PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Day 1: Friday, 29 November

13:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

14:00 Panel 1: (Post)socialist Television

Chair: Petra Hanáková (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Irena Reifová (Charles University, Czech Republic)Limiting the Producer’s Intentions: How Audiences Understood the Political Meanings of Czechoslovak Television Serials during Normalization

Jakub Korda (Palacký University, Czech Republic)The Television Title Sequence as a Tool for the Articulation of Authorship

Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough University, UK)The Working-Class as the Author: Participation, Authority, and Control in Socialist Yugoslavia

Dana Mustata (University of Groningen, Netherlands)Transnational Labour and Programme-Making in Early Romanian Television

Kateryna Khinkulova (Birkbeck College, UK)Authors of Change: Building Up Television’s Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine against the Backdrop of Russian Presence

Respondent: Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

16:30 Keynote 1

Chair:Michael N. Goddard (University of Salford, UK)

András Bálint Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) Shot Scale Distribution and Authorship

Coffee Break

18:15 Panel 2: Radical Authorship

Chair: Irena Reifová (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Petra Hanáková (Charles University, Czech Republic)Female Authorship and the Feminist Aesthetic in Central European Cinema

Michael N. Goddard (University of Salford, UK)Transgressive Film Authorship across National Borders: The Case of Andrzej Żuławski

Balázs Varga (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary):Auteurs as Brands: Béla Tarr, his Films, the Critics, and the Audiences

Respondent: Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough University, UK)

20:30 Joint Dinner and Drinks

Day 2: Saturday, 30 November

09:30 Keynote 2

Chair:Veronika Klusáková (Palacký University, Czech Republic)

Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, UK) "The Past Is a Foreign Country?": (Re)creating Vanished Worlds in European Production Design

Coffee Break

11:15 Panel 3: Cultural Movements and the Politics of (Trans)nationality

Chair: Marcin Adamczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

Francesco Pitassio (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy)"I Didnʼt Do It!": Authorship, Realism, and Socialism - Italian Neorealism Goes East

Francesco di Chiara (University of Ferrara, Italy)Masters and Rogues: Issues of Authorship in Italian and Yugoslav Film Co-Productions of the 1970s

Constantin Parvulescu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)The Question of Authorship in Socialist-Realist Film

Olof Hedling (Lund University, Sweden)An Authoring Discourse of Sorts: Effects of Public Film Support on a National Cinema

Respondent: Sergei Kapterev (Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow, Russia)

13:15 Lunch

14:45 Panel 4: Group and Institutionalized Authorship

Chair:Francesco Pitassio (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy)

Sergei Kapterev (Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow, Russia)The Film Career of Mikhail Kalatozov as a Symbiosis of Auteurist Aspirations and Soviet "Corporate" Knowledge

Maria Belodubrovskaya (Wisconsin University, Madison, USA)Plotlessness: Lessons in Soviet Screenwriting

Gabrielle Chomentowski (Sciences Po Paris, France)The Individual against the Collective in the Soviet Cinema Industry: Theory against Practice

Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)Film Units as (Sub)producers: Possibilities of a "House Style" in the State-socialist Mode of Production

Respondent: Constantin Parvulescu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)

Coffee Break

17:00 Keynote 3

Chair: Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Dina Iordanova (University of St. Andrews, UK) Oscars® Little Brothers: Europe and the Politics of Invisibility

19:00 Panel Discussion: Challenges of and opportunities for collaborative research on East and Central European media industries

Chair: Dana Mustata (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

21:00 Reception

Day 3: Sunday, 1 December

09:30 Panel 5: Trapped in History: Production and Reading of Authorial Style

Chair: Lucie Česálková (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Radomír Kokeš (Masaryk University, Czech Republic):Karel Lamač et al: The Classical Style as a Minor Tendency in the Czech Silent Cinema?

Marcin Adamczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland):Surfing on Circumstances: An Author in Socialist State Cinema - The Case of Andrzej Wajda’s Movies in the 1950s

Milan Hain (Palacký University, Czech Republic)Exiled in Hollywood: Hugo Haas and his Independent Production Company

Grażyna Świętochowska (University of Gdańsk, Poland)Into the Machine of the Market: The Way the DVD Covers Speak

Respondent: Miroslaw Przylipiak (University of Gdańsk, Poland)

Coffee Break

11:15 Panel 6: Political History, Authorship, and Nonfiction

Chair: Balázs Varga (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

Miroslaw Przylipiak (University of Gdańsk, Poland)The Nature of Authorship in Documentary Cinema

Mária Ferenčuhová (Academy of Performing Arts, Slovakia)The Authors Normalized: Slovak Short Documentaries, 1970-73

Lucie Česálková (Masaryk University, Czech Republic):"No Maps, No Lyrics - I am the Director of this Movie": Short Film, Contracts, and Negotiation

Respondent:Francesco Pitassio (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy)

12:45 Lunch

14:15 Industry Panel: Producers’ Authorship

Chair: Petr Bilík (Palacký University, Czech Republic)