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Research
Current research activities:
1. Complex and systematic research on current artistic and societal functions of Slovak theatre within a changing Mid-Eastern Europe with regard to societal changes caused by the Velvet Revolution in 1989 to the present day. Slovak theatre culture, artistic and generational poetics of creative professionals, theatre institutionalisation in the context of close foreign cultures and trends, while taking into account both common and different conditions as well as historical connections – national cultures in terms of the direction and overlap of cultures in European countries (specific Slovak-Russian, Slovak-Polish and of course Slovak-Czech relations and inspirations; and also vice versa Russian-Slovak, Polish-Slovak and Czech-Slovak relations and inspirations).
2. Defining the character of changes in the Slovak film industry (representations, values, narrative schemes, rhetoric, the relationship between film and social reality), linking institutional film history to film aesthetic and creating a new periodisation of current Slovak cinema as part of the of the European cinema, cultural and research trends in film studies. Interdisciplinary research into the influence of engaged documentary filmmaking on film theories and studies, Anglo-American and French genre classification in comparison to Slovak documentary film.
3. Research into the so-called new institutionalised and national history of young Slovak theatre (professionalised since 1920) against the backdrop of the history of Central Europe, including older history of Central Europe, with particular attention to Czech and Slovak history, which despite the existence of common statehood since 1918 also developed separately from each other.
4. Research on the non-national theatre – schools, poetics, creative professionals, works, basic research linked to the international research context.
5. Post-traditional and popular cultural phenomena as part of new theatre history and theory: post-dramaturgy, post-drama and post-tradition – Slovak and Czech tendencies in the context of contemporary Central European and Western European culture and their theoretical treatment.
6. New identities as a form of social and political communication (minority cultures and art, minority vs majority), community theatre, theatre of marginalised groups (feminist theatre and drama, theatre by people with disabilities), engaged theatre in Slovakia as part of supported European cultural policy and artistic diversity. Constructing and deconstructing national identity in contemporary Slovak film and theatre – pros and cons of the regional perspective.
(Approach based on film and theatre studies involving interdisciplinary overlap – ethnology, social anthropology, culturology or the study of culture.)
Conferences and Seminars
Media and the Protection of Minors
Organizers: The Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission; Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS, Creative Indrustry Forum
Place/ date: Bratislava, 10. 12. 2015
5th Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe: Transformation Processes and New Screen Media Technologies
Organizers: Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS; Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava; Czech Society for Film Studies; Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno
Place/ date: Bratislava, 20. - 21. 11. 2015
A round table discussion on the project of the History of productions of the Slovak National Theatre in 1920-1938 (100 Years of the Slovak National Theatre)
Organizer: Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS
Place/ date: Bratislava, 12. 11. 2014
The Theatre of local Histories in Central Europe
Organizers: Theatre and Drama Division of the University of Silesia in Katovice (The Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies); Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS; Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts Palacký University in Olomouc; Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute Budapest Place/ date: Katowice, 24. 9. - 25. 9.2014
Theatre Directors on the Verge of Millennia
Organizers: Association of Slovak Theatre Critics and Theorists; Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS
Place/ date: Bratislava, 11. 9. 2014
A Plurality of Cultures in the Context of Audiovisual Studies within 15th Czech and Slovak Film Studies Conference Film and Cultural Memory
Organizers: Association of Slovak Film Clubs; Slovak Film Institute; Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS
Place/ date: Krpáčovo, 10.10. - 13.10.2013
The Images of Man in contemporary Slavic Drama literature within XV International Congress of Slavists
Organizers: International Committee of Slavists; Belarusian Committee of Slavists; National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Place/ date: Minsk, 20. - 27. 8. 2013
Theatre Transformations (on the Artistic Development and Change of the Social Contexts of Theatre)
Organizer: Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS
Place/ date: Bratislava, 13. - 14. 6. 2013
Art Sciences and History of Culture
Organizers: Institute of Art History SAS; Institute of World Literature SAS; Institute of Musicology SAS; Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS; Institute of Slovak Literature SAS; Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics SAS
Place/ date: Bratislava, 20. - 21. 3. 2013
Scientific Seminar – round table Artistic and Social Roles of Contemporary Slovak Theatre
Organizer: Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS
Place/ date: Bratislava, 11. 10. 2012
Generational Metamorphoses and the Forms of Slovak Theatre (from the 1980s until Today)
Organizers: Association of Slovak Theatre Critics and Theorists; Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS
Place/ date: Bratislave, 18. 6. 2012
Slovakia-Russian Conference Slavic Literatures, Cultures and Languages of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century
Organizers: Institute of World Literature SAS, Institute of Theatre and Film Research SAS, Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics SAS, Faculty of Philosophy M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Slovak Institute in Moscow
Place/ date: Moskva, 20. 3. 2012
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