The Past On Display: Museums, Film Musealization Conference
April 28-30, 2011

click on live links for participant bios and paper abstracts

Thursday, April 28th, 2011
519 York Research Tower (YRT) – building #95 on the map found here

1:30-2:15 Arrival, registration
2:15-2:30 Welcome
2:30-4:00 Keynote Address – ‘Theorizing Musealization”

• Sharon Macdonald, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

4:15-4:30 Coffee break
4:30-5:30 Panel 1 – Autobiography on Display

• Diana Spokiene, York University – “Autobiography as a Museum Narrative: Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder (2002)”
• Angelica Fenner, University of Toronto – “The Politics of Aesthetics in Turkish-German Autobiographical Documentary”

6:30 pm – Dinner, Executive Dining Room, Schulich School of Business

Friday, April 29th, 2011
7th floor York Research Tower

9:30-11:00 Panel 2 – Panel 2 – Affective / Experiential Approaches (open space, 7th Floor, York Research Tower)

• Jonathan Bach, New School, New York City – “Object Lessons: Visuality and Tactility in Museums of the Socialist Everyday”
• Susanne Luhmann, University of Alberta - “Female Nazis on Display: The Musealization of Female Perpetration at Ravensbrück”
• Sara Jones, University of Bristol, United Kingdom – “Emphatic Experiences and Blockbuster Shows: Intermediality and Staging the Authentic in Museums and Documentary Film”

9:30-11:00 – Panel 3 – Musealizing Cinema (764 York Research Tower)

• Janelle Blankenship, University of Western Ontario – “Exhibiting the Bioscop: Max Skladanowsky’s Film Apparatus on Display”
• Peter Mänz, Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin – “Musealization or Putting into Context?”
• Mark Schilling, Concordia University, Montreal – “Space of Cinema in the Logic of the Museum”

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break, CCGES

11:15-12:15 CCGES open space, 7th floor, YRT
Keynote Address – Vectors of Viewing: Cinema, Scale and the American Art Museum

• Haidee Wasson, Concordia University, Montreal

12:15-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 -Panel 4 – Exhibiting National Identity (open space, 7th Floor, York Research Tower)

• Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom – “Musealization of a Battle: Glocalized Discourses about the Battle in the Teutoburg Forest”
• Robin Ostow, Wilfrid Laurier University/Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto – “Musealizing Immigration in Germany Today: Initiatives and Obstacles”
• Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan – “Deep Time: Industrial History and Musealization in Contemporary Germany”

1:30-3:00 – Panel 5 – Image Archives (764 York Research Tower)

• Peters Mersereau, University of Toronto – “Early German Cinema and the Museum Current 1895-1918″
• Tobias Nagl, University of Western Ontario - “‘Pasttime Paradise’: Screening Colonialism in Weimar Germany”
• Simon Ward, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom – “Exhibiting Berlin as Repository, Archive, Museum: Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin“

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 – Panel 6 – Working across Media I (open space, 7th Floor, York Research Tower)

• Michael Taylor/ Annette Timm, University of Calgary – “Popular Sex: Exhibition Concept”
• Mark Rectanus, Iowa State University – “Refracted Memory: Museums, Film, and Visual Culture in Urban Space”
• Alice Kuzniar, University of Waterloo – “Rendering Animals: Documentary, Preservation, and the Food Industry

3:30-5:00 – Panel 7 – Material and Virtual National Museums (764 York Research Tower)

• Andrea Brait, University of Vienna - “Inszenierung vs Museumsinformation: Ein zwingender Widerspruch?”
• Sarah Jaques-Ross, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles- “The German Historical Museum as Memorial Museum: Time, Place, and Space in the Musealization of the German Past”
• Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba – “Historical Museum Meets Docu-Drama: The German Historical Experience of WWII”

7:30 pm – Reception and Screening, Camera Bar, 1028 Queen Street West

Saturday, April 30th, 2011
7th floor York Research Tower

9:30-11:00 – Panel 8- Musealization Processes in Cinema (open space, 7th Floor, York Research Tower)

• F. Strzelczyk, University of Calgary, and A. Orich, Berkeley – “Between Education and Entertainment: Visual Musealizations of the Nazi Past in Harlan – Im Schatten von Jud Süß (2008) and Jud Süß – Film ohne Gewissen (2010)”
• Catriona Firth, Durham University, United Kingdom/Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses, Berlin – “The Concealed Curator: Constructed Authenticity in Uli Edel’s Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex”
• Sophia Müller, University of Ottawa – “Fetish, Memory, and Politics: A Critical Examination of Commodity and Ostalgie in German Museums and post-Wende Cinema”

9:30-11:00 – Panel 9 – Working across Media II (764 York Research Tower)

• Kathryn Floyd, Auburn University - “Arthur Grimm: Film, Photography, Sculpture, Display”
• Christine Sprengler, University of Western Ontario – “‘In a Hundred Years of Cinema’: Cultural Memory and Musealization in Harun Farocki’s Workers leaving the Factories in Eleven Decades”
• Michael Cowan, McGill University, Montreal – “Moving Consumers: Advertising, Exhibitions and the Mobile Spectator

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:45 – Mina Lunzer, University of Media Arts, Köln, Germany - “Brought to Bare/Mitogio” (open space, 7th Floor, York Research Tower)

11:45-12:45 – Panel 10 – Depicting the Holocaust (open space, 7th Floor, York Research Tower)

• Diana Gring, Niedersachsen Memorial Foundation – “Depicted Fragments of Memory?” Historical Film Footage and Audiovisual Testimonies in the Permanent Exhibition at Bergen-Belsen
• Seth Feldman, York University – “Reflections of the Unimaginable: A Multi-Media Rendering of Three Cities Hosting the Holocaust”