Film Screenings: Day Two of Two @ Loria 250
This event focuses on how rock music in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia) contributed to the fall of the oppressive communist regimes.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23
11:00 Screening: THE PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE, dir. Jana Chytilová, 2001, 74 min.
(Rock music in the former Czechoslovakia). Introduction: Karen von Kunes, Sr. Lector in Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale. Followed by Q&A
1:00 Lunch for participants
2:00 - 3:30 Screening: BEATS OF FREEDOM by Leszek Gnoinski, Wojciech Slota, 2010, 73 min (Rock music in Poland). Introduction: Tomek Lipiński, co-founder of Rock band, Brygada Kryzys
3:45 ROCK SESSION & ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION featuring: Karen von Kunes (Yale), Tomek Lipinski, Rita Safariants, Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale, Bryan Swirsky, Julia Titus, Sr. Lector in Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale. Moderated by Daria Ezerova, PhD candidate of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale.