Join us for a special colloquium where University of Pittsburgh graduate students will interrogate and challenge the definitions of 'national' and 'transnational' through an investigation of American, German, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, Mexican, South Korean, and Japanese screen cultures.

Panelists:

Yvonne Franke, German/Film

No Home in Place: German Heimat on the Move

Olga Klimova, Slavic/Film

Beach as a Liberated Space of Teenagers: The Allegories of Optimistic Past and Pessimistic Present in Soviet Cinema of the 1970s

Seung-hwan Shin, English/East Asian/Film

Genre in Translation and Transposition: The Kimchi Western and Nostalgia without Memories

Colleen Jankovic, English/Film

A Particular Palestinian Problem: Cinema's Geography in Pre-State Zionist Films

Javier O'Neil-Ortiz, English/Film

The Milieu and the 'Mosaic Film' in Hannes Stohr's One Day in Europe

Felipe Pruneda Senties, English/Film

The Pleasure of Translation: Subtitles and Cinephilia

John Trenz, English/Film

Transnationalism and a Japan to US Dance Movie Remake/Reorientation

Discussants:

Prof. Randall Halle, German/Film

Prof. Neepa Majumdar, English/Film