Sunday 26th September

Film andthe End of EmpirePittsburgh 24th-26th September 2010University Club 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Conference Schedule

9.30 am - 10.30am The Second World War - Chair: Nancy Condee

Ashley Jackson and Richard Osborne

10.30 am - 11.30 1945-1955 - Chair: Vladimir Padunov

Gareth Austin and Tom Rice

11.30 am - 12.30 pm 1955-1965 - Chair: Colin MacCabe

Pat Manning and Francis Gooding

12.30 pm - 1.00 pm Final Responses - Chair: Lee GrievesonLaura Mulvey and Tony Bogues

West Indies Calling (1944, 14 mins)A Selection of ‘rushes’ from IWM (10 mins)

Colonial Cinemagazine 9 (1947, 7 mins)Progress in Kojokrom (1953, 21 mins)

Giant in the Sun (1959, 19 mins)

Saturday 25th September9.30 am - 10.30am Pria Jaikumar Keynote - Chair: Lee GrievesonPlace/Map/Archive: Colonial and Film Historiography’s Spatial Crisis

10.30 am - 10.45 am Break

10.45 am - 12.45 pm AFRICA - Chair: Patrice Nganang

Charles Ambler The Mobile Cinema in Kenya: Film Shows in the Era of DecolonizationRosaleen Smyth Images of Empire on shifting sands: the Colonial Film Unit in West AfricaPhilip Zachermuk Who needs a Witch doctor? African Activists and the Re-imagining of Africa in the 1940sJacqueline Maingard Colonial film production in Africa: British colonialism’s civilising mission in Chisoko the African (1949) and Mau Mau (1954)

12.45 pm - 1.30 pm Lunch

1.30 pm - 3.00 pm Malaya - Chair: Lucy Fischer

Richard MacDonald Teaching and Learning Film in the Malayan Emergency: The Legacies of the Malayan Film UnitHassan Muthalib Winning hearts and minds: the films of the Malayan Film Unit in 1950s British Malaya

3.00 pm - 3.3o pm Break

3.30 pm - 5.30 pm Rountable on Archives - Chair: Colin MacCabeJennifer Blaylock, Franklyn St Juste, Niko DeKlerk and Patrick Russell

Nairobi (1950, 8 mins)Mau Mau (1954, 19 mins)

Extract from Williams Collection - local leave 1959 (5 mins)

The Knife (1952, 8 mins)A New Life (1951, 7 mins)

Extract from Rhodes’ James amateur footage (12 mins)

Friday 24th September9.15 am Introduction & Black BalanceColin MacCabe The Arts and Humanities Research Council ProjectPatrick Russell The British Film Institute ArchiveKay Gladstone The Imperial War Museum ArchiveFilipa Cesar Introducing Black Balance

10.00 am Paul Gilroy Keynote - Chair: Colin MacCabeGreat games: war, film and working through Britain’s colonial legacy

11.15 am - 11.30 am Break

11.30 am - 1.30 pm Sri Lanka - Chair: Shalini Puri

David Trotter Representing Connection: A Multimedia Approach to Colonial FilmArjuna Parakama Title tbc.

1.30 pm - 2.15 pm Lunch

2.15 pm - 4.15 pm India - Chair: Neepa Majundrar

Ashish Rajadhyaksha Legacies of the War: the ‘Approved’ Film, the Masterpiece, and State Policy on Indian Cinema after Independance.Ravi Vasudevan Title tbc.

4.15 pm - 4.45 pm Break

4.45 pm - 6.15 pm The Caribbean - Chair: June Givanni

Terri Francis Lost Primer on Histories of Film and Consciousness in JamaicaVron Ware Title tbc.

Scenes in Ceylon (1909, 8 mins)Negombo Coast (1934, 9 mins)

Eastern Rose (1942, 6 mins)Fortress Ceylon (1945, 9 mins)

Hillmen go to War (1944, 10 mins)Indian News Parade 62 (1944, 8 mins)

District Officer (1945, 13 mins)

Spotlight on the Colonies (1950, 10 mins)Churchill Visits Jamaica (1953, 12 mins)

From Cane to Cube (1950, 20 mins)