program

 

FRIDAY (November 30): 3:30-8 PM

 

Opening and Welcome 3:30 PM

 

#1 Film—Poland, Russia 4-6 PM

Chair & discussant: Lucy Fischer

Elżbieta Ostrowska, “Invisible Deaths. Women in Polish Cinema’s Representations of World War II”

Sasha Prokhorov, “She Defends His Motherland: The Myth of Mother Russia in Stalinist and Early Post-Stalinist Cinema”

Elena Baraban, “The Return of Mother Russia: Representations of Motherhood in Soviet Wartime Cinema"

 

Reception 6-8 PM

 

SATURDAY (December 1) 9–7 PM

#2 Film & TV—Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia 9-11 AM

Chair & discussant: Irina Makoveeva

Vitaly Chernetsky, “Annychka’s Anomaly: A Daughter’s Rebellion in a ‘Non-Soviet’ Soviet War Film”

Olga Klimova, “Loving and Fighting: Female Representations in Belarusian War Film from the 1950s-1980s” 

Elena Prokhorova, “Frontline Romance in the TV Series Four Tankmen and a Dog”

 

Break 11-11:15 AM

 

#3 Music—Poland, Russia 11:15-12:30 PM

Chair and discussant: Andrea Lanoux

Beth Holmgren, “War, Women and Song: The Case of Hanka Ordonówna”

Robert Rothstein, "Songs of Women Warriors and Women in Waiting"

 

Lunch 12:30-1:30 PM

 

#4 Graphics—Russia, Germany 1:30-3:30 PM

Chair and discussant: Stephen Norris

Susan Corbesero, “National Battle Sites: Female Images in Soviet Poster Propaganda, 1941-1945”

Helena Goscilo, “Graphic Womanhood under Fire”

Barbara McCloskey, “Propagandizing Woman: The Absent Presence of Women in Nazi Art during World War II”

 

Break 3:30-3:45 PM

 

#5 Literature—Poland, Russia 3:45-5:45 PM

Chair & discussant: Giuseppina Mecchia

Christopher Caes, “The World-War-II Diaries of Zofia Nałkowska and Maria
Dąbrowska”

Joanna Niżyńska/Stephanie Sandler: “Uprising/Blockade, Warsaw/Leningrad,
Poems/Prose”

Irina Sandomirskaia, “Womanness Lost and Regained: Talk and Power Games in Lidiia Ginzburg’s City of Hunger”

 

SUNDAY (December 2) 10-12 PM

#6 Verbal and Visual Discourse—Russia, Belorussia 10-12 PM

Chair and discussant: Jonathan Harris

Elena Gapova, “Women in War: The Politics of Memory in Belarus”

Oleg Riabov, “‘Fashistskie zhenshchiny, samki zverei’: Gendering the Enemy in Soviet Propaganda Discourse of the Great Patriotic War”

Tatiana Mikhailova & Mark Lipovetsky, “Flight without Wings: Symbolic Representation of Femininity and Its Collapse in Larisa Shepitko's Wings”

 

Closing remarks and lunch 12:00-1:30 PM