[ecrea] CFP: Ethics in Romanian Cinema

>To Act or Not to Act: Ethics in Romanian Cinema
>University of Pittsburgh
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>We invite paper proposals for a panel on the topic of Ethics in
>Romanian Cinema. The graduate student panel will be organized in
>conjunction with the second edition of the Romanian Film Festival
>organized by the Pittsburgh Romanian Studies association at the
>University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural
>Institute (New York) and the Romanian National Center for Cinema. The
>festival benefits from the support of the Cultural Studies Program,
>the Film Studies Program, the Jewish Studies Program, the Graduate and
>Professional Student Assembly, the Office of the Dean of Arts and
>Sciences, and the Russian and Eastern European Studies Program.
>
>The new generation of Romanian filmmakers has opened the black box of
>the communist past, as well as Pandoras box of the uncertain present,
>to unravel personal ethical dilemmas, which reflect larger social
>problems. The slow tempo and intimate atmosphere of many of the
>post-1989 feature films and shorts enable the spectators to identify
>with the protagonists and ponder over the way in which they might have
>acted had they been in a similar position.
>
>The panel will explore a range of ethical problems raised by post-1989
>Romanian cinema. How do harsh socio-economic conditions shape personal
>decisions? What are the strategies employed by Romanian filmmakers to
>underscore the interdependence between individual and collective
>responsibility? What is the relation between the gritty aesthetics of
>these movies and the troublesome ethical questions they pose? How are
>people adjusting their personal ethical compass to the new political,
>economic, and judicial systems introduced in the wake of the 1989
>revolution?
>
>Symposium topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
>-heroes and anti-heroes of the communist and post-communist period
>-correlations between ethics and aesthetics
>-morality and the law
>-ethics and the media
>-the generation gap
>-the convergence of multiple temporalities
>-memories, melancholy, estrangement
>-the relationship between East and West
>
>-skepticism and pessimism
>
>We encourage paper submissions from graduate students at all stages of
>research, working in any discipline ­ film studies, philosophy,
>sociology, art history, etc. Abstracts should be under 350 words.
>Final presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Please submit
>abstracts and CVs to: (ethicsinromaniancinema /at/ gmail.com) by September
>20, 2010. We will notify selected speakers by September 25.
>For more information, see festival website:
>http://ethicsinromaniancinema.wordpress.com/
>
>--
>Cristina Albu
>PhD Candidate
>Department of History of Art and Architecture
>University of Pittsburgh
>http://www.haa.pitt.edu/graduate/albu.html

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