Memory and Migration: Screen Visions of Past and Future Lives in Russian and Central Asian Cinema

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel investigates screen narratives of migration, imagined and real, in the cinemas of former Soviet space, specifically Russia and Central Asia. The papers consider internal migration - to an imagined past - in contemporary Russian fiction film and animation; migration into a patriarchal past in the cinema of Central Asia; and migration as entrapment in cinematic narratives from Georgia and Central Asia. The panel addresses problems of colonial memory in contemporary stories of displacement/migration.

Sub Unit

• Cinema, Television, Electronic Media

Chair

• Birgit Beumers, Aberystwyth U (UK)

Papers

• Work Slavery: Issues of Migration or Remembrance of Patriarchal Past in Central Asian Cinema - Gulnara Abikeyeva, Turan U (Kazakhstan)

• Returns to the Past: Memory Erasure in the Cinema of Central Asia (and beyond) - Birgit Beumers, Aberystwyth U (UK)

• Soviet Kyrgyzstan as a Case Study: A Place of Tension between the Soviet Center and National Identity - Eugenie Zvonkine, U of Paris 8 (France)

Discussant

• Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Colby College

Session Manager

• Jelena Dureinovic, U of Vienna (Austria)