1916, CINEMA AND REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway,
25-27 May 2016
How have the 1916 Rising and other revolutions – from France, to Greece, Romania, Russia and Cuba – being depicted in cinema? What impact did the Rising have on early Irish cinema? What role did women play in the emergence of this cinema? These are some of the questions to be examined as part of a major international conference on 1916, Cinema and Revolution to be held from 25-27 May at NUI Galway.
This conference will consider aspects of the representation of the Rising, as well as other revolutionary moments in Irish and world history and will also feature screenings of films relevant to the conference theme. Plenary speakers will include leading experts on revolutionary and Irish cinema including: acclaimed filmmaker and academic Professor Michael Chanan, University of Roehampton; seminal film scholar Professor Charles Barr, Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia; leading authority on early Irish cinema Dr Denis Condon, Maynooth University; and prominent contributors to Irish film, theatre studies, and visual culture such as Dr Díóg O Connell, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology; Professor Adrian Frazier, Emeritus Professor, NUI Galway; and Dr Catherine Morris, University of Liverpool.
Further information: http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=463
Attendance at the conference and all related events is free and all queries should be directed to sean.crosson@nuigalway.ie or +353 (0)91 495687.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday 25th May
[All sessions in Huston Main unless otherwise indicated]
3.00 – 4.00 Registration (Q2)
4.00 – 4.15 Conference Welcome
4.15 – 5.45 Plenary Session 1
Chair: Seán Crosson
Pictures in Abeyance: Irish Cinema and the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising Denis Condon (Maynooth University) Ellen Sullivan and her Role in the Film Company of Ireland Díóg O’Connell (IADT)
6.00 – 7.00 Reception
7.00-8.30 Screening: Knocknagow (Fred O’Donovan, 1918) (accompanied by Morgan Cooke)
Thursday 26th May
9.30– 10.30 Plenary Session 2
Chair: Rod Stoneman
Erin Fettered; Erin Free Disappearances, silence and memory in Feminist Republican Tableaux Catherine Morris (University of Liverpool)
10.30 Tea/Coffee
10.45 – 12.45 Panel A: Language and Gender
Chair: Denis Condon
Reinterpreting the Rising: An examination of the dual language discourse in Mise Éire (1959) Aoife Whelan (University College Dublin) “Yous are all nicely shanghaied now”: Sean O’Casey and 1916 Caroline Elbay (Queen’s University Belfast) “So softly she came that her feet made no din”: the politics of memory and the gender divide in the Irish rebellion on screen Niamh McLoughlin (University of Limerick) Older than Ireland: Translating Edna O´Brien’s Ireland between screens and countries Zuzanna Sanches (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies) Panel B: Cinema, Audiences, and Revolution (Q1)
Chair: Conn Holohan
Managing 1916: The Role of Cinema
Roddy Flynn (Dublin City University)
Dublin Cinemas in 1916
Veronica Johnson
Challenging ‘Imperialist’ cinematography. IRA attacks on Dublin cinemas, 1925-1939 Donal Fallon (University College Dublin) Kinski Unbound: The Depiction of Anarchism in Doctor Zhivago (1965) Padraic Killeen (National University of Ireland, Galway)
12.45-1.45 Lunch
1.45– 3.45 Screening: 1916: The Irish Rebellion (Ruán Magan and Pat Collins, 2016) Followed by Q&A with Writer and Producer Bríona Nic Dhiarmada (University of Notre Dame).
Chair: Seán Crosson
3.45 Tea/Coffee
4.00 – 5.45 Plenary Session 3: The Plough and the Stars (John Ford, 1937) and 1916
Chair: Veronica Johnson
The Plough before the Stars and After
Adrian Frazier (Professor Emeritus, NUI Galway)
1916 and other cinematic risings
Charles Barr (Professor Emeritus, University of East Anglia)
6.00 Screening: The Plough and the Stars (John Ford, 1936)
8.00 Conference Dinner
Asian Tea House , Mary Street.
Friday 27th May
9.30 – 11.30 Panel C: Revolution, History and Myth
Chair: Charles Barr
Cinematic Representations of the Battle of the Alamo (1836) Harlan D. Whatley (Odessa College, Texas) Alexander the Great: Revolution between History and Myth Vangelis Makriyannakis (University of Edinburgh) Preconditions of Love and Hatred: Cinema, Revolution and Emotion Jennie Carlsten (Queen’s University Belfast) Typography at the birth of a nation Leon Butler (Galway Technical Institute) Panel D: Representing Revolution (Q1)
Chair: Díóg O Connell
Ah ça ira, ça ira! The French Revolution on screen Brigitte Bastiat, Eve Lamendour (Université de La Rochelle) Revolutionary Temporality in Peter Watkins’s La Commune (Paris, 1871) Michael Cramer (Sarah Lawrence College) Representations of a Revolution That Didn’t Happen: 23 August 1944 in the Films of the Romanian Socialist Era Gabriela Filippi (National University of Theatre and Film“I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest) The Russian Avant-garde as Otherness: Revolutionary Artists and the Khanty Tribe in Aleksey Fedorchenko’s Angels of Revolution (2014) Denis Saltykov (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.45 – 12.45 Plenary Session 4
Chair: Rod Stoneman
Cinema and Revolution in Cuba in the 1960s: Julio García Espinosa and ‘imperfect cinema’
Michael Chanan (University of Roehampton)
12.45 Lunch
2.0 – 4 Screening: The American Who Electrified Russia (Michael Chanan, 2009)
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Dr. Seán Crosson,
Programme Director
M.A. in Film Studies: Theory and Practice, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Tel: + 353 (0) 91 495687
http://www.filmschool.ie/staff/sean.crosson
https://nuigalway.academia.edu/SeánCrosson
Co-Director, 1916, Cinema and Revolution International Conference, 25-27 May 2016
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