Wednesday, June 7, 2006

 

 

Session One (in Hebrew) - Room 206a

Doctoral Student Panel

11:30-13:30

 

 

Chair: Alina Bernstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Meital Zion (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
The Real within the Virtual and the Virtual within the Real: A Post-Kantian Reading of Solaris

 

 

Nir Kedem (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Donnie Darko: Being, Desire and a Schizophrenic Cinematic Machine

 

 

Sigalit Banai (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Arabic and Iranian Films in Hebrew: The Arabic Roots of Israeli Cinema

 

 

Omri Ruah-Midbar (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
The Vocal Cyborg in the World of Media: Music, Videos and the Cellular

 

 

Lunch

13:30-14:30

 

 

Session Two - Room 206a Media and Selves

14:30-16:00

 

 

Chair: Nitzan Ben Shaul (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

 

Jerome Bourdon (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Authenticity as Performance: Reality Television - New Genre or New Sense of the Self?

 

 

Judd Ne'eman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Body Count - Why It Counts

 

 

Boaz Hagin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Celluloid as Belief: Interpassivity in Narratives of Post-Photographic Composites

 

 

Room 206a
greetings

16:00-16:30

 

 

Raanan Rein - Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University
Freddie Rokem - Dean, Faculty of the Arts,
Tel Aviv University
Dubi Rubinstein - Head of the Department of Film
and Television, Tel Aviv University Mihal Friedman, Colloquium Committee,
Tel Aviv University Nurith Gertz, The Open University; Head of the
Theory Studies Program, Tel Aviv University

 

 

Coffee Break

16:30-17:00

 

 

Session Three - Room 206a
Postmodernism and Cognition

17:00-18:30

 

 

Chair: Judd Ne'eman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

 

Nitzan Ben Shaul (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Split Texts and the Problem of Attention

 

 

Philip Rosen (Brown University, USA)
A Temporal Turn? - Media Hybridity and Tropes of Cultural Critique

 

 

Orly Lubin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
How Does the Visual Create Responsibility

 

 

Coffee Break

18:30-19:30

 

 

Keynote Speaker

19:30

 

 

Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Mindgame Films

 

 

Thursday, June 8, 2006

 

 

Session Four - Room 206a
Trauma

10:00-11:30

 

 

Chair: Mihal Friedman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

 

Raya Morag (Hebrew University, Israel)
Post-Trauma in Current Israeli Cinema

 

 

Anton Kaes (University of California, USA)
The Instability of the Real: Hallucination and Secondary Trauma in Robert Reinert's film
Nerves (1919)

 

 

Raz Yosef (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Restaging the Primal Scene of Loss: Melancholia and
Ethnicity in Israeli Cinema

 

 

Coffee Break

11:30-12:00

 

 

Session Five - Room 206a
Bodies

12:00-14:00

 

 

Chair: Linda Dittmar (University of Massachusetts, USA)

 

 

Meir Wigoder (Sapir College, Israel)
The Story of the Head: The Suicide-Bomber, the Medusa and the Aesthetics of Horror in Photography

 

 

Gilad Padva (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Queer Body as Corporeal Allegory in Lynd's The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore

 

 

Odeya Kohen-Raz (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Sandra Meiri (The Open University; Tel Aviv University, Israel) Spectatorship at the Crossroads: Between the Actor's Body and the Character

 

 

Lunch

14:00-15:00

 

 

Session Six - Room 206a
Jewish and Israeli Identity

15:00-16:00

 

 

Chair: Ilan Avisar (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

 

Yael Munk (The Open University;Tel Aviv University, Israel)
The Post-Colonial Function of Television's Virtual Space in 90's Israeli Cinema

 

 

Michael Renov (University of Southern California, USA)
Family Secrets: Alan Berliner's Nobody's Business and the Jewish Autobiographical Film

 

 

Coffee Break

16:00-16:30

 

 

Session Seven - Room 206a
History, Reality and Temporality

16:;30-18:00

 

 

Chair: Nurit Gertz (The Open University; Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

 

Anat Zanger (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
What's Wrong with this Picture? - Postmodernist Cinema, Labyrinth and the Still Picture

 

 

Noa Steimatsky (Yale University, USA)
Sets into Life: The Case of Cinecitta Refugee Camp

 

 

Ilan Avisar (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Comedy and Atrocity: Reality and Generic Transformations in Holocaust Movies

 

 

Friday, June 9, 2006

 

 

The Third Ear (48 Hamelech George St. Tel Aviv)
Daniel Dayan (CNRS/Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France)
Pragmatics, Television, and Monstration

11:00

 

 

Round Table Discussion and Film Screening (Entrance by Invitation Only)

 

 

Colloquium Committee
Nitzan Ben Shaul, Nurith Gertz, Mihal Friedman, Judd Ne'eman

 

 

Colloquium Board
Ilan Avisar, Boaz Hagin, Raz Yosef, Anat Zanger

 

 

Colloquium Managers Anat Turisky, Eran Sagi

 

 

Thanks are due to:
Freddie Rokem, Dubi Rubinstein, Shlomo Aronson, Ziva Ben-Porat, Niv Ahituv, Liviu Carmely, Alex Cormanski, Orna Erez, Rosie Harash, Zohara Holzblat, Dafna Lemish, Yehiel Limor, Cheli Menashe, Sandra Meiri, Yoram Perri, Gal Raz, Guy Raz, Naomi Yonna, Inbar Shaham
Special thanks to:
Navot Papushado for the image from his film new born