This collaborative workshop is designed to develop transregional approaches in cultural studies, in particular the field of Romance and Slavic studies. It evolved around research interests at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) and the University of Regensburg (UR). We set out to examine the bonds between people and places, in particular, we are interested in comparative research about landscapes and cityscapes as well as their manifold mediatized representations, i.e. concrete local arenas as perceived by humans and addressed in their communicative processes. They can be found in literature, film, theater, social media, video games etc. We understand those landscapes not only as outcomes of cognitive procedures; what is of no less importance for our research is their affective quality (Clough 2007, Berberich et al. 2015) – the physical, bodily, maybe emotional reaction a landscape evokes.
Teilnehmer, Teilnehmerinnen und Vorträge:
Anne Brüske: "The Darien Gap as a Violent Contact Zone in Audiovisual Documentaries"
Bohdan Chuma: Lviv (Lemberg) and Galicia in the Representations of Spanish Reporters During the Wars of 1914-1919
Sofiya Filonenko: Martian Landscape as Zone of Contact in Contemporary Ukrainian Speculative Fiction
Guido Hausmann: to be announced
Ralf Junkerjürgen: A Contact Zone of Crime and Violence: The Strait of Gibraltar in Spanish Audiovisual Fiction (El niño; La Unidad, etc.)
Sabine Koller: Zones of Violence, Shadows of Shame: The Pogroms in Ukraine (1918-1922) in Yiddish literature
Natalia Kovalchuk: "Occupation? - No, just visiting. Russian Travel Narratives About Lviv on the Brink of the Full-Scale War"
Mirja Lecke: Inscribing Humanity into the Forest: Agnieszka Holland’s “The Green Border” (2023)
Vladyslava Moskalets: Jews in the Carpathians: The Transformative Power of Landscape in 20th Century Polish and Yiddish Literature
Oleksandr Pronkevych: The Atacama Desert in the Film Nostalgia de Luz (2010) by Patricio Guzmán as a Landscape of Contact Between the Past and the Present
Bohndan Shumylovych: Three Films from the Three Hills: Interwar and Soviet Cinematic Imagination About the Carpathian Mountains
Volodymyr Sklokin: The Ambivalence of the Northern Black Sea Steppe in the Russian Imperial Imagination: The Case of Vasilii Zuev's "Journey from St Petersburg to Kherson" (1787)
Alina Strzempa: Upper Silesian Filmic Trilogy by Kazimierz Kutz: National, Regional, or Ethnographic Landscapes?
Viktoriya Sukovata (Leipzig) Exile, emigration and violent relocation of scientists in Soviet time and memory on it in public space of Kharkiv
Oleksandr Zabirko: The Zone of Exclusion as a Spatial and Ecological Concept in Films and Videogames [“S.T.A.L.K.E.R”, “Atlantis”, “La Zona”, etc.]
Tagungsort:
"Haus der Begegnung“ der UR Hinter der Grieb 8