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Mgr. et Mga. Tereza Czesany Dvořáková Ph.D.


TCD pasovy formatAffiliation / Profession: Head of special collections, research, and information in National Film Archive Prague

Research interests: History of Czech and German cinematography (esp. film institutions), production studies, economic history of film, local film history, Czech-German film relations, Nazi film and cultural policy in Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and in other occupied areas of Europe. Contemporary film practice and film (cultural) policy, history of Czech film production and producers.

Current research project: Bohemian-Moravian Film Chamber (1941-1945)

Latest publications:

Elmar Klos a zestátnění československé kinematografie. In: Jan Lukeš (ed.): Černobílý snář Elmara Klose. Praha: Národní filmový archiv 2011, 51-67.

Česká kinematografie v průniku totalit. Dis-/kontinuita vývoje českého poválečného filmu.In: Od svobody k nesvobodě 1945-1956. Praha: Vojenský historický ústav 2011, 38-47.

Marriages (not only) of convenience: history in Czech Television & television in Czech history. In: Pierre Sorlin et al: History on television in seven Eastern European countries. La Storia in televisione in sette paesi dell´Europa dell´Est. Bologna: Istituto Storico Parri Emilia-Romagna 2010, 65-92 /71-100/.

Českomoravské filmové ústředí jako ambivalentní pilíř protektorátní kinematografie. In: Protektorát v sociokulturních souvislostech. Hradec Králové: Univerzita HK 2009, 43–67.

Marketa Lazarová v zrcadle produkčních dokumentů Filmového studia Barrandov. In: Marketa Lazarová. Studie a dokumenty. Praha: CASABLANCA – Václav Žák 2009, 51–75.

Třináct minut protektorátní idyly. Reportáž z Filmových žní 1941 a co v ní není. In: Film a dějiny 2. Adolf Hitler a ti druzí – filmové obrazy zla. Praha: Casablanca – ÚSTR 2009, 174–1845.

Klasifikace audiovizuálních produktů podle věkových hranic v zemích Evropské unie.Praha: CEMES FSV UK 2009, 33 s. /research study for Ministry of Culture, co-author David Czesany/.

Koncepce klasifikace audiovizuálních produktů podle věkových skupin. Závěrečná zpráva o řešení projektu.Praha: CEMES FSV UK 2009, 83 s. /final research study for Ministry of Culture, co-author prof. Jan Jirák/.

Prag-Film AG 1941-1945. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Protektorats- und Reichs-Kinematografie.Muenchen: edition text + kritik 2008, 212 pages /introduction by doc. PhDr. Ivan Klimeš/.

Im Prager Spannungsfeld. Machtstrukturen der Kinematografie im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. In: Johannes Roschlau (ed.): Zwischen Barrandov und Babelberg. Deutsch-tschechische Filmbeziehungen im 20.Jahrhundert. Muenchen: edition text + kritik 2008, 84-93.

Contact: tereza.dvorakova@nfa.cz

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Dr. Jeremy Hicks


DSC01656Affiliation / Profession: Reader (Associate Professor) in Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London

Research interests: Russian and Soviet Documentary Film; Representation of World War Two and the Holocaust in Soviet Film

Current research project: 

Iconic Images: The Making and Shaping of Soviet Memory of WWII through Images

Latest publications: 

First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-46 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012)

Contact: e-mail j.g.hicks@qmul.ac.uk

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Prof. Jindřich Toman

Affiliation/Profession: Dr.phil, Professor of Germanic and Slavic Philology in Center for Russian and East European Studies (University of Michigan), Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Slavic Languages & Literatures

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Research interests: Slavic linguistics and Czech literature

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Latest publications:
Foto/montáž tiskem – Photo/Montage in Print. Praha: Kant. (The Modern Czech Book, 2.)
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Conditions of Inclusion: Bohemia’s Jews and their Nineteenth Century
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Clean Books: Abstract and Functional Book Design in Interwar Czechoslovakia. Prague:
Kant, in preparation. (The Modern Czech Book, 4.)

Contact: ptydepe@umich.edu

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Prof. Ursula von Keitz

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Affiliation / Profession: Dr. phil., Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz. From October 2014 on Professor of Film Research and Education at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf“ as well as Director of the Filmmuseum Potsdam.

Research interests: Aesthetics and History of Film, Film Censorship, Theory of the Cinematic Space, Film Narratology, Aesthetics of Documentary Film, Cinema and Cultural Memory, Problems and Methods of Critical Film Edition

Current research project: Since 2012 (with K. Hoffmann and Th. Weber) co-leader of the long-term research project „History of Documentary Film in Germany 1945-2005“, financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and member of the DFG Research Network „Cinema as an Experience Space“.

Latest publications:
Mediale Transformationen des Holocausts(Ed., with Th. Weber). Berlin 2014 (2nd edition).
Der geteilte Himmel (The Divided Heaven, GDR 1964, Konrad Wolf). In: Joseph Garncarz, Annemone Ligensa (Eds.): 24 Frames.The Cinema of Germany. London/NewYork: Wallflower2012, pp. 149-158.
„Referenz und Imagination im Dokumentarfilm“. In: J. Hanich/ H.J. Wulff (Eds.): Auslassen Andeuten Auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers. München 2012, pp. 161-180.
„Historisch-kritische Filmedition. Ein interdisziplinäres Szenario“. In: Editio 27/2013, pp. 15-37.

Contact: ursula.von-keitz@uni-konstanz.de

 

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Dr. Karel Margry

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Affiliation / Profession: Historian, Editor of After the Battle magazine (www.afterthebattle.com)

 Research interests: The Second World War in all its aspects

Current research project:The battle of Stalingrad (and various other projects for After the Battle), Theresienstadt propaganda movies (long-term on-going research)

Latest publications:
The Siegfried Line, in After the Battle No. 163 (February 2014) p. 2-55
The Sarajevo Assassination, in After the Battle No. 164 (May 2014) p. 2-25
Operation Rösselsprung’. The airborne raid on Tito’s HQ, in After the Battle No. 165 (August 2014) p. 2-38

Contact: kmargry@casema.nl

 

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Prof. Irina Sandomirskaja

 

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Affiliation / Profession: professor of cultural studies at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies at Södetörn university (Sweden)

Research interests:  history and theory of Soviet politics and biopolitics in everyday life, literature, film, and philosophy, and especially in language

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Latest publications:
Sandomirskaja Irina: Blokada v slove: ocherki kriticheskoi teorii i biopolitiki iazyka, Moscow: NLO, 2013, awarded the 2013 Andrei Bely Prize)

Contact: irina.sandomirskaja@sh.se

 

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Director Juraj Herz in Terezín

We are delighted to welcome director Juraj Herz as a special guest of our conference. Herz`s feature film debut is regarded as the best film adaptation of Hrabal`s prose: Sběrné surovosti / Scrap Brutalities (1965).The darkly absurd Spalovač mrtvol / The Cremator followed in 1968.

2909_kat_transport_z_raje On Saturday, Sept 6, we will show the film Transport z ráje / Transport from Paradise (1962), directed by Zbyněk Brynych, based on book and script of former inmate of the ghetto, Czech novelist Arnošt Lustig. Juraj Herz, himself a survivor of the Holocaust, not only acted in this early nouvelle vague film about Terezín but also influenced the making of it – as Brynych`s assistant.

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Conference in Terezín: „Films from Ghettos and Camps: Propaganda – Clandestine messages – Historical source”

We kindly invite you to the international conference in Terezín! 

Date:  4-7 September 2014

Terezín Memorial – Magdeburg Barracks, Tyršova 204  TEREZÍN, CZ 

This unique event provides an international forum for a debate on the films made in concentration camps and ghettos in the “3rd Reich”. Propaganda films were shot in the occupied territories such as Poland as early as 1939. A very special location was the so called ghetto of Theresienstadt, the “Hollywood of Concentration Camps” as described by Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler. Inmates (Irena Dodalová & Kurt Gerron) as well as free individuals (Karel Pečený, director of the Czech newsreels company Aktualita) were commissioned to direct and produce these films.

European and American scholars will address questions of exploitation, collaboration, the circulation of these films and how they are understood today. To spark a discussion of the comparative aspect of the ghetto films we decided to choose a former ghetto in Central Europe as our venue. The conference will take place in the Magdeburg Barracks in cooperation with the Memorial Terezín (Památník Terezín).

Events include: A roundtable on “Compromised Films” with Czech and international participants, visit to the exhibition “Truth and Lies” (curated by the Jewish Museum Prague and National Film Archive) in the Magdeburg Baracks in Terezín, tour of the film locations and screenings of the Theresienstadt ghetto films (1942-1945).

The conference language is English.

The capacity of the conference hall is limited, so there is a need to register.

If any questions, please contact us.

We are looking forward to seeing you!