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Multimedial Representations of the Other and the Construction of Reality: East-Central Europe, 1945 – 1980
International Conference
December 2-5, 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria
Hotel “Dom na uchenia”, 50 Shipchenski Prohod Blvd. Sofia
Organizers: Dagnosław Demski (Warsaw), Ildikó Sz. Kristóf (Budapest), Anelia Kasabova (Sofia), Evgenia Troeva-Grigorova (Sofia), Petko Hristov (Sofia), Violeta Periklieva (Sofia), Ivaylo Markov (Sofia)
PROGRAMME
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
09.00-09.30 WELCOME ADDRESSES
09.30-11.30 PANEL 1: TYPOLOGY AND VISIONS
Chair: Karl Kaser
Dagnosław Demski: Picturing difference (the 1940s – 1970s). From documentary and news media to cultural commentary, art and mass media
Katya Lachowicz: Multimedial Representations of the Other and the Construction of Reality:
East-Central Europe, 1945 – 1980
Christoph Lorke: Thinking and visualizing the Social: Social Images of “Poverty” and the Construction of “Self” and “Otherness” in “actually existing socialism” (GDR, Soviet Union, Bulgaria, 1960s-1980s)
Veselin Tepavitcharov: Typology of otherness according to Bulgarian media during the socialist period
Kristina Popova: “1980: In factories and fields a new man is singing”: Visions of the communist person to be in the children media in Bulgaria 1960 – 1965
Milena Angelova: Disease as Otherness. Media coverage of tuberculosis in Bulgaria (1940-1950)
Discussion
11.30 – 12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.00-14.30 PANEL 2: (COLD) WAR IMAGES – Part I
Chair: Nataša Mišković
Karl Kaser: Cinema in the Balkans in the 1950s and 1960s; Ideology and Mass Consumption
Dobrinka Parusheva: Cold War Everyday in Bulgaria: Black and White
Petko Hristov: “Tito’s Gang – an Instrument of the Imperialists”. The images of the Yugoslav’s “revisionism” in the Bulgarian newspapers
Ewa Baniowska-Kopacz: “Westernization” of the Polish eastern borderland after WWII
Ágnes Tamás: Old-new enemies in caricatures in the first years after the Second World War (1945–1947)
Raymond Detrez: “Rivals and Collaborators”. The image of the West in Albanian anti-Soviet propaganda
Katerina Gadjeva: Bulgaria through the eyes of foreigners during the 1960s. Photographic representations of the “tourist paradise”
Discussion
14.30-16.00 LUNCH BREAK
16.00-17.00 PANEL 3: (COLD) WAR IMAGES – Part II
Chair: Dagnosław Demski
Maria Fritsche: The ubiquitous German & the absent Jew. The role of the ‘other’ in Austrian historical costume film 1946-55
Magdalena Żakowska: War, Peace and Socialism. Brave New World and Its Enemies in German Satirical Press during the Cold War (1946-1956)
Robert Bacalja & Katarina Ivon: Echoes of the „Trieste crisis“ in the Voice of Zadar in 1953 and 1954
Discussion
17.00 – 17.15 COFFEE BREAK
17.15-18.30 PANEL 4: (COLD) WAR IMAGES – Part III
Chair: Dagnosław Demski
Justyna Szymanska: The Old-New Other: Ukrainians in pre- and post-war Polish media, art and folklore
Anna Rosner: Representation of Jewish figures in chosen post-war films
Władysław Chłopicki: Gnida (Slimeball) and Comrade Szmaciak as Unique Visions of the Other in Postwar Poland
Discussion
18.30-19.00 Presentation of “Contextualizing Changes: Migrations, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe”, collection published by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum-BAS and the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology-PAN
Thursday, December 3, 2015
09.00-11.30 PANEL 5: GLOBAL – LOCAL OTHERNESS
Chair: Maria Fritsche
John Eade: Engaging with the Others: British media representations and Communist Europe amid imperial decline
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa: Socialist in form, nationalist in content? The Other and othering in representations of Soviet-era song and dance festivals in Estonia
Tomasz Kalniuk: American snake in a socialist paradise. Anti-American myths in selected images of Pomeranian press in the 1960s
Maria Godyń: Contexts of the other. On the example of local Cracow's press visual materials, from the period of 1956-1970
Ivelina Eftimova: The Other in the Razgrad local press and politics – between the Communist Party ideology and reality
Veneta Yankova: Visualizing Otherness in the Regional Press during the socialism
Zbigniew Libera & Magdalena Sztandara: Ethnographers’ self-presentation in the photographs from the fieldwork. The example of post-war ethnology in Poland
Discussion
11.30-12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.00-14.00 PANEL 6: IMAGES OF REMOTE OTHERS
Chair: Violeta Periklieva
Nataša Mišković: The Cult of the Non-aligned. Visual Representations of Tito, Nehru and Nasser
Ildiko Sz. Kristof: (Multi-)mediatized Indians in Socialist Hungary: Winnetou, Tokei-ihto, and Other Popular Heroes of the 1970s in East-Central Europe
Irina Genova: The Images of the Remote Other (Images of Cuba, Algeria, and Tunis) and the Missing Images of the Close Other (Bulgarian Gypsies, Pomaks, and Turks) in the Bulgarian Art from the Time of the Communist Government (1960s-1970s)
Desislava Pileva: Images of the Other – the Representations of Students from the Middle East and Africa in Bulgarian Newspapers /1960s – 1970s/
Elife Krasniqi: ‘Kara-aba’ – the black nanny in Prishtina and her photography as medium of the past
Karmen Medica: The Images of “belonging” – economic migrants after the Second World War
Discussion
14.00-15.30 LUNCH BREAK
15.30-16.45 PANEL 7: IMAGES OF CLOSE OTHERS – Part I
Chair: Ildiko Sz. Kristof
Anna Walkowiak: Between Kalevala and Finlandization – the stereotype of the Finn in Peoples' Republic of Poland
Anssi Halmesvirta: The Image of the Soviets and Blacks in Finnish Cartoons c. 1956–1990: The Case of Kari
Svetla Antova: “You are Listening Much Serbian There!” The Presence of Serbian Media in the Everyday Life of Belogradchik's Border Zone in 70s of XX century
Biljana Sicimić: Grave marker pictures: visualising Banat Bulgarians
Discussion
16.45-17.00 COFFEE BREAK
17.00-18.15 PANEL 8: IMAGES OF CLOSE OTHERS – Part II
Chair: Ildiko Sz. Kristof
Valentina Nedelcheva: “Bulgaria beyond the barbed wire” – politics of shaping the image of the other toward the Bulgarian minority in SFRY
Annemarie Sorescu Marinković: Multimedial perception of the Other: Yugoslav television in socialist Romania
Ilkim Buke: Arab Other in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1908-1939
Discussion
Friday, December 4, 2015
09.00-11.30 PANEL 9: THE OWN “OTHERS” – NORM AND “OTHERNESS”
Chair: Ivaylo Markov
Anelia Kasabova: The own “Others” in Bulgarian Film of the 1960-1970s
Kamen Donchev: Presentation of the Other (the Class Enemy, the Unconventional, the Foreigner, the Person with Different Faith) in the Bulgarian Feature Films from 1944 to 1989
Georgeta Nazarska: The Image of the “Religious Other” through the Eyes of Bulgarian Cartoonists (1960-1970s)
Maria Slavcheva: Visual representations of the Other in the city
Miglena Ivanova: Representations of Female Bodies: Between the Rural and the Urban
Kristina Bobeva: Transformation of the Village – City Relationship in Socialist Bulgaria
Dominika Czarnecka: The Beautiful Other. Displaying Values by Forging “Ideal Beauty” (Polish Communist Press in the 1950s-1960s)
Discussion
11.30-12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.00-14.30 PANEL 10: IMAGES OF THE “OTHER” EVERYDAY LIFE – Part I
Chair: Liisi Laineste
Nikolay Nenoff: The album of the Confectionery Cooperative in Ruse. Aspects of propaganda in the daily round
Anton Angelov: An illustrated history of the incorrect entertainment - Bulgaria, late 1940s-1960s
Mira Markova: Bulgarian Rock Music from 80s- the Others in “sterile” cultural environment
Emilia Karaboeva: Beyond the Iron Curtain. Travel Stories of the Bulgarian International Truck Drivers
Lilly Uslow: The postcard: a visual and textual form of communication between the otherness and the identity
Milena Marinova: Presentation of “the ideal” and “the other” models of family formation in Bulgarian films of the 1970s
Ilia Iliev: Still Men: Self-representation of old men in Bulgaria in 1970s
Discussion
14.30-16.00 LUNCH BREAK
16.00-17.00 PANEL 11: IMAGES OF THE “OTHER” EVERYDAY LIFE – Part II
Chair: Evgenia Troeva
Emil Antonov: The image of the Bulgarian pub in the national art space passing the boarders of two political systems in 1940-1950s
Valentina Vaseva: The other dead – the image of the “immortal” communist leaders in the media propaganda
Stelu Serban & Stefan Dorondel: The Geopolitical Imagination of the Catastrophes: Floods Come from the Other Side
Discussion
17.00-17.15 COFFEE BREAK
17.15-18.00 PANEL 12: IMAGES OF THE “OTHER” EVERYDAY LIFE – Part III
Chair: Evgenia Troeva
Ágota Lídia Ispán: Cultured Way of Life in the Hungarian-language Press
Liisi Laineste: Remembering WWII: Life stories in comic format
Discussion
20.00 OFFICIAL DINNER
Saturday, December 5, 2015
09.00-11.00 PANEL 13: “OTHERNESS OF THE PAST”
Chair: Petko Hristov
Evgenia Troeva: Representations of medieval past in socialist Bulgaria
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska: Historical reenactment on photography. Familiarizing otherness of the past
Tomislav Oroz: Historical Other as a Socialist Contemporary – Visual Representations of Historical Figure of Matija Gubec in Yugoslavia
Ivaylo Markov & Violeta Periklieva: Visualisation of policies of cultural memory construction
Vildane Özkan Ahmadian Dishkedouki: Imagery of Bulgarian Socialism in Memory of National Turkish Minority
Nikolay Vukov: Representation as Apotheosis, Mourning as Celebration: The “Other” Face of Death in Public Monuments of 1970s and 1980s in Bulgaria
Discussion
11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-12.30 FINAL DISCUSSION
Chair: Anelia Kasabova
12.30-14.00 LUNCH BREAK
14.00-18.00 VISIT OF THE MUSEUM OF SOCIALIST ART
