Colloquium

The colloquium serves the regular exchange of information between the members of the MRCB. Current research projects are presented and future projects are developed. The focus is on the research activities and initiatives of postgraduates at the centre, the projects of associated guest researchers as well as third-party funded and collaborative projects.

WINTER SEMESTER 2025/26

 

  • Thur./Do. 16.10.2025, 16:00-18:00 - MRCB Kolloquium, room 6001 (house 6)

Mod: Steffen Hven

  1. The Yellow Study: Eisenstein, Ecstasy, and Ekphrasis 
    Daniel D’Amore (Postdoctoral Researcher CATNEMI, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
  2. Preliminary Thoughts on Animal Images in Soviet Collectivist Films of the 1930s
    Dustin Condren (Fulbright Research Fellow, Gastwissenschaftler Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)

     

  • Thur./Do. 20.11.2025, 16:00-18:00 - MRCB Meeting, room 6141 (house 6)

Mod.: Susanne Eichner

Austauschrunde zu Forschungsideen (informell)
Research Idea Exchange (informal)

 

  • Thur./Do. 11.12.2025, 16:00-18:00 Uhr - MRCB Kolloquium, room 6141 (house 6)
  1. Susanne Eichner & Sophie Glawe (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
  2. Jamie Lee Moser (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)

(TBA)

 

  • Thur./Do. 15.01.2026, 16:00-18:00 - MRCB Kolloquium, room 6001 (Haus 6)
  1. Daniela Schlütz & Sarah Kordecki, Projekt ILLUME (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Zusammenarbeit mit HoF Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

(TBA)

 

  • Thur./Do. 12.02.2026, 16:00-18:00 - MRCB Meeting, 6001 (Haus 6)

Mod.: Susanne Eichner

Austauschrunde zu Forschungsideen (informell)
Research Idea Exchange (informal)

 

 

SUMMER SEMESTER 2025

 

  • Thur./Do., 22.05.2025, 16-18:00, room/Raum 5101

Mod.: Susanne Eichner

  1. Research Idea Exchange (informal) /  Austauschrunde zu Forschungsideen (informell)

 

  • Thur./Do. 12.06.2025, 16-18 Uhr, room/Raum 5101

Mod: Guido Kirsten

  1. Lisa Plumeier (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF): Legacy Artefacts on TikTok: The role of film and TV in multimodal and multireferential content networks
  2. Dr. Jana Goyvaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Beyond The Matrix: Mapping Far Right Film References
     

afterwards: Get-together with finger food and drinks
 

 

  • Thur./Do. 10.07.2025, 16-18 Uhr, room/Raum 5101

Mod.: Steffen Hven

  1. Dr. Pablo Salas Tonello (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF): New Challenges... Old Constraints? Mapping Film Festivals in Argentina in the Post-Covid Era
  2. Dr. Julia Alekseyeva (University of Pennsylvania): Antifascism and the Avant-Garde. Radical Documentary in the 1960s
     

afterwards: tbd / details to follow

 

 

 

 

SUMMER SEMESTER 2024

  • Wed/Mi, 24.4. 16–17:30, room/Raum 5101

Mod: Skadi Loist  

  1. Adam Straka (Guest Researcher Feb-April 2024 / PhD Candidate Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava): The role of institutions in the rise of Slovak auteur documentary film
  2. Dr. Roderik Smits (PNB Fellow): Circulating Films Online: Insights from Independent Distributors

Im Anschluss: Eröffnung Sehsüchte Filmfestival (19:00 Filmmuseum Potsdam)

  • Thur/Do, 30.5., 16-17:30, room/Raum 1321

Mod.: Guido Kirsten

  1. Dr. Pablo Salas Tonello (DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow): Buenos Aires: The Southern Capital of Cinephilia. Politics, Aesthetics and Innovation at the first BAFICI (April, 1999)
  2. Dr. Cheryl Dueck (Gastwissenschafterin Filmuni SoSe 2024 / University of Calgary): Central European Migration Conflict: Gendered Affect and Populism on Screen
  3. N.N.
  • Thur/Do, 20.6., 16-17:30, room/Raum 1321

Mod.: Ursula von Keitz

  1. Dr. Burcu Dabak (Guest Researcher 2023/24 Tübitak / Yaşar University, Izmir): Maintaining Contact with National Culture Abroad: Turkish Film Festivals in Germany
  2. Franzis Kabisch (Gastforscherin Filmuni 2023/24 / Doktorandin Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien): Plot Twist Abortion – Über die Darstellung von Abtreibungen im deutschen und österreichischen Film und Fernsehen 1990-2020
  3. N.N.