Domitor Conference 2012 Programme – Draft – 31 March 2012

 1 Domitor Conference 2012
Programme – Draft – 31 March 2012
MONDAY 18th June 2012
8:30
Pastries and beverages
9:00
Welcomes by Anne Boddington (Dean of Faculty, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton); Frank Gray
(Director, Screen Archive South East); Scott Curtis (President, Domitor)
9:30
Panel 1: Sallis Benney Theatre
Performing “Non-Fiction”
Gregory A. Waller (Indiana University), “Circulating and Exhibiting Moving Pictures of the Australian Antarctic
Expedition (1911-3)”
Rositza Alexandrova (University of Cambridge), “Cinegramme-Sending from the Ilinden Uprising”
Rielle Navitski (University of California, Berkeley), “‘Mixtures of Féerie and Document’: Sensational Theater and
True-Crime Films in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1908-1913”
10:30
Break
10:50 Panel 2: Sallis Benney Theatre
Music, Opera, and Song
Beatrice Birardi (Società Italiana di Musicologia), “From ‘Chamber’ to Cinema: The Music by Carlo Graziani
Walter for Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (Italy, 1913)”
Bernhard Kuhn (Bucknell University), “Intermediality Italian Style: Operaticality and Metareferentiality in the
Cinema of the Early 1910s”
Jaume Radigales (Université Ramon Llull, Barcelona) and Isabel Villanueva (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya,
Barcelona), “Le rôle de l’opéra dans le cinéma primitif : Étude des cas”
Anupama Kapse (Queens College, City University of New York), “Song and Dance in the Indian Silent Film”
Panel 3: Boardroom at Grand Parade
Exhibition beyond Theatres and Cinemas
Jon Burrows (University of Warwick), “Automatic Entertainment: Early Cinema in the Penny Arcade”
Oliver Gaycken (University of Maryland), “‘Denizens of the Deep’: F. Martin Duncan, Natural History Filmmaking,
and the Brighton Aquarium”
Oksana Chefranova (New York University), “The Screen in the Garden: Moving Image Shows in Moscow circa
1900”
12:10
Lunch
1:10
Panel 4: Sallis Benney Theatre
Music, Colour, and Sound
Christopher Natzén (National Library of Sweden), “‘Such Music Cannot Be Regarded as Real or Genuine Art’:
Swedish Cinema Musicians in 1908-1909”
Mélissa Gignac (Université Paris 7), “Le son dans les années 1910 : un exemple d’autonomisation progressive des
films”
Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Lyrical Education: Music and Color in Early Nonfiction Film”
Joshua Yumibe (University of St Andrews), “Colour as Performance in Visual Music, Film Tinting, and Digital
Painting”
Panel 5: Boardroom at Grand Parade
Picture Personalities
Charles O’Brien (Carleton University), “Griffith Goes West: The Move to California and Its Impact on Actors’
Performances in the Biograph Films”
Laura Horak (Stockholm University), “Performing the Film Director: Mauritz Stiller and Vingarne”
Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London), “Performers – On Stage and Now on Screen”
Chris O’Rourke (University of Cambridge), “In the Flesh: Personal Appearances and the Picture Personality in
Britain before 1915”
2:30
Break
2 2:50
Panel 6: Sallis Benney Theatre
Performance and Pedagogy
Marina Dahlquist (Stockholm University), “Health on Display: The Panama Pacific Exposition (1915) as Sanitary
Venue”
Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk (Utrecht University), “‘Kinoreformbewegung’ Revisited: Performing the
Cinematograph as a Pedagogical Tool”
David Williams (independent scholar), “The Letchworth Experiment, 1914-1917”
Kaveh Askari (University of Western Washington), “The Artist’s Studio on Display: Workspace as Educational
Space”
Panel 7: Boardroom at Grand Parade
Performing Femininity
Liz Clarke (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Old Wars and New Women: Performing Active Femininity”
Diana Anselmo-Sequeira (University of California, Irvine), “‘Neither Here, Nor There, But Everywhere’: How
Early American Film Disembodied Adolescent Girlhood”
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), “When the Law Is the Audience: Codifying
Performance in a New Medium”
4:10
Break
4:40
Panel 8: Sallis Benney Theatre
Reconsidering Early Japanese Film: Sounds, Stories, and Performances
Panel Chair: Hiroshi Komatsu (Waseda University)
Ryo Okubo (University of Tokyo), “Teachers, Benshi, and Itinerant Entertainers: Magic Lantern Performances in
Japan at the End of the Nineteenth Century”
Sawako Ogawa (University of Tokyo), “From Kodan to Kyugeki: How the Japanese Storytelling Tradition of
Kodan Was Assimilated into Early Japanese Cinema”
Manabu Ueda (Ritsumeikan University), “The Development of Regional Characteristics during the Emergence of
Moving Picture Theaters: A Comparison between Tokyo and Kyoto”
Masaki Daibo (Waseda University), “Reception of Film d’Art and Its Impact on Japanese Sound Culture”
6:30
Evening Event: Blackwell book reception
TUESDAY 19th June 2012
8:30
Pastries and beverages
9:00
Panel 9: Sallis Benney Theatre
Vaudeville and Comedy
Donald Crafton (University of Notre Dame), “McCay and Keaton: The Intermediality of Vaudeville, Animation and
Slapstick Cinema”
Maggie Hennefeld (Brown University), “Performing Film Form: Vaudeville Theater and Early Motion Picture
Comedy”
Gwendolyn Waltz (independent scholar), “20 Minutes or Less: Short-Form Film-and-Theatre Hybrids—Skits,
Sketches, Playlets, & Acts in Vaudeville, Variety, Revues, &c”
Pierre Chemartin and Santiago Hidalgo (Université de Montréal), “Learning Film Performance Through Comics”
Panel 10: Room G4
Transnational Corridors: Southeast Asia, the Americas, Scandinavia
Nadi Tofighian (Stockholm University), “Circuit of Commerce and Cinema: Singapore and the Southeast Asian Film
Market”
Joel Frykholm (Stockholm University), “From Movie Palace to Media Spaces: New Perspectives on the Exhibition
Contexts of the Multi-Reel Feature Film, 1913–1915”
John Fullerton (Stockholm University), “Reframing the Panorama in Mexico: Early Actuality Film and NineteenthCentury Lithographs and Photographs”
Anne Bachmann (Stockholm University), “Trajectories between Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm: What Norwegian
Male Stars Brought to Swedish Biograph, 1913–1915”
10:20
3 Break
10:40 Panel 11: Sallis Benney Theatre
Performing Resistance
Natascha Drubek (University of Regensburg) “Unruly Projectionists and Censorship in the Cinema of Czarist
Russia”
Denis Condon (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “‘Offensive and Riotous Behaviour’: Regulating the Irish
Cinema Audience, 1910-15”
Alison Griffiths (Baruch College, City University of New York), “Old New Media: The Time Warp Case of Motion
Pictures in Prison”
12:00
Lunch
1:00
Panel 12: Sallis Benney Theatre
Old and New Media
Giusy Pisano (Université Paris-Est), “Au commencement était le son!”
André Gaudreault (Université de Montréal) and Philippe Marion (Université de Louvain), “D’un tournant de siècle
à l’autre : l’animation restaurée”
Wanda Strauven (University of Amsterdam), “The Performing Screens of Early Cinema”
Andrea Haller (Deutsches Filminstitut), “Presenting New Media of the Nineteenth Century in the Context of the
Twenty-First-Century Museum: The Case of the German Film Museum in Frankfurt”
Katherine Groo (University of Aberdeen), “Cut, Paste, Glitch, and Stutter: Remixing Early Film (History)”
2:30
Break
3:00
Special Session: Digital Technologies and New Media circa 1900: Sallis Benney Theatre
4:30
Break
5:00
Panel 13: Sallis Benney Theatre
Magic Lantern
Valentine Robert (Université de Lausanne/Université de Montréal), “De la page à la performance, de la toile à
l’écran − ou comment la nouvelle culture des médias s’approprie et transforme le tableau vivant”
M. Magdalena Brotons Capó (Universitat de les illes Balears), “Les plaques de lanterne magique à l’origine de
l’image cinématographique”
Sarah Dellmann (Utrecht University), “Getting to know the Dutch: Magic Lantern Series on the Netherlands
Considered as Screen Practice”
Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (University of Trier), “Screening Sensations and Live Performance”
6:30
Break, Evening Event: Magic Lantern Show with David Francis
WEDNESDAY 20th June 2012
8:30
Pastries and beverages
9:00
Panel 14: Sallis Benney Theatre
The Circus and the Occult
Annie Fee (University of Washington), “Circus and Cinema: A Fairground Audience at the Gaumont-Palace”
Patrick Désile (Université de Paris), “Cirque et premier cinéma : Antagonismes et convergences”
Emmanuel Plasseraud (Université Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée), “Médiums et nouveaux médias : Projections
cinématographiques et performances médiumniques entre 1895 et 1915”
Panel 15: Room G4
Literature, Visuality, and Early Film
Pam Thurschwell (University of Sussex), “G. A. Smith, Psychical Research and Film: Disembodied Aesthetics
and the Illusion of Embodiment”
Laura Marcus (Oxford University), “Conrad’s Figurative Understandings of the Cinema”
Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan), “Henry James and G. A. Smith: Illusion and Visuality”
10:00
4 Break
10:30 Panel 16: Sallis Benney Theatre
Shadowplay
Thierry Lecointe (chercheur indépendant), “Entre nouveauté et continuité : Le spectacle cinématographique
serait-il une emergence du théâtre d’ombres français?”
Marco Bellano (Università degli Studi di Padova), “The Sound of the Shadows: The Aesthetics of Music for Shadow
Plays in Late-Nineteenth-Century France”
Canan Balan (Istanbul Sehir University), “Early Multimedia Performances in Late-Nineteenth-Century Istanbul”
Panel 17: Room G4
Institutional Histories of Moving Pictures in the South West UK before 1914
John Plunkett (University of Exeter), “Variety Halls and Touring Visual Entertainment in Plymouth, 1860-1890”
Joe Kember (University of Exeter), “Plymouth’s ‘Home of Cinema’: The Long Institutional History of British Town
Hall Picture Shows”
Rosalind Leveridge (University of Exeter), “‘A Complete Entertainment from the Moment They Enter’: Cinema
and Community in the Coastal Resorts of the South West, 1909-1914”
11:30
Lunch
12:30 Panel 18: Sallis Benney Theatre
Narrators
Alain Boillat (Université de Lausanne), “Projections fixes / animées : approche historiographique et théorique”
Judith Buchanan (University of York), “‘Guttersnipe’ Dialects and ‘élocution soignée’: The Ranging Cultural
Performance Registers of Early Cinema Lecturers”
May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster), “A Late ‘Early’ Cinema: Orality and Siam’s 16mm Era”
Martin Loiperdinger (University of Trier), “Missing Believed Lost: The Film Narrator Then and Now”
1:50
Break
2:10
Special Session: Brighton 1978/2012: Sallis Benney Theatre
4:00
Sessions end
6:00
Evening Event: Frank Gray’s Brighton Show
THURSDAY 21st June 2012
8:30
Pastries and beverages
9:00
Panel 19: Sallis Benney Theatre
Technology I
Benoît Turquety (Université de Lausanne), “L’histoire des techniques comme source pour l’histoire des pratiques
performatives”
Katharina Loew (University of Oregon), “Specters of the Theater: 3-D Cinema in the 1910s”
Doron Galili (Oberlin College), “The Invention that Will Out-Edison Edison: Early Cinema and Moving Image
Transmission”
Ted Hovet (Western Kentucky University), “From Circle to Oblong: Standardizing the Borders of the Projected
Image in the 1890s”
William Boddy (Baruch College, City University of New York), “The Spectacle of Technology: Cinema and
Outdoor Advertising in Early-Twentieth-Century Visual Culture”
Panel 20: Room G4
Place and Exhibition
Marta Braun (Ryerson University) and Charlie Keil (University of Toronto), “Architecture and Performance:
Toronto’s Screen Media Landscape at the Turn of the Century”
Paul S. Moore (Ryerson University), “Early Cinema’s ‘Social Media’ Moment: Local Views in Mainstream Picture
5 Shows in North America before the Nickelodeon”
Leigh Mercer (University of Washington), “Barcelona on the Move: The Metropolitan Cinemaway at the
Intersection of Tourism, Entertainment, and Urbanism”
Begoña Soto Vázquez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), “Cinema as Extension of the Train and the Journal:
Considering a New Audience for the Cinematograph, Madrid 1900-1912”
10:20
Break
10:40 Panel 21: Sallis Benney Theatre
Historiography, Nation, Femininity, and Performance
Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal/Université de Lausanne), “L’historiographie de la performance dans le
cinéma des premiers temps et l’émergence de l’histoire universitaire du cinéma”
Gunnar Iversen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Performing New Media and the Creation of
National Identity: Kräusslich and Köpke in Norway before 1910”
Stephen Putnam Hughes (University of London), “Performing Authority at the Cinema in Victorian India”
Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Lois Weber at Rex: Performing Femininity Across Media”
Panel 22: Room G4
Performance Beyond the Silent Screen: Comedy, Criminality and the Fashioning of a
Multimodal Cinema
April Miller (University of Northern Colorado), “Vamp until Ready: Parlor Songs, Pseudoscience, and the Ephemeral
Performance of the Silent Screen Vampire”
Vicki Callahan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Simulation Platforms for Writing Film History: A Scalar
Presentation on Mabel Normand and Cinematic Performance”
Michele Torre (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), “Transforming Comedic Performance for the ‘New Media’:
Lina Bauer Does Film Comedy”
12:10
Lunch
1:10
Panel 23: Sallis Benney Theatre
Technology II
Richard Brown (independent scholar), “A New Look at Old History”
Paul Spehr (independent scholar), “Scopes, Phones, Graphs and Grams: Movies and Phonographs at the
Introduction of Cinema”
Frank M. Scheide (University of Arkansas), “Freeman Owens: Early Arkansas Home Movie Exhibitor,
Cinematographer, and Inventor of Motion Picture Technology from 1908-1972”
Stephen Herbert (Kingston University, London), “Recreating the First Cameras: A Twelve-Year Project”
2:30
Break
2:40
Special Session: Domitor General Assembly: Sallis Benney Theatre
4:00
Break
4:30
Panel 24: Sallis Benney Theatre
Programming and Performance
Laurent Guido (Université de Lausanne) and Laurent Le Forestier (Université de Rennes), “Performance et
programmes : le cinéma programmé parmi des performances / les performances dans les programmes de
cinéma”
Richard Abel (University of Michigan), “Motion Picture Advertisements, Programming and Performance”
Ansje van Beusekom (Utrecht University), “Performing Films in Winter 1904, 1905, and 1906: Albert Freres and
Their Exhibition Skills in Multipurpose Buildings in Dutch Cities”
Ranita Chatterjee (University of Westminster), “‘Bringing out from Europe the Latest Scientific Illusion’:
Performing New Media in British India”
Priska Morrissey (Université Rennes 2), “De l’invention des génériques : étude du cas français (1908-1914)”
6:00
Evening Event: Conference Dinner (details to be announced)
6 FRIDAY 22nd June 2012
8:30
Pastries and beverages
9:00
Panel 25: Sallis Benney Theatre
Fregoli, Reynaud, and Lightning Sketches
Frederic Tabet (Université Paris-Est), “La transparence du Fregoligraph”
Christelle Odoux (chercheuse indépendante), “L’application par Émile Reynaud de la photographie à son Théâtre
optique : les Photo-peintures animées (1896)”
Jean-Baptiste Massuet (Université Rennes 2), “L’appropriation des Lightning Sketches par le Cinématographe, de la
performance scénique au cartoon”
Malcolm Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London), “Performance Times: The Lightning Cartoon and the
Emergence of Animation”
Panel 26: Room G4
Early Cinema (A)live! Sound, Body Performances, and Media Constructions of Presence
Wolfgang Fuhrmann (University of Zürich), “Listening to the Image: Ethnographic Film’s Long Beginning”
Kristina Köhler (University of Zürich), “Tango Mad and Affected by Cinematographitis: The 1910s Dance Crazes, Early
Cinema, and Rhythmic ‘Contagions’ between Screens and Audiences”
Daniel Wiegand (University of Zürich), “‘Performed Live and Talking. No Kinematograph’: Amateur Performances of
Tableaux Vivants and Local Film Exhibition in Germany around 1900”
Franziska Heller (University of Zürich), “Lumière Re-Mastered? Early Cinema Today and Its ‘Digital Performance’”
10:20
Break
10:45 Panel 27: Sallis Benney Theatre
Stage and Screen
Ivo Blom (VU University of Amsterdam), “The Cross-Medial Case of Lyda Borelli”
Nic Leonhardt (LMU Munich), “Pictorial Dramaturgy. Theatre and Visual Media around 1900”
Stephen Bottomore (independent scholar), “The Lady of Ostend”
12:00
Lunch
1:00
Panel 28: Sallis Benney Theatre
Showmen
Caitlin McGrath (independent scholar), “‘The Eye is a Great Educator’: J. K. Dixon at Kodak”
Peter Walsh (Sheffield University), “Standards of Practice in Transition: The Showmanship of Jasper Redfern as It
Emerged”
Maria A. Velez-Serna (University of Glasgow), “Mapping Showmanship Skills and Practices in Scotland”
Artemis Willis (University of Chicago), “‘Marvelous and Fascinating’: L. Frank Baum’s Fairylogue and Radio Plays”
2:30
Break
3:00
Special Session: Closing Roundtable: Sallis Benney Theatre
4:00
End of conference