Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
Organized by Angelica Fenner
May 22-24, 2019
University of Toronto
208N Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Downloads: program, film screenings, poster.
Scholarly talks, roundtables, and film screenings honouring the luminous life and distinguished career of Ula Stöckl, first female graduate (1968) of the Ulm School of Design and among the pioneering directors of the West German feminist film movement. Her 23+ films have screened at over 70 film festivals, including recent retrospectives in London, Berlin, and Munich. She juries at international film festivals, guest lectures at film academies and is associate professor of film at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. The director will be in attendance.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Room 208, Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, Trinity College, 1 Devonshire Place
- 1:30–2:00 Welcome: Markus Stock, Chair, Germanic Languages & Literatures
Introductory Remarks: Angelica Fenner, Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies - 2:00–3:00 Erica Carter, Professor of German and Film, Kings College London
Activating the Feminist Archive
BREAK FOR REFRESHMENT
- 3:30–4:30 Skadi Loist, Professor, Production Cultures in AV Media Industries, Film Univ. Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Gendered Media Industries: Arguments for an Equal and Diverse Film Industry - 4:30–5:30 Claudia Breger, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Embodiment, Agency, Ethics: Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (2012)
Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Avenue
- 7:00–9:30 Screening: Neun Leben hat die Katze (The Cat Has Nine Lives, Ula Stöckl, 1968, FRG, 86 min.)
preceded by Antigone (Ula Stöckl, 1964, FRG, 7 min.)
Director in attendance; introduced by Angelica Fenner
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Room 208, Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, Trinity College, 1 Devonshire Place
- 9:30–10:30 Hester Baer, Associate Professor and Head, Germanic Studies, University of Maryland
Comedy and Feminist Film - 10:30–11:30 Gozde Naiboglu, Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Leicester
Gendered Subjectivity and Neo-Colonial Encounters in Toni Erdmann and Western - 11:30–12:30 Tanja Nusser, Associate Professor of German Studies and Film, University of Cincinnati
“There is nothing to keep me home”? Wild and Western – Two German Films
Media Commons Theatre, 3rd Floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street - 14:00–15:45 Screening: The Long Summer of Theory (dir. Irene von Alberti, 2017, Germany, 82 min.)
Introduced by Barbara Mennel - 16:00–17:00 Roundtable: Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Film Festivals, and Funding
Moderator: Hester Baer
Discussants: Jutta Brendemühl (Goethe-Institut), Jane Kim (TIFF), Skadi Loist (Film University
Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), Ula Stöckl (Florida Central University)
Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Avenue
- 19:00–21:30 Screening: Der Schlaf der Vernunft (Sleep of Reason, Ula Stöckl, 1984, FRG, 82 min.)
Director in attendance; introduced by Barbara Mennel
Friday, May 24, 2019
Room 208, Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, Trinity College, 1 Devonshire Place
- 9:30–10:30 Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor of Film and German Studies, University of Florida
Theory Film - 10:30–11:30 Olivia Landry, Assistant Professor of German, Lehigh University
A Gendered Suspension of Time: Waiting in the Cinema of Angela Schanelec - 11:30–12:30 Angelica Fenner, Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto
Posthuman Performativities in Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement
Media Commons Theatre, 3rd Floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street
- 14:00–15:15 Screening: Das alte Lied (That Old Song, Ula Stöckl, 1992, 82 min.)
Director in attendance; introduced by Hester Baer - 15:30–16:30 Roundtable with Ula Stöckl: The Second-Wave Feminist Film Movement and Beyond
Moderator: Angelica Fenner & Barbara Mennel
Co-sponsors:
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Cineman Studies Institute
Women & Gender Studies Institute
Faculty of Arts & Science
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
