Museums, Archives and Cinema in Reshaping Popular Perceptions of the Socialist Past
Open Society Archives (OSA Archivum), Budapest June 8-11, 2006
The workshop will analyze the use of audio-visual material - including archival footage, documentary and feature films, exhibition catalogues, memorials, and other traces of historical remembrance - in the process of 'reshaping' the memory of the socialist past in Eastern Europe. The aim of the workshop is to contribute to the understanding of the ways in which historical revisionism uses both familiar and recently discovered audio-visual material - from popular cinematographic imagery to
previously classified information. The principles of exhibiting these materials
and other ways of making them available to the broad public will be in the focus
of the workshop discussions.
Program
Thursday, June 8, 2006
1-2 pm Registration of participants
2 pm Opening of the workshop;
Welcome by Istvan Rev (Director, OSA Archivum)
Panel I: Museums1: Between Terror and 'Normalization'
2.30-3 pm The former KGB-Prison Potsdam-Neuer Garten and the Exhibition "From Potsdam to Workuta"
Jörn Grünewald (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
3-3.30 pm The "Virtual Gulag Museum" RIC Memorial St Petersburg Irina Flige
(Research and Information Centre Memorial, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
3.30-4 pm Muzeum Komunizmu "SocLand"
Zuzanna Bogumil (Museum of Communism Project at the Warsaw Board for City Development, Warsaw, Poland)
4-5 pm Discussion
5-5.30 pm Coffee Break
5.30-6 pm The Sighet Memorial in Romania Virginia Ion (Civic Academy Foundation, Bucharest, Romania)
6-6.30 pm Exhibiting Communism in Romania: Getting Closer by Creating Distance Gabriela Cristea (Peasant Museum, Bucharest, Romania) and Simina Radu-Bucurenci (CEU, Budapest, Hungary)
6.30-7 pm Discussion
OPTIONAL PROGRAM:
9 pm Screening of The Great Communist Bank Robbery (Director: A. Solomon, 2004, 75')
Friday, June 9, 2006
Panel II: Museums 2: New Narratives
9.30-10 am Stain. Exhibiting Victims
István Rév (OSA, Budapest, Hungary)
10-10.30 am Revenge - Solidarity - Heroism: Hungary 2006-1956 a Kaleidoscopic View Tjebbe van Tijen (Imaginary Museum Projects, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Anna Balint (freelance curator, Budapest, Hungary)
10.30-11 am The Unmemorable and the Unforgettable: Museum Visualizations in post-1989 Bulgaria
Nikolai Vukov (Institute of Folklore, Sofia, Bulgaria)
11-11.30 am Discussion
11.30-12 am Coffee Break
12-12.20 pm History Meeting House - Witnesses and Testimonies of the XX Century Piotr Jakubowski (History Meeting House and KARTA Center, Warsaw, Poland)
12.20-12.50 pm Remembering and Forgetting Genocide: The Difference Made by State Representations of the Soviet Deportations Rebecca Gould (Columbia University, New York City, US)
12.50-1.20 pm Does Post-Socialism Need Museums Anymore?
Marko Stamenkovic (freelance curator, Belgrade, Serbia)
1.20-1.50 pm Discussion
1.50-3 pm Lunch (served at OSA)
Panel III, Part 1: Archives and Displays: Hot and Cold War
3-3.30 pm The Representation of the Cold War: The Peace and War Camps in Czechoslovakia 1948-1960 Roman Krakovsky (University of Paris 1 Pantheon -Sorbonne, Paris, France)
3.30-4 pm A Neverending Story: Politics, Primary Sources, and Reconstruction of Historical Justice in the Contemporary Relations Between Russia and the Baltic States Vsevolod Bashkuev (Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, Russia)
4-4.30 pm 'Ugly Motherland": Visual Strategies for Deconstructing the Official Soviet Discourse in the late 1980s Galina Orlova (Rostov-on-Don State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
4.30-5 pm Out from the Past: Yugoslavia in Fiction and Non-fiction Cinema
Nevena Dakovic (University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)
5-5.30 pm Discussion
OPTIONAL PROGRAM
6 pm Visit to Artpool Foundation and Archive (preregistration required, 10 people maximum)
9 pm Screening of Life of an Agent (Director: Gábor Zsigmond Papp, Hungary,
2004, 82 min)
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Panel IV: Cinema I: Archival Materials in Cinema
10-10.30 am Croatian History in the Films Made in Croatia during the Second
World War (1941-1945) Daniel Rafaelic (National Film Archive, Zagreb, Croatia)
10.30-11 am Undressing the Naked Truth: Politics and Pornography, Private/Public Lives in Kádár's Kiss by Péter Forgács Balázs Varga (National Film Archive, Budapest, Hungary)
11-11.30 am Discussion
11.30-12 am Dance Floors of Liberation Waltzes: Post-Communist Perspectives on the Shaping of an Imaginary Neutral Center of Cold War Europe (Austria in Soviet Newsreel and Documentaries) Barbara Wurm (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
12-12.30 pm The Vision of the Socialist Past Eastern Europe through the Newsreels in the Non-communist Area: the Spanish Newsreel NO-DO.
Araceli Rodríguez Mateos (University King Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)
12.30-1 pm Discussion
1-2.30 pm Lunch
Panel III, Part 2: Archives and Displays: Public Life of Secret Police
2.30-3 pm Communist Secret Services on the Screen: The Adventures of the Duna-gate Scandal in Hungarian Media Renata Uitz (CEU, Budapest, Hungary)
3-3.30 pm The Mysterious Events around the Balatonboglár Chapel Studio from 1970 to 1974, in the Highlight of the Secret Police Reports and the Contemporary Mass Media Perception Péter Fuchs (Artpool, Budapest, Hungary)
3.30-4 pm Discussion
4-4.30 pm Coffee Break
4.30-5 pm Life of an Agent in the Making Gábor Zsigmond Papp (filmmaker, Budapest, Hungary)
5-5.30 pm The Making of the Great Communist Bank Robbery Alexandru Solomon
(filmmaker, Bucharest, Romania)
5.30-6 pm Discussion
OPTIONAL PROGRAM:
9 pm Screening of Portrait of a Man of Power (Director Zlatina Rousseva, Bulgaria, 1991)
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Panel IV: Cinema II: New Narratives
9.30-10 am The portrait of the man in power: Todor Zhivkov Zlatina Rousseva
(filmmaker, Belgium/Bulgaria)
10-10.30 am 'Big' and 'Small' Histories Through the 'Rules' of Filmmaking.
Reflections on the Uses of Footage, Documentaries, and Archives of the Communist Time Alexander Yanakiev (Institute of Art Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria)
10.30-11 am The Political Camera: Comparing 1956 in Three Key Moments of
Hungarian Film History Catherine Portuges (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US)
11-11.30 am A Pale Phantom: Motive of Liberation in the Post-Soviet Cinema
Oksana Sarkisova (OSA, Budapest, Hungary)
11.30-12 am Discussion
12-12.30 pm Coffee Break
12.30-2 pm Closing round table, Comments and Feedback
Organized by Oksana Sarkisova in cooperation with Katalin Gádoros, Zsuzsanna Kerekes, and János Ponczók.
Due to space limitations, preregistration is required for workshop attendance. To register for the workshop please contact Zsuzsanna Kerekes at kerekesz@ceu.hu
Oksana Sarkisova
Open Society Archives (OSA Archivum)
Goldberger House, Arany János u. 32
1051 Budapest
tel: ++36-1-327-3250
fax: ++36-1-327-3260
email: sarkisovao@ceu.hu
website: http://osa.ceu.hu
Karen L. Kettering
Curator of Russian and Eastern European Art
Hillwood Museum & Gardens
4155 Linnean Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: (202) 243-3912 (direct)
Tel: (202) 686-8500 (main office)
Fax: (202) 966-7846
http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org
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