Programme: Cinema-Going in The Arab World: Exhibition, Distribution, and Audiences
A workshop (Cairo, Egypt, 14-15 September 2018) organized by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo with support from “DICIS” / Digital Cinema Studies https://www.digitalcinemastudies.com/
Programme
14 September – Day 1
8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee/tea
9:00-9:30 Welcome to the conference
Rudolf de Jong – Director, NVIC
Ifdal Elsaket – Assistant-Director (Arabic and Islamic studies)
9:30-10:30 Keynote
Daniel Biltereyst (University of Ghent, DICIS) and Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp, DICIS) - On New Cinema History
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea break
11:00-1:00 Panel 1: Early Cinema Going
Arthur Asseraf (University of Cambridge) - Seeing the World as it is? Newsreels, Censorship, and Cinema Riots in Colonial North Africa
Morgan Corriou (University of Paris 8) - Egyptian Cinema in Colonial Maghreb: Distribution, Exhibition and Audiences
Hend Al-Awadhi (University of Kuwait) - Transcultural Encounters: Excavating Early Histories of Cinema-Going in Kuwait
Asmaa Ghareeb (Contemporary Image Collective) - The History of Cinemas in Ismailia and its Intersection with the Audience (Social Class and Gender) from 1950-1985
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Panel 2: Dealers, Businesses, and Cooperation
Irit Neidhardt (MEC Film) - Without Mention of the Contracted Partner: On Cooperation in Film and TV between the PLO and the GDR
Arpi Sarkis Khatcherian (American University Cairo) - Alcohol and ‘Hollywood on the Nile’: A Review of Literature and Expert Interviews
Chihab al-Khashab (University of Oxford) - Coordination, visualization, and imagined audiences in Egyptian film production
3:30-4:00 Coffee/tea break
4:00-5:30 Panel 3: Politics of Production
Rahma Bavelaar (University of Amsterdam) - Interfaith Love and Competing Visions of "Moral Cinema" in 1952 Cairo
Carolina Bracco (University of Buenos Aires) - The Politics of Production the Social Construction of Image and Imagination of Dancers in Egyptian Film
Hanan Sharaf Al-Dine (Misr International University) - Multimodal Construction of the Image of Women in Egyptian Film Posters of the Golden Years and the Present.
15 September – Day 2
9:00-10:30 Panel 4: Festivals
Stefanie Van de Peer (University of Exeter) - Arab Documentary Landscapes – Transnational Flows of Solidarity at Festivals
Sabine Salhab (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University) - European Co-productions in Tunisian Contemporary Cinema: Three Case Studies
Anais Farine (University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) - “Mediterranean Cinema:” Festivals: Circulation of Films, Network of Programmers and the (Re)invention of a Regional Category
10:30-12:00 Panel 5: Nostalgia, Memory, and Archive
Ali Atef (University of Chicago) - What Moves us in Moving-image Archives? Ethnography about the Film-experience in Moving-image Archives
Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla (Free University of Berlin) - The Visual Nation: Re-claiming Egyptianness in front of the Screen
12:00-12:45 Lunch – general wrap-up of papers and steps forward