23 Mar, 2010
Audiovisual Media and Identity in Southeastern Europe
Posted by: Eckehard Pistrick In: // Congresses|News
Conference in Wittenberg (Germany), Stiftung LEUCOREA
8. bis 10. April 2010
The conference „Audiovisual Media and Identity in Southeastern Europe“ is a first attempt to find an alternative to text-based scholarly approaches to the issue of identity in Southeastern Europe, to break the medial one-dimensionality dictated by textuality and shift the focus to the aural and visual dimensions of identity.
Identity in Southeastern Europe will be examined by means of its media of communication, specifically that of the photographic image and the sound recording. Brought to a point, the primary issue is one of how people perceive themselves and their environment on the basis of communication media, or, as Kelly Askew put it in her introduction to anthropology of media, the question is one of “what meanings people construct out of mass mediated images and sounds.”
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Conference Program
08. April 2010
Greeting and Keynote 18:00-19:30
Prof. Dr. Gretel Schwörer-Kohl, Halle
Prof. Dr. Angela Richter, Halle
Prof. Dr. Nicola Scaldaferri, Milan: Keynote Address
09. April 2010
Session 1. 9:00 -10:30 History of Photography in SEE
Christian Marchetti, Tübingen: Volkskundliche Bilder aus dem Südosten
Prof. Jean-Paul Champseix, Paris: The prohibited modernity – Social Realism and Propaganda Photography
Session 2. 10:45 -13:00 History of Sound in SEE
Prof. Dr. Sokol Shupo, Tirana: Strategies of Banning and Promoting Folklore and Classical Music in Communist Albania
Dr. Ana Hofman, Ljubljana: Performing the Traditional Folklore: Micronarratives of Socialist Folklorization
Dr. Veselka Toncheva, Sofia: Bulgarische Volksmusik im Nationalen Fernsehen – audiovisuelle Formen der Identitätskonstruktion
Session 3. 14:00 -16:15 Approaches to the Visual in SEE
Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Cagliari: Capturing War in Images: On local photo-exhibitions in Northern Greece
Daniel Suber PhD, Slobodan Karamanic, Konstanz: The Visual between Norm and Excess: Everyday life modes of Cultural Transmission in Post-Socialist Serbia
Nela Milic, London: Balkanizing Taxonomies
Session 4.16:30 -18:00 Staging Sound in the Mediterranean
Prof. Dr. Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Paris: The feast as musical contest : some specific situations in Morocco, Sardinia, Romania and Albania
Prof. Dr. Panos Panopoulos, Mytilini: Noisy images, Colorful sounds: Representing the senses of the carnival body
Preview Film Premiere: “Skyros Carnival” (2010) by Steven Feld
Films and discussion:
20:30-22:00
Albania-Greece: “Chant du pays perdu” (Song of the lost country) (2006) by Bernard Lortat-Jacob and Helene Delaporte
Bulgaria: “Pisanata Bulka” (The painted bride) (2008) by Veselka Toncheva
Italy: “Vjesh/Canto” (Song) (2007) by Rosella Schillaci (ethnomusicological research Nicola Scaldaferri)
10. April 2010
Session 5. 8:30 -10:45 Interpreting Visuality
Dr. Gilles de Rapper, Anouk Durand, Aix-en-Provence/Paris: Family photographs and families of photographers: State photography and the private sphere in communist Albania
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Southampton: Cretan Postcards and Reality
Andreas Hemming, Halle: Exhibiting Culture – Images of Albania
Session 6. 11:00 – 13:15 Linking sound, emotions and the Past in SEE
Yves Defrance, Rennes: The construction of identity in Corsica and Bulgaria in the light of ethnomusicological research
Eckehard Pistrick, Halle: Weeping or Dancing? – Remembering Migration and Ethnomusicology in South Albanian villages
Eran Livni, Bloomington: Why Was Iordan Not Interested in Pictures of Dancing Gypsies? – Bulgarian Popfolk Music in the Discourse of Modern Europe
For information and pre-registration, please contact:
Eckehard Pistrick: eckehard.pistrick [at] musikwiss.uni-halle.de
or
Andreas Hemming: andreas.hemming [at] musikwiss.uni-halle.de
