9:30 am – Breakfast

9:30 am – Breakfast

Arrival to Princeton, NJ

10-11:30 am

The Eastern Turn: Contemporary Screen Cultures

Balazs Varga, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Imagined socialism: re-politicization of Eastern European socialism in contemporary screen culture

Joanna Rydzewska, Swansea University, UK

A Postsecular Approach to Eastern European Cinema: A Change of Paradigm?

Volha Isakava, Central Washington University

Not Interested in History: Belarusian Terminal Cinema

10-11:30 am

Digital Combats: Eastern European Cinema and New Media

Sue Matheson, University College of the North, Canada

GoPro + Cruelty: spectatorship and the theatre of war in Yevhen Titarenko and Vitaliy Mansky’s Eastern Front (2023)

Zdenko Mandušić,

University of Toronto

Intimate War Footage in Eastern European Media Cultures, Film Theory, and History

Alyssa Virker,

Stanford University

Taras Shevchenko is Alive on TikTok: Poetry Videos as a Form of Resistance During the War

11:30am-12pm

Coffee break

11:30am-12pm

Coffee break

12-1:30 pm

Documentary in the Time of War: Witnessing, Advocating, Narrating

Masha Shpolberg,

Bard College

From the Frontlines to the Screen: Reinventing the War Documentary in Ukraine

Anastasia Kostina,

Yale University

The Reality of War: Russian Documentary about Ukraine

Anna Tropnikova,

Yale University

Filmed Objects as Subjects: Representation of Survivors in Donbas Documentary

11:30 – 1 pm

Flickering Pain: Screening Trauma

Dijana Jelača, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Screening Memories in Yugoslav Trauma Cinema

Emily-Rose Baker,

University of Southampton, UK

Documentary witnessing and multidirectional trauma in transnational Ukrainian cinema: The Earth is Blue as an Orange (2020) and Babyn Yar (2021)

Olga Blackledge,

University of Pittsburgh

“The Release is Postponed until Our Victory”: Contemporary Ukrainian Animation

1:30-2:30 pm – Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm – Lunch

2:30-3:15 pm

Keynote speech

Aniko Imre, University of Southern California

Geopolitical Worldbuilding and National History in the Post-Soviet Media Industries

2:30-3:15 pm

Closing Plenary

Birgit Beumers,

Aberystwyth University, UK

Unframing cinema

3:20-4 pm

Roundtable with the film directors led by

Yuri Shevchuk,

Columbia University

4-7 pm – Screening of “Butterfly Vision” (2022), 1h 47m

the Garden Theater

Q&A with the film director Maksym Nakonechnyi

4 pm

Welcome Remarks

Yuri Leving,

Princeton University

Coffee break

4:15-5 pm

Opening Plenary

Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire

Canonization of Eastern European and Soviet Films

4:30-6 pm

Weapons of Propaganda: Cinema as Ideology

Alexander Rojavin,

Deft9 Solutions, Inc.

Helen Haft, The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

Post-Soviet Russian Cinema as a Key Battleground in the Kremlin’s Information War

Sergey Toymentsev,

Saint Louis University

Cheburashka as Transitional Object

Daria Ezerova,

University of Cambridge

Toward an Affective Historicism: History as Sound and Fury in Balagov’s Beanpole

7:15 pm – Reception

5-6 pm

Tender Resistance: Female Voices

Justin Wilmes, East Carolina University,

Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak,

Adam Mickiewicz University

Approaching War Anew: Female Filmmakers of New East European Cinema

Irina Schulzki, University of Hagen, Germany

The Occupied Body: Women in Ukrainian and Russian War Feature Films Between Trauma and Empowerment

6-7 pm – Dinner

6-7 pm – Dinner

7 pm – Screening of “Klondike” (2022),

1h 40m

Garden Theater

Q&A with the film director Maryna Er Gorbach

7 pm – Screening of “Eastern Front” (2023),

1h 38m

Campus Theater

Q&A with the film director Vitaly Mansky