Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation
An international interdisciplinary conference taking place at Queen Mary, University of London. For more information please visit http://russiaonscreen.blogspot.com/ and e-mail russiaonscreen@hotmail.co.uk
Saturday 10 May 2008
Conference Programme
Venue: Hitchcock Cinema, Arts G.19, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
9am – 9.30am Registration and coffee
9.30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Dr Jeremy Hicks
(Queen Mary, University of London)
Keynote Speaker: Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester)
From Russia with Love? James Bond, the Cold War and Anglo-Russian Relations
10.00am Panel 1: Importing Russia
Chair: Lucy Bolton (QMUL)
Harlow Robinson, ‘Russian Music in Hollywood Cinema’
Amy Sargeant, ‘Gaming with Pushkin’
Raisa Sidenova, ‘Mother Russia and her Daughters: Representations of Russian Women in Hollywood Films, 1941-45’
11.15am Coffee
11.30am
Panel 2: Russian Women: Mothers and Others
Chair: Sophie Mayer (University of Cambridge)
Candyce Veal, Planes of Discourse: Defining Women through Soviet Aviation on Screen
Emily Schuckman, The Prostitutka Abroad: Foreign Representations of the Russian Prostitute
Ekaterina Vassileva, Eternal Mothers and Lost Sons: Sexual and National Identity in the Soviet Film Since the 1960s
1pm-1.45 pm
Buffet Lunch.
Loop screening of video composition Towards the True Man or a Reach Too Far (Pavla Alchin), UK 2008, 10 mins Hitchcock Cinema
1.45-2.15pm Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Julian Graffy (SSEES-UCL)
In the Hinterland: Evolving Cinematic Images of Life in the Russian Provinces
2.15pm Panel 3: No More Heroes?
Chair: John Haynes (University of Essex)
William Brown, The Portrayal of Fatherhood in Recent Russian Cinema
José Alaniz, The Disabled Man in Post-War Soviet Cinema
Natalia Danilova, Masculinity and The Post-Soviet Warrior
3.45pm Coffee
4.00pm Panel 4: Constructing and Reconstructing Russian Identity
Chair: Jeremy Hicks (QMUL)
Daniel Levitsky, The Cinematic Relaunch of Russia’s Soviet Identity, 1953-1968
Jasmijn Van Gorp, The Russian Blockbuster as a Tool to Articulate a National Identity: The Case of The Ninth Regiment
4.50pm Comfort Break
5.00pm Panel 5: Russianness and Otherness
Chair: Julian Graffy (SSEES-UCL)
Anna Hillman, Representing Globalization and Russian National Identity in Crisis: Iurii Mamin’s Okno v Parizh
Lars Kristensen, Framing Post-Soviet Russians Abroad in Cinema: A Transnational Challenge to Theory
Olga Tabachnikova, Russian Culture: Western View in the Russian Mirror
6.30pm Concluding remarks followed by wine reception
7.00pm Dinnner & Post-mortem at L’Oasis restaurant, Mile End Road
