Recuperating narratives, mediums, and creativities

Organizers:
Özgür Çiçek & Özlem Savaş

Keynote Speakers:
Ann Cvetkovich & Davina Quinlivan

June 1, Tuesday [CEST (UTC +2)]

9:30-9:45

 Check-in

9:45-10:00

 WELCOME NOTE

 Özgür Çiçek (Freie Universität Berlin)

 Özlem Savaş (Bard College Berlin)

10:00-10:45

 KEYNOTE TALK I

 Davina Quinlivan (Senior Lecturer, The School of Critical and Historical Studies, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University)

 Filming the Body in Crisis in the 21st Century

 Moderator: Özgür Çiçek (Freie Universität Berlin)

10:45-11:15

Break

11:15-13:00

 SESSION 1: Archives - Memory - Performativity

 Moderator: Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University)

 J Y Irene Lee (University of Cambridge) – The Pain of Others on a Loop

 Kumi James (University of Southern California) – Archives of Healing

 Maria Walsh (University of the Arts, London) - Performative 'healing' and/in Rehana Zaman’s Sharla Shabana Sojourner Selena

 Sena Başöz (Artist and filmmaker) – Healing the archived and the unarchived

13:00-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-15:40

 SESSION 2: First-person narratives - Testimonies - Exposure

 Moderator: Özlem Savaş (Bard College Berlin)

 Caitlin Shepherd (University of West England) – Reframing the Class Divide: Caring Imaginaries, Class Struggle and the Social turn

 Yago Paris (Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) - Ethnic Healing: Fighting the Logic of the Unacknowledgeability through the Documentary Format — the  Srbenka Case

 Pieter Verstraete (Freie Universität Berlin & University of Groningen) - Framing or Being Framed? Questions on Exilic Theatre and Podcasting

 Özlem Sarıyıldız (Director, editor, video-artist) - Writing Histories through First-Person Narratives, Healing through Listening and Montage: ZAHIR

15:40-16:10

Break

16:10-17:50

 SESSION 3: Diagnosis - Empathy - Consolation

 Moderator: Fırat Erdoğmuş (Universität Duisburg Essen)

 Amy Hardie (Edinburgh University) - Film Medicine

 Polina Rybina (Lomonosov Moscow State University) - The Mirror and the Telephone: Diagnosing and Healing in the films of Robert Siodmak

 Asli Telli (University of Siegen) - Researchers’ Voice in/around/across Mobility and Time

 Marylou Bongiorno & Jerome Bongiorno (Filmmakers) - Healing by conjuring Chekhov's THE BLACK MONK

17:50 - 18:30

Break

18:30-19:30

 FILM TALK: Surpassing Disaster

 Joana Hadjithomas (Filmmaker) in conversation with Pelin Tan (Batman University)

 Moderator: Ahmet Gürata (Stockholm University)

June 2, Wednesday  [CEST (UTC +2)]

9:30-11:10

 SESSION 4: Care - Connectivity - Collaboration

 Moderator: Eylül İşçen (ICI - Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry)

 Can Kutay (Bilkent University) - A Digital “meeting place” during Covid 19 within video games

 Eylem Yanardağoğlu & Ufuk Soyöz (Kadir Has University) - The Virtual world of Healing across Screen Cultures

 Birte de Gruisbourne, Christian Schulz (Universität Paderborn) - A Healing Media System of Care: Cancer Diaries and Social Media

 Anna Wiehl (University of Bayreuth) - Poetics of compassion: Visual poetry and co-creation in virtual opening spaces as self-care and community-care

11:10-11:40

Break

11:40-13:20

 SESSION 5: Anthropocentric hierarchies - Queer aesthetics - Performativity

 Moderator: Özgür Çiçek (Freie Universität Berlin)

 Brett Mills (Edge Hill University) - My Octopus Teacher and Anthropocentric Discourses of Healing

 Gilad Padva (Tel Aviv University)-Pablo's Straight Skin, Bruno's Gay Mask? Pretending to Be Gay on Screen as Queer Healing Device in Marco Berger's Plan B

 Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz (National University of Ireland Galway) - Subcultural “Healing” and Reclaiming Violence in Derek Jarman’s Early Films

 Işıl Eğrikavuk (Universität der Künste Berlin) - Performance Art for Self-Healing Practices

13:20-14:20

Lunch break

14:20-15:40

 SESSION 6: Post-memory - Mourning - Affect

 Moderator: Pieter Verstraete (Freie Universität Berlin & University of Groningen)

 Tuğçe Kutlu (University College London) - Mourning in Horror: Grief in the 21st Century Horror Films

 Katia Lombardi (Federal University of São João del-Rei & Federal University of Minas Gerais) - Affective stories, fragmented memories: a documentary on the post-memory of Italian immigration in Brazil

 Nuno Coelho, Rafaela Rodrigues & Jorge Cardoso (University of Coimbra) - Black Setúbal – An audiowalk on the The Black Presence in the Town of Setúbal (15th-18th century)

15:40-16:10

Break

16:10-17:00

 KEYNOTE TALK II

 Ann Cvetkovich (Professor and Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University)

 Grappling with Mental Health:  Disability Justice and Care Activisms

 Moderator: Özlem Savaş (Bard College Berlin)

17:00-17:30

Break

17:30-18:30

 CONCLUDING REMARKS: What is next?