February 22 to 24, 2024, at USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Preliminary Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5 pm \u2013 Reception, School of Cinematic Arts Lobby<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7 pm \u2013 Introduction, Screening, and Discussion of The Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme<\/em> and Hakob Hovnatanyan, <\/em>Ray Stark Theater<\/p>\n\n\n\n Location: SCI 108<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11 am-11:15 am \u2013 Welcome remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11:15 am-1:00 pm \u2013 Panel 1: Crossings in Time and Space<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harsha Ram (UC Berkeley), \u201cBetween National and Social Liberation: The Legend of Surami Fortress from Daniel Chonkadze to Sergei Parajanov\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacob Plagmann (Princeton), \u201cA Matter of Life and Death: Transcending the Productivist Frame of Soviet Cinema in Parajanov\u2019s The Color of Pomegranates<\/em> and The Legend of Suram Fortress\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tigran Simyan (Yerevan State University), \u201cSergei Parajanov as a Man of the Georgian \u2018Frontier\u2019: the World of Things, the City, and Cinema\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1:00 pm-2:00 pm \u2013 Lunch for conference participants<\/p>\n\n\n\n Location: Ray Stark Theater<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2:00 pm-3:15 pm \u2013 Panel 2: Presence and Absence<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel Bird (The Hamo Bek-Nazarov Project), \u201cTowards a Cinemadaran: The Preservation and Restoration of Parajanov\u2019s Filmography\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n James Steffen (Emory), \u201cAnother Water, a Different Script: The Outtakes for Sergei Parajanov\u2019s The Color of Pomegranates\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3:15 pm-3:30 pm \u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3:30 pm-4:45 pm \u2013 Panel 3: Sensory Engagement <\/p>\n\n\n\n Marie-Aude Baronian (University of Amsterdam), \u201cA World of Cinemas: on Parajanov\u2019s Language of Objects\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armand Tufenkian (UC San Diego), \u201cOrnament and Repair in Color of Pomegranates<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4:45 pm-5:00 pm \u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5:00 pm-6:00 pm \u2013 Keynote: Leah Feldman (University of Chicago), \u201cParajanov in Queer Times\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6:00 pm-7:30 pm \u2013 Dinner for conference participants<\/p>\n\n\n\n Location: Ray Stark Theater<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7:30 pm-8:00 pm \u2013 Levon Abrahamian (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia), \u201cToward the Poetics of The Color of Pomegranates<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8:00 pm \u2013 Screening and Discussion of Color of Pomegranates<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Location: Ray Stark Theater<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12:30 pm-2:15 pm \u2013 Panel 4: Politics and Violence<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anahit Mikayelyan (Sergei Parajanov Museum), \u201cEthnography of Prison According to Parajanov\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simon Garibyan (USC), \u201cThe Time to Live, the Time to Die: Necropoetics in the Early Cinema of Sergei Parajanov\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tetyana Dzyadevych (Grinnell College), \u201cKyivan Frescos<\/em>: Bridging Past and Future. A Film Not Meant to Be\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2:15 pm-2:30 pm \u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2:30 pm-4:15 pm \u2013 Panel 5: Performance and Performativity<\/p>\n\n\n\n J\u0101nis Ozoli\u0146\u0161 (Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art of the University of Latvia), \u201cQueer Genealogy of Archaic Modernism and Camp: Sergei Parajanov, Gunars Piesis, and Pier Paolo Pasolini\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aram Bajakian (University of British Columbia), \u201cA Multitude of Soundtracks: Consent and the Aural Landscape of The Color of Pomegranates<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arpi Movsesian (University of Notre Dame), \u201cParajanov and the Sacred: The Sensual Play of a \u2018Simple Buffoon\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4:15 pm-4:30 pm \u2013 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4:30 pm-5:30 pm \u2013 Keynote: Olga Kim (Williams College), \u201cCinema on the Edge: Sergei Parajanov\u2019s Collage and Tableau Aesthetics as Forms of History\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5:30 pm-7:00 pm \u2013 Dinner for participants<\/p>\n\n\n\n Location: Ray Stark Theater<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7:00 pm \u2013 Introduction, Screening, and Discussion of Ashik Kerib<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nFriday, February 23 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Saturday, February 24 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n