Balkan and Central Asian Women Filmmakers: Finding Their Own Voices in Post-Socialist Cinema

September 29 - October 1, 2017
Keynote speaker: Yana Hashamova, 
Chair, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
What is Women's Cinema and How Does it Look in the Balkans and Central Asia?"

Round Table Facilitator:
Nancy Condee
Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Guest Speaker:
Sunnie Rucker-Chang
Assistant Professor of Slavic, Director, European Studies, Department of German Studies, University of Cincinnati

Guest Speaker:
Ingeborg Bratoeva- Daraktchieva
Screen Studies Department, Institute for Art Studies, Bulgaria

 

Friday, September 29
Keynote Address

Yana Hashamova
4pm in Frick Fine Arts 125

Film screening
Svetla Tsotsorkova Thirst (Zhazhda, Bulgaria,  2016)
Post-screening discussion with Ingeborg Daraktchieva
5pm - 7pm in Frick Fine Arts 125 

Opening reception
7:30pm

 

Saturday, September 30
Film screening

Ines Tanovic’s Our Everyday Life (Naša svakodnevna priča, Bosnia, 2015)
Post-screening discussion with lead actress Dina Tukubayeva, Kazakhstan
10am - 1pm in Frick Fine Arts 125

Film screening
Zhanna Issabayeva’s Nagima(Kazakhstan, 2013)
3pm - 6pm in the Cathedral of Learning, room 232

Post-screening discussion with lead actress Dina Tukubayeva, Kazakhstan

 

Sunday, October 1
Film screening

Ruxandra Zenide, Ryna (Romania, 2006)
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Assistant Professor of Slavic, Director of European Studies, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
10am - 1pm, CL 232: 

Roundtable
Facilitated by Nancy Condee
1pm - 3:30pm in CL 232

Sponsors:
The Center for Russian and East European Studies, The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, The Film Studies Program, The Humanities Center, The Cultural Studies Program, The Asian Studies Center, The Women Studies Program, The Global Studies Center, The Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia, The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University