INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY SYMPOSIUM “THE EMERGENCE OF CINEMA AT THE IMPERIAL BORDERLANDS OF CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE”

2022 July 5, Tuesday, 10:00

Sinemateka (A. Goštauto 2, Vilnius) or online

INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY SYMPOSIUM “THE EMERGENCE OF CINEMA AT THE IMPERIAL BORDERLANDS OF CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE”

The REGISTRATION for online viewing is available on: http://symposium.zoomtv.lt/

Free of charge

In this one-day symposium, we will turn to the history of early and silent cinema of the Central-Eastern Europe. In the recent context of active discussions on the decolonisation of Eastern European culture and history, we will be paying greatest attention to the countries whose cinema history has been sparsely debated in the international historiography. We will consider the characteristics of the cinema of this region, the emergence and development of which depended on the empires, i.e., Russia, Habsburg. While trying to liberate ourselves from the unified concept of the Central-Eastern Europe, we will delve into the unique and highly diverse cinema history of Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and the Czech Republic. Judith Thissen (Utrecht university, the Netherlands), Oleksandr Teliuk, Anna Onufriienko (Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Ukraine), Łukasz Biskupski (University of Łódź, Poland), Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Martin Kos (Masaryk University, the Czech Republic), Inga Pērkone (Latvian Academy of Culture) will give their presentations on the topic.

The symposium has been organised by the media education and research centre Meno Avilys, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. The event will also be accompanied by free of charge live music and Ukrainian silent cinema events held under the Liubartas Bridge (Vilnius, Lithuania).

𝗔 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻: https://menoavilys.org/symposium