Programme

“Screening Atrocity: Cinema, Decolonisation and the Holocaust”

A free, one-day postgraduate workshop taking place at Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 10^th January 2013

PROGRAMME

10:30-11:00     Registration and welcome

11:00-12:00     Panel 1: Audience and Affect (Chair: Joe Barton)

                        Matt Lawson (Edge Hill): ‘Hearing Atrocity: Film Music and the Holocaust'

Gareth McAreavey (Liverpool): ‘Winning Hearts and Minds and Eyes: Recognizing Terrorism in Bouchareb’s Hors La Loi’

12:00-12:15     Break

12:15-1:15       Panel 2: Testimony and Complicity (Chair: Claire Peters)

                        Alex Adams (Newcastle): ‘Torquemada, Vichy, Paratroopers: La Question’

Iain Mossman (Cardiff): ‘Constructing the war without a name through the men without a voice: Multidirectional memory and the Algerian War Appelés in La Guerre Sans Nom’ (1992)

1:15-2:15         Lunch

2:15-3:15         Keynote Speaker: Professor Maxim Silverman

3:15-4:15         Panel 3: Presence and Absence (Chair: Alex Adams)

Claire Peters (Birmingham): “There is no present”: Cityspace, Memory, Representation and ‘Reality’ in Caché (Haneke 2005)

Kierran Horner (Kings College London): Presence and Absence: the Revelation of War in Le Joli Mai and La Jetée

4:15-4:40         Screening of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962)

4:40-5:00         Close