Socialist and Postsocialist Useful Film Conference

Name: Socialist and Postsocialist Useful Film Conference
Start: 2025-05-05T10:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-05-06T19:00:00+03:00
Location: UNATC I. L. Caragiale

Schedule

Mon, 05 May, 2025 at 10:00 am to Tue, 06 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

UNATC I. L. Caragiale | Bucharest, BU

Socialist and Postsocialist Useful Film Conference
5-6 May, Bucharest
Day 1: May 5, 2025
10:00 Conference Opening
10:15-12:30 Panel 1: Politics
10:15-11:00 Irina Tcherneva (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris): Useful Cinema During ‘Late Stalinism’ in the Soviet Union (1944-1953): A Mirror of Repressions
11:00-11:45 Pedro Doreste Rodriguez (Michigan State University): “El gusano de izquierda”: From Reform to Revolution in the Cinema of Oscar Torres
11:45-12:30 Ling Zhang (Leiden University): Newsreels as Useful Films in Socialist China: Cinema and “People’s Diplomacy”
12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:45 Panel 3: Education
14:30-15:15 Victoria Elizarova (Goethe University, Frankfurt a. Main): Films for Settlers: Agronomic Education and Railways in the Russian Empire and the Early USSR
15:15-16:00 Andrei Voineag (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Didactic Children’s Animation in Socialist Romania: Human Labour as a Natural Process or When Cocoa Beans Worked Themselves
16:00-16:45 Kaiyi Li (Leibniz Institut für Bildungsmedien, Braunschweig): Shaping the Socialist Ideal: Constructing the Film Character Gu Sanjuan as a Model Primary School Teacher in 1960s China
16:45-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:45 Panel 3: Logistics
17:15-18:00 Lucie Česálková (Charles University, Prague): Raws, Heroes, and Operations. Reading Socialist Industrial Film Environmentally
18:00-18:45 László Strausz (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): The Scientific-Technological Rhetoric and the Deployment of Data in the BM Studio’s Output
Day 2: May 6, 2025
11:00-13:15 Panel 3: Bodies
11:00-11:45 Iulia Necșulescu (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Gender as Labor: Performing Femininity in Romanian Socialist Useful Films
11:45-12:30 Zane Balčus (Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga): On Sexual Health and Healthy Sexuality: Insights from Commissioned Films Produced at Riga Film Studio
12:30-13:15 Eszter M. Polónyi (Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Imaging the Body for Medical Research: The Paul Heim Hospital Films at the Hungarian National Film Archives
13:15-15:15 Lunch Break
15:15-17:30 Panel 4: Advertising
15:11-16:00 Ana Szel (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): Socialist Advertising in Theory and Practice
16:00-16:45 Ralf Forster (Film University Babelsberg, Potsdam): Freezing for Europe? Commercials for Refrigerators Made in the GDR
16:45-17:30 Christian Ferencz-Flatz (National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest): The First Postsocialist Romanian Advertisements and What Came Before Them
17:30 Conference Closing
18:00-19:00 Workgroup Business Meeting