Events
09.30-10.00: Coffee and Registration
10.00-10.15: Welcome and Introduction: Annette Kuhn
Balázs's Intellectual Geography (chair: Erica Carter)
10.30-11.20: Sabine Hake (University of Texas at Austin), 'Béla Balázs, film folklore, and the reenchantment of the modern masses'.
11.20-12.30: Hanno Loewy (Jewish Musuem, Hohenems), 'Cinema as "Rites de Passage". Béla Balázs's expeditions into time, space and film'.
12.30-13.30: LUNCH
13.30: Screening: Afgrunden (Urban Gad, 1910: with Asta Nielsen) 35'
Balázs: The Problem of the Body in Film Theory (chair: Rodney Livingstone)
14.15-15.00: Erica Carter (University of Warwick), 'Balázs and the cosmopolitan body'.
15.00-15.45: Andrew Webber (University of Cambridge), 'Cinematic body parts in film theory after Balázs'.
15.45-16.15: TEA
16.15-17.15: Panel Discussion (chair: Annette Kuhn)
17.15-18.00: Reception/Book Launch
The organisers acknowledge the kind support of Screen, with Queen Mary, University of London , the University of Warwick, Berghahn Books, Hungarian Cultural Centre and the University of London Screen Studies Group.