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Conference Program
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Tuesday,
June 3, 2008
Mexico Building, Room 206a
09:30-10:00 Greetings
Raanan
Rein – Vice
Rector, Tel Aviv University
Hannah
Naveh –
Dean, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Daniel
Milo – Director
of the Jerusalem Centre for Ethics
Nurit
Gertz –
Colloquium Committee; Head of the Film Studies Program, Tel Aviv
University
10:00-11:30 Ethics at the Crossroads
Chair: Nitzan
Ben-Shaul (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Judd
Ne'eman (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
"Between
Scylla and Charybdis" - The
Future under the Eyes of the Heinous Past
Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
Art
and Occupation: Image Constellations from
the Border-Landscapes between Israel
and Palestine
Nurit Gertz (The
Open University; Head of
Film Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Gal Hermoni (Tel
Aviv University, Israel)
Ethics and National Revival: The Memory of 1948 in
Israeli Cinema
11:30-11:45
Coffee Break
11:45-13:45
The Engaged Camera
Chair: Freddie
Rokem (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Linda Dittmar (University
of Massachusetts,
Boston,
USA)
Contested
Landscapes: The Rhetoric of the Image
and its Burdens
Anat Zanger (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
The
Event and the Responsibility of the Image
Sandra Meiri (The
Open University, Israel)
The
Ethics of Judd Ne'eman's Camera: From The
Night the King Was Born to Nuzhat Al-Fuad
Idit Alphandary (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
The
Moral Imperative of Images in Sontag and
Godard
13:45-15:00
Lunch
15:00-17:00 Between
Word and
Image
Chair: Judd
Ne'eman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Daniel
Dayan (CNRS/
Institut d’Études
Politiques, France)
Regarding,
Disregarding: the Ethical Framing of
Visibility
Odeya Kohen Raz (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
The
Ethical Act of Reestablishing the Connection
between Sign and Referent in Spielberg’s Schindler’s
List
Boaz Hagin (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
How
to Watch a Film Foreign-Languagely: Ethics
and Translation
Guy Fihman (Université
Paris 8, France)
On
the Question of Ethics in Film Restoration
(In
French with English translation)
17:00-17:15
Coffee Break
17:15-19:00
Jews and
German Culture: From Prosperity to Holocaust
Chair: José
Brunner (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Claudine Eizykman (Université
Paris 8, France)
"Justement
une image"
(In
French with English translation)
Frank Stern (University of
Vienna, Austria)
Visual
Acculturation: Vienna
as the Cradle of Jewish Film
Ilan Avisar (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
The
Image of the Unimaginable: Holocaust Visual
Sources and Moral Considerations
Wednesday,
June 4, 2008
Mexico Building, Room 206a
09:45-11:30
Media and the
Witnessing of History
Chair: Shulamit
Volkov (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Janet Walker (University
of California,
Santa
Barbara, USA)
Moving
Testimonies: Critical Site-Seeing in
Holocaust and Other Documentaries of Return
Günter Thomas (Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, Germany)
The
Necessary Impossibility of Representing
History on TV: Ethical Observations
Menahem Blondheim (The
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel)
Testimony,
Transformation and Televised Reality
11:30-11:45 Coffee
Break
11:45-13:15
The Ethics of
Seeing Others on the Screen
Chair: Tamar
Liebes (The
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel)
Paul Frosh (The
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel)
Indifferent
Images and Everyday World-Witnessing
Amit Pinchevski (The
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel) and Roy
Brand (Sarah Lawrence College, USA)
Doubleface:
Representation in an Ethical
Register
Zohar Kampf (The
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel)
Contested
Images: Why News Photography is No
Guarantee for Telling "The Truth" of What Happened
13:15-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:00
The Ambiguity
of Ethics
Chair: Sandra
Meiri (The
Open University, Israel)
Kristian Feigelson (Université
Paris
3, France)
Cinematic
Archives and the Rereading of European
History: Testimony, Memory and Ethics
Mihal Friedman (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
Description
of a Struggle (Chris
Marker, 1961): Between
Essay and Midrash
Eldad Kedem (The
Open University, Israel)
Second
Generation of Kibbutz Films: The Untold
Story of a Life Being Lived
16:00-16:15
Coffee Break
16:15-17:15
Keynote
Speaker
Chair: Mihal
Friedman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Bill Nichols (San Francisco
State University, USA)
Regarding
Ethics
17:15-17:30
Coffee Break
17:30-19:30
Doctoral
Student Panel
Chair: Boaz
Hagin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Anat Biger (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
Unreliable
Narrators
Erez Dvora (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
Moral
Ambivalence and the Sensing of Fascist
Aesthetics
Anna Magdalena Elsner (University of
Cambridge, UK)
Ethics
of Representation or Aesthetics of
Investigation? The Meta-Narrative in Shoah
Tobias Ebbrecht (HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg,
Germany)
History
in the Age of Digital Reproduction and
the Problems of Ethics and Judging
Thursday,
June 5, 2008
Mexico Building, Room 206a
09:45-11:30
Contested
Pasts
Chair: Jerome
Bourdon (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Anton Kaes (University
of California,
Berkeley,
USA;
The Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies Scholar, 2007-2008)
Between
Paradise
and Apocalypse: On Werner Herzog and German History
Raya Morag (The
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel)
Post-Trauma,
Post-Queer: The Hitlerian Imago and
the New German Cinema
Yael Munk (The
Open University, Israel)
The
Only Possible Way to Visualize History? On
Lars von Trier's Zentropa
11:30-11:45 Coffee
Break
11:45-13:45 Aesthetics,
Ethics, Politics
Chair: Orly
Lubin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Thomas Elsaesser (University
of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands)
"Éthique
hard" and "Éthique
soft": Contemporary Cinema in Light of Jacques Rancière's
Distinction
Gertrud Koch (Freie
Universität
Berlin, Germany)
Ethics,
Politics and the Law in Ford's The
Man Who Shot Liberty
Valence
Philip Rosen (Brown University,
USA)
Aesthetics
and the Fate of the Political in
Eisenstein's Later Writings
13:45-15:00 Lunch
15:00-17:00 War and Terror
Chair: Yoram
Peri (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Nitzan Ben-Shaul (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
The
Incitement Frame in Israeli and Palestinian
Television Reports on the Second Intifada Violence
Ronie Parciack (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
Communal
Violence and Fascination: Reflections
on the Works of Mani Ratnam
Khalil Rinnawi (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
Ethics
and Censorship: The Case of the Satellite
Media in the Arab World
Meir Wigoder (Sapir
College; Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
Camera-Ethics:
Looking at Ourselves through the
Other's Gaze
17:00-17:15
Coffee Break
17:15-19:15 German Cinema:
Victims and Perpetrators
Chair: Ilan
Avisar (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Moshe Zimmermann (The
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel)
Victims,
Perpetrators, Spectators: The German
Film during and after the Third Reich
Ofer Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
The
Debate Regarding the German Responsibility
for the Outbreak of World War I in pre-Nazi War Films
Nitzan Lebovic (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
The
German 1920s and Current Political Cinema
Lihi Nagler (Tel Aviv University; Sapir
College, Israel)
(T)error
in Post-Wall German Cinema: Andreas
Baader as the Last Action Hero of the ‘68 Generation
Friday, June 6,
2008
The Third Ear (48 Hamelech George St., Tel Aviv)
Open to colloquium participants only.
10:30-13:30
Conflicting
Narratives
Presentation
and Chair: Mustafa
Kabha (The
Open University, Israel)
Screenings and open discussion in the presence
of the filmmakers:
‘Arus
al Jalil (Bride of the Galilee),
dir. Basel Tannous, prod. Eytan Harris,
2006.
Jerusalem Cuts, dir.
Liran Atzmor, prod.
Noemi Schory and Itay Ken Tor, Belfilms, 2008.
Colloquium
Committee:
Nitzan
Ben-Shaul, Mihal Friedman, Nurit Gertz,
Boaz Hagin, Tamar Liebes, Sandra Meiri, Judd Ne'eman, Raz Yosef, Anat
Zanger
Colloquium
Managers:
Nir
Ferber, Noa Regev
Special thanks to:
Liran
Atzmor for the images from his film Jerusalem
Cuts
This colloquium has been
enabled through the generous contributions of the following
organizations:
The
Karin Brandauer Chair for Visiting
Professors in Theatre, Film and Television
The
Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics
and Society
The
Rothschild
Caesarea
School
of Communication
The
Open University of Israel
The
Porter Institute for Poetics & Semiotics
The
Minerva Institute for German History
The
Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of
Advanced Studies
The
Emanuel Herzikowitz Chair for 19th and 20th
Century Art
Ambassade
de France en Israël
Israel
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Call for
papers for
the Seventh Tel-Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema Studies (2008)
(pdf).
Program for
the Sixth Tel-Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and
Television Studies (2006) (pdf).
Selected papers from the Sixth Tel-Aviv
International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies appear in
Framework, 49-1 (Spring 2008).
Email: cineconf@post.tau.ac.il
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