[ecrea] European Historical Drama in the Digital Age - A one-day conference

European Historical Drama in the Digital Age - A one-day conference



Tuesday 17 March, 2015

9.30-17.00, Law and Management Building (LMB/002), University of York 
(Heslington East campus)



In today’s media-saturated society, films and television dramas are one 
of the primary ways in which we learn about our past. But as well as 
being educational, informative and entertaining, historical dramas are 
often the focus for intense debate about their historical accuracy, 
whose story gets told and what these stories mean to us in the present. 
Moreover, with so many films and television dramas now reaching a 
transnational audience, they can also become embroiled in wider 
political and economic agendas, from tourism campaigns to diplomatic 
disputes. Witness, for example, the way in which the recent German 
mini-series Generation War (Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter) prompted 
outrage in neighbouring Poland for portraying the Polish anti-Nazi 
resistance as fanatical anti-Semites.



This one-day conference, organised by the MeCETES project with the 
financial support of HERA, the Centre for Digital Heritage and 
Department of Theatre Film and Television, University of York, brings 
together some of Europe’s leading film and television scholars to 
discuss historical drama in contemporary Europe. Addressing issues of 
production, representation, distribution and audience reception, it will 
focus on key case-studies from Britain, Germany and Denmark. It will 
also address the question of how digitisation is changing the way 
historical dramas are produced, circulated and consumed. Our aim is to 
identify some of the emerging trends within this important area of research.



The event is being organised in partnership with the Researching 
European Film & Television Drama – PhD Workshop.



Speakers:

- Andrew Higson (University of York), “Heritage Films in Europe: The 
Transnational Production, Circulation and Reception of ‘National’ 
Heritage Drama”

- Ib Bondebjerg (University of Copenhagen), “Collective Memory and 
National and European Identity: A Case Study of UK Historical TV Drama 
in Denmark”

- Paul Cooke (University of Leeds), “Reconfiguring the National 
Community Transnationally: teamWorx, Television and the ‘Eventization’ 
of German History”

- David Forrest (University of Sheffield), “Red Riding: Rewriting the 
Northern Imaginary”

- Gunhild Agger (Aalborg University), “Traditions of Danish Historical 
Drama, Its Sources of Inspiration and Its Appeal”

- Kim Toft Hansen (Aalborg University), “‘High Quality Historical 
Drama’: The Danish Case of 1864”

- Q&A with Nick Wild and Alistair Maclean-Clark (360 Degrees Media) on 
producing historical drama



Conference registration fee:

- Academic staff: £25

- Students/postgrads: £20

- University of York staff and students: free



Visit our online payment system to register: http://bit.ly/192JcRH

More info: 
http://mecetes.co.uk/events/european-historical-drama-digital-age/



Sponsorship:

This event is financially supported by HERA, The Centre for Digital 
Heritage and the Department of Theatre Film and Television, University 
of York.

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