buchanan Lecture Theatre)

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Moderator: Phillipa Lovatt

“‘Emblems of a Forgotten Future’: Landscape Films, Atmosphere, and 
Theories of More-than-Human Physiognomy”

Tyler Parks (University of St Andrews)

“/Stimmung/: A Concept out of Tune?”

Steffen Hven (Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)

“Active Serenity: Dwelling with Nature in Werner Herzog’s films

Haotian (Walden) Wu (University of Cambridge)

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/Panel 7 Legacies of Nazi Violence /(Buchanan B216)

Moderator: Colette Lawson

“Victims, Perpetrators, Implicated Subjects: The Future of Austrian 
Remembrance on Screen”

Katya Krylova (University of Aberdeen)

“Ethics, Agency, and the Future of the Child in German-Language Film”

Alexandra Lloyd (University of Oxford)

“Beyond Borders: Masculinity, Memory, and National Identity in 
/Munich-The Edge of War/ (2021)”

Biyu Chen (King’s College, London)

_4:00-4:15: Coffee Break_(Buchanan Building Foyer)

_4:15-5:45: Panels 8 and 9_

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/Panel 8//Histories of Ecocinema /(Buchanan Lecture Theatre)

Moderator: Tyler Parks


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“Mountains and the (Un)natural woman: Performance and Physiognomy in 
/Die Bergkatze/ (1921) and /Das blaue Licht/ (1932)

Ellie Richardson (University of Cambridge)

“Back to the Land: Rediscovering the Rural Spaces of Postwar German Cinema”

Nancy Wilson (Queen Mary, University of London)

/Panel 9//Women in German Screen Studies/ (Buchanan B216)

Moderator: Dora Osborne

“Precarious Kinship, Conflicting Memories, and Ambivalent Affects of 
Belonging in Cho Sung-hyung’s Korean-German Documentaries”

Qingyang Freya Zhou (University of California, Berkeley)

“The elusive dream of reproductive freedom: abortion, art and politics 
in documentary film”

Patricia Lehner (King’s College, London)

“Aesthetics of Solitude in German Women’s Cinema”

Hyojin Yoon (King’s College, London)

*/_Friday 21^st June _/*__

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_9:00-10:00: /Keynote Lecture 3/_(Buchanan Lecture Theatre)__

“DEFA, Media Convergence and the Socialist Imaginary”

Seán Allan (University of St Andrews / University of Bonn)

_10:00-10:30: Coffee Break_(Buchanan Building Foyer)

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_10:30-12:15: Panels 10 and 11_

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/Panel 10//Legacies of GDR Cinema/ (Buchanan Lecture Theatre)

Moderator: Seán Allan

“Taking Stock: Wolfen and the Filmic Production of (GDR) History”

Danny Pinto (University of Chicago)

“Revolutionary Romantics: The Mediation of Latin American Poetry in DEFA 
Documentary Film in the 1970s”

Carla Steinbrecher (University of St Andrews)

“The Future of the Future: Now Playing at Theaters Near You”

Evelyn Preuss (University of Oklahoma)

“German film from red to green: Environmental concerns and human impact 
on film”

Sam Osborn (University of Exeter)

/Panel 11 A Post-human future?: Animals, Androids, Cannibals/(Buchanan B216)

Moderator: Paul Flaig

“‘Nekrophilie ist die Liebe zur Zukunft’: Jörg Buttgereit, Heiner 
Müller, and German Futures After the Wall”

Jack Davis (Truman State University)

“Posthuman Futures in the Berlin School”

Dora Osborne (University of St Andrews)

“The Future Was Female: Media Archaeology, Gendered Technology and 
German Screen History”

Paul Flaig (University of St Andrews)

_12:20-12:30: Closing Remarks + Departure_

(Buchanan Lecture Theatre)__

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