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[Commlist] Documenting Socialism Workshop: East German Documentary Cinema
Mon May 23 11:06:28 GMT 2022
/We are thrilled to announce the upcoming German Screen Studies Network
(GSSN) workshop, generously supported by the the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of the Promoting German Studies Project,
“German Screen Studies Network (GSSN): Media, Cultures, Histories” (Dora
Osborne / Paul Flaig https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
<https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/>/)
/Please note that all papers will be live-streamed via MS Teams. All
timings are UK (GMT time). The workshop is open to all who wish to
attend in person or online (and there is no charge for either in-person
attendance or live-streaming)./
/Please register by /*/12.00 noon on Friday 27 May
/*/with///(sa92 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)/ <mailto:(sa92 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)> or
/(Sebastian.Heiduschke /at/ oregonstate.edu)/
<mailto:(Sebastian.Heiduschke /at/ oregonstate.edu)>// if you would like to
attend, so we can supply you with a MS Teams link and/or check that we
have sufficent room capacity./
*_Documenting Socialism Workshop: East German Documentary Cinema_*
*Workshop and Screenings at the University of St Andrews:**3*0 May – 1
June 2022**
*Organisers: Seán Allan (St Andrews) and Sebastian Heiduschke (OSU)*
*_Monday, May 30 (Venue: Wardlaw Museum, Learning Lodge, University of
St Andrews)_*
16.00 Seán Allan (St Andrews) and Sebastian Heiduschke
(OSU): Welcome & Introduction
16.10 – 17.20 *Panel 1: Documentary Auteurs *
16.10 Seán Allan (St Andrews): Peter Voigt: Socialist Documentary and
the Legacy of Brecht
16.30 Jennifer Creech (OSU) [on line @ 8.30 Corvallis, OR] “Sehnsüchte
ohne Illusion”. Documenting Desire and Disillusionment in the Films of
Helke Misselwitz und Petra Tschörtner
16.50 – 17.15 Discussion
17.20 – 18.50 Screening /Paul Robeson: “I’m a Negro, I’m an
American”/ (Kurt Tetzlaff, 1989, 86 mins) introduced by Sebastian
Heiduschke (OSU)
*_Tuesday, May 31 (Venue: Wardlaw Museum Learning Lodge, University of
St Andrews)_*
09.00 – 11.00 *Panel 2: New Work on DEFA in Scotland*
09.00 Sam Osborn (St Andrews): Queer Visibility and Community in DEFA
09.20 Carla Steinbrecher (St Andrews/Bonn) The Studio H&S’s Chile
Films and its ‘Con-Texts’: Fabricating an International Socialist Public
Sphere
09.40 Anna McEwan (Glasgow): The Pinnacle of Progress: /Für das Glück
der Frauen und der Familien/ and International Women’s Year in the GDR
(1975)
10.00 Lauren Cuthbert (Aberdeen) ‘Watching’ photographs: Fostering
solidarity through images of Vietnamese suffering in Studio H&S’s
Vietnam films
10.20 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break
11.25 – 13.25 *Panel 3: Transnational Documentary*
11.25 Andy Räder (Rostock): Documentary Films by and about Sorbs in East
Germany 1946-1992
11.45 Martin Brady (KCL, London): Mass Murder in Cambodia under the
Emblem of Hammer and Sickle: A “revolting juxtaposition” in
Heynowski-Scheumann’s Cambodia Trilogy (1980-1983)
12.05 Sebastian Heiduschke (OSU): Polycentric Images of Africa in East
German Documentaries
12.25 Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
[on-line = 7.25 am in Chapel Hill]: East Germany’s Anti-Racist Politics
and Black Abjection in Documentary Film
12.45- 13.25 Discussion
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 15.00 Screening of /A Diary for Anne Frank?/ (Hellwig, 1958,
18 mins)
15.05 – 15.25 Elizabeth Ward (IMLR, London): /A Diary for Anne
Frank?/ The GDR’s /Nuit et Brouillard/?
15.25 – 15.45 Discussion
15.45– 16.15 Coffee break
16.20 –17.50 *Panel 4:* *Studio Systems and Networks*
16.20 Matthew Bauman (Transylvania University): „Belichtetes Material
türmt sich zu Riesenstößen=E2��: Gerhard Scheumann and the Cinéma Vérité
Debate in the GDR
16.40 Thomas Maulucci (University of Connecticut): The DEFA ‘Foreign
Ministry Films’: Presenting the German Democratic Republic to the World,
1962-1989
17.00 Reinhild Steingröver (Eastman School of Music): Diary of the
Ordinary: Reinventing the Newsreel; DEFA Kinobox, 1981-1990
17.20 – 18.05 Discussion
*_Wednesday 1 June (Venue: Wardlaw Museum Learning Lodge, University of
St Andrews)_*
09.00 – 10.40 *Panel 5: Documenting Alterity*
09.00 Tom Smith (St Andrews): A Woman’s Work: Military Femininities,
Female Masculinities and the Difficulties of Representing Women Soldiers
in East Germany
09.20 Kyle Frackman (UBC): The Queer Cipher in East German Documentary
09.40 Faye Stewart (UNC Greensboro): Is There a ‘Female Gaze’?
10.00 – 10.40 Discussion
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.10 *Panel 6: Pasts and Presents*
11.00 Helen Hughes (Surrey): The Archives Spoke Out. The Compilation
Films of Andrew and Annelie Thorndike
11.20 Stephan Ehrig (Glasgow): The Socialist City and Utopian
Temporality in Halle-Neustadt Documentary
11.40 Jason Doerre (Trinity College): On the Rubble of History:
Searching for the German Past in a European Present in Andreas Voigt’s
Ostpreußenland and Volker Koepp’s Kalte Heimat
12.00 – 12.45 Discussion
12.45 – 13.00 Closing remarks and next steps
13.00 –13.30 Snack Lunch and departure
*Please Note*:
Unless otherwise indicated, all papers will be delivered in-person. The
workshop will be in the Learning Loft in the Wardlaw Museum at the
University of St Andrews.
All papers will be presented in English and both films have English
sub-titles.
It is no longer compulsory to wear a mask under the prevailing Scotgov
regulations, but the University encourages the wearing of masks in
University buildings out of consideration/respect for those who feel
uncomfortable in larger unmasked gatherings.
The University’s Corona code is here:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/coronavirus/covid-code/
<https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/coronavirus/covid-code/>
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