The story of cinema is open-ended. Transformations in the social and intellectual landscape are reshaping the way we think about film and its history. This conference will explore the following themes:
Thursday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m.
School of the Art Institute Building, 112 South Michigan Avenue, Room 1307
Roundtable: The Achievements and Challenges of Film Histories as We Have Known Them
Chair: Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, 2006
University of Illinois at Chicago, 750 South Halsted, Room 605 Student Center East
Friday, April 7, 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Historiographic Issues
Moderator: Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jane Gaines, Duke University
"Reading World Film History for the Plot"
Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago
"Statistics and Internet in the Service of a Globalized Film History"
Friday 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Production: Authorship and Industry
Moderator: James Lastra, University of Chicago
Chon Noriega, University of California, Los Angeles
"Efrain Gutierrez as a Representative of Bi-National Regional Cinema"
Kathleen McHugh, University of California, Los Angeles
"Jane Campion as a Transnational Auteur"
Don Crafton, University of Notre Dame
"Puppets in Shadows: Animation in Europe"
Friday, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Reaching Audiences: Exhibition, Distribution and Reception
Moderator: Chuck Kleinhans, Norwestern University
Jan Olsson, Stockholm University; Visiting Professor at Northwestern University
"Pellucid Screens/Rackety Streets-Another Look at Early Film Exhibition"
Greg Waller, Indiana University
"Globalism and the Circulation of Foreign Films on the Non-Theatrical Market"
Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California
"The Cannes Film Festival: Marketing Cosmopolitanism"
Keynote: Friday at 4:30 p.m.
Jeffrey Berg, Chairman and CEO, International Creative Management, Los Angeles
"Film and National Identity"
Saturday, April 8, 2006
University of Illinois at Chicago, 750 South Halsted, Room 605 Student Center East
Saturday, April 8, 9:30 -11:30 a.m.
Nationalism, Coming or Going? Part I
Moderator: Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago
Hamid Naficy, Rice University
"Transnationalism in Early Iranian Culture"
David Desser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Globalization Across Asia"
Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Globalism and French Cinema: Then and Now"
Saturday, 1:00-3:30 p.m.
Nationalism, Coming or Going? Part II
Moderator: E. Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook University
Angelo Restivo, Georgia State University
"The Historical Image in Recent Italian Cinema: Italy and the World"
Frances Gateward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Waiting to Exhale: Representation of the Korean Colonial Experience and the Trouble with 'My Own Breathing' "
Christine Gledhill
"Rethinking the National of British Cinema"
Ravi S. Vasudevan, The Sarai Program: City/Media/Public Domain, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
"The Changing Global Contours of Indian Cinema: 'Bollywood,' 'Pirate'
Video and Contemporary Film Culture"
Keynote: Saturday at 4:00 p.m.
Manthia Diawara, New York University
"The Global Imaginary in Nigerian Video Films"
Sunday, April, 9, 2006 at 9:30 a.m.
University of Illinois at Chicago, 701 South Morgan, Institute for the Humanities, lower level Stevenson Hall
Roundtable: What Should A History of Global Cinema Look Like?
Co-chairs: Virginia Wright Wexman, Sara Hall
Christine Gledhill, Kathleen McHugh, Hamid Naficy, Chon Noriega, Greg Waller
Conference Organizing Committee: Virginia Wright Wexman, English Department; Sara Hall, Germanic Studies Department; Mary Beth Rose, Institute for the Humanities, English Department; and Linda Vavra, Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
For further information, contact: Linda Vavra 312/996-6354; fax 312/996-2938; email lvavra@uic.edu
Rooms are reserved at:
The Best Western Grant Park Hotel
1100 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL. 60605
Ph : 312-922-2900
fax: 312-922-8812
This block will be held until February 19, 2006 for the dates April 6-9, 2005, at a cost of $129 per night (single/double) plus 15.4% occupancy tax. Rooms are referenced under "Film Conference."
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL. 60603
Ph : 312-726-7500
This block will be held until March 6, 2006 for the dates April 6-9, 2005, at a cost of $159 per night plus 15.4% occupancy tax. Rooms are referenced under "Film History."
The University of Illinois at Chicago is a short public transit or taxi ride from the hotels. Dormitory lodging is not available.
“Globalism and Film History: A Conference”
April 6-9, 2006
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago is located southwest of the intersection of the Kennedy Expressway and Eisenhower Expressways.
Friday and Saturday sessions (April 7-8) will take place at 750 South Halsted, Student Center East, Room 605, marked with a green circle on the map.
The Sunday Roundtable (April 9) will take place at 701 South Morgan in The Institute for the Humanities on the lower level of Stevenson Hall, marked with a red circle.
Parking is available on the UIC campus in the lots labeled PCF, HRPS, and HLPS.
Please note: The Thursday Roundtable will take place at the School of the Art Institute Building, 112 South Michigan Avenue, Room 1307. This site is not on the UIC campus and is not marked on the map.
Please contact the Institute for the Humanities with questions about directions or location: 312/996-6352 or 996-6354 and huminst@uic.edu.
