Decentering German Cinema
Max Kade German-American Center
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Organizers: Nichole M. Neuman & Ervin Malakaj
All events are in Eastern Time
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Organizers: Nichole M. Neuman & Ervin Malakaj
All events are in Eastern Time
You can view the recordings of the keynote and the panels by clicking on the available links included in the schedule below. Some of the recordings are incomplete and we apologize in advance.
Friday, November 13, 2020
12:00-12:30 (ET) Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgements
Nichole M. Neuman (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis) & Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia)
12:30-2:00 (ET) Decentering Cinema, or German Cinema in the Age of Media Convergence
Keynote Presentation by Sabine Hake (University of Texas, Austin)
Moderator: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia)
2:15-4:15 (ET) Panel 1: Exile, Migration, and the Colonial Gaze
Moderator: Ljudmila Bilkić (University of Kansas)
Saturday, November 14, 2020
11:00-12:30 (ET) Panel 2: Historical Perspectives
Moderator: Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago)
12:30-1:30 (ET) Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 (ET) Panel 3: Decentering Across Media
Moderator: Thomas O. Haakenson (California College of the Arts)
3:15-4:45 (ET) Panel 4: Conceptual Decentering
Moderator: Paul Dobryden (University of Virginia)
Note on closed captioning: we will have closed captioning of the presentations available after the event. Each panel will be recorded and the recording posted here on the website. Unfortunately we will not be able to provide live closed captioning.
Friday, November 13, 2020
12:00-12:30 (ET) Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgements
Nichole M. Neuman (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis) & Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia)
12:30-2:00 (ET) Decentering Cinema, or German Cinema in the Age of Media Convergence
Keynote Presentation by Sabine Hake (University of Texas, Austin)
Moderator: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia)
2:15-4:15 (ET) Panel 1: Exile, Migration, and the Colonial Gaze
Moderator: Ljudmila Bilkić (University of Kansas)
- André Fischer (Washington University in St. Louis): Migration, Colonialism, and the Cinema of Immanence in Carlos Reygadas’s Stellet Licht
- Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam (University of British Columbia): Mobilizing Migration Technologies in Refugee Cinema: The Smartphone Aesthetics of Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveller (2019)
- Kumars Salehi (University of California, Berkeley): Not Another Exilic Movie: Alienation and the Everyday in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Reifezeit and Tagebuch eines Liebenden
- Valerie Weinstein (University of Cincinnati): Germanness, Jewishness, and the Colonial Gaze: The Ethnographic Films of Friedrich Dalsheim
Saturday, November 14, 2020
11:00-12:30 (ET) Panel 2: Historical Perspectives
Moderator: Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Julie K. Allen (Brigham Young University): What’s in a Name? Asta Nielsen and German Silent Film in Australasia, 1911–1919
- Hanja Dämon (Kings College London): German Filmmaking under British Supervision in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
- Lior Tibet (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Old and the Young King in Ireland: The Irish Film Society and German Cinema, 1936–1945
12:30-1:30 (ET) Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 (ET) Panel 3: Decentering Across Media
Moderator: Thomas O. Haakenson (California College of the Arts)
- Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago): Decentering Weimar Cinema: Locating the Kulturfilm Across Consumerism, Citizenship, and Spectatorship
- Sunka Simon (Swarthmore College): Flixwars: The Sequel
- Evan Torner (University of Cincinnati): Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Other Strangeness: The Transnational German Videogame Film Adaptation
3:15-4:45 (ET) Panel 4: Conceptual Decentering
Moderator: Paul Dobryden (University of Virginia)
- Thomas O. Haakenson (California College of the Arts): Cinema of Distractions: Decentering Time and Space in “German” Avant-Garde Cinema
- Kalani Michell (University of California, Los Angeles): Film Pitches
- Evelyn Preuss (Yale University): The Films of Others Decenter German Cinema
Note on closed captioning: we will have closed captioning of the presentations available after the event. Each panel will be recorded and the recording posted here on the website. Unfortunately we will not be able to provide live closed captioning.