Animafest Scanner VII: Symposium for Contemporary Animation Studies

29–30/09 TUE-WED 10:00–16:00h &TD, Savska cesta 25

Animated Anxieties: Apocalypse as Both Warning and Desire - Jack McGrath (The University of Newcastle, Australia)

Panel 1: HEAVY LIKE THE WORLD: ANIMATION IN THE WORLD OF CHAOS 29/09 TUE 10:10–10:40h &TD

Protest, Panic and Pandemic: Animated Abstraction and Meaning in Hong Kong’s Age of Chaos - Max Hattler (City University of Hong Kong)

Panel 1: HEAVY LIKE THE WORLD: ANIMATION IN THE WORLD OF CHAOS 29/09 TUE 10:45–11:15h &TD

City of Pirates and the Social Chaos - Eliane M. Gordeeff (Quadro Vermelho Produções/CIEBA-FBAUL/Veiga de Almeida University, Almada, Portugal)

Panel 1: HEAVY LIKE THE WORLD: ANIMATION IN THE WORLD OF CHAOS 29/09 TUE 11:20–11:50h &TD

When We Look Closer, We See Chaos: Contemporary Animation and Microscopic Vitality - Vera Schamal (Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Panel 1: HEAVY LIKE THE WORLD: ANIMATION IN THE WORLD OF CHAOS 29/09 TUE 12:05–12:35h &TD

Cinema Emek, Cinema Labour, Cinema Travail: The Revitalization of Istanbul’s Urban Past and the Emek Theatre as a Lieu de Mémoire - Cansu van Gageldonk (Kaboom Animation Festival / Bread University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Panel 1: HEAVY LIKE THE WORLD: ANIMATION IN THE WORLD OF CHAOS 29/09 TUE 12:40–13:10h &TD

Viral Animation: Memes May Be Taking Control of Your Phone - João Paulo Schlittler (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Panel 1: HEAVY LIKE THE WORLD: ANIMATION IN THE WORLD OF CHAOS 29/09 TUE 13:15–13:450h &TD

KEYNOTE: Heavy Like the World – Did Animation Stop Being Funny? - Chris Robinson (Animafest Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies)

KEYNOTE 29/09 TUE 15:00–16:00h &TD

Emerging History – Trailblazing Women of Our Animated Past - Mindy Johnson (CalArts / AMPAS California, USA)

Panel 2: WOMEN IN ANIMATION 30/09 WED 10:05–10:35h &TD

The Polish Animation Tradition Updated: Some Reconfigurations from a Female and Feminist Perspective - Miriam Harris (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

Panel 2: WOMEN IN ANIMATION 30/09 WED 10:40–11:10h &TD

Are Animated Adult Sitcoms Stuck in the Fifties? - Sarah Ann Kennedy Parr (University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK)

Panel 2: WOMEN IN ANIMATION 30/09 WED 11:15–11:45h &TD

Women in Balkan Animation - Mina Sablić Papajić (MA in Cultural Studies, Belgrade, Serbia)

Panel 2: WOMEN IN ANIMATION 30/09 WED 12:00–12:30h &TD