Pavel Skopal - Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural “New Order” and Local Structures

is a film historian and the founding director of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute. He has published numerous articles about Dutch film production, distribution, and exhibition, with a particular focus on the period of the Second World War. He has published in international journals such as the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

works at the Film Studies Department, Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Prague. She graduated from Charles University with a degree in film studies (2011 dissertation on Bohemia-Moravian Film Union) and completed studies in film and television production at FAMU in Prague. She is an assistant professor at the Film Studies department at Charles University, specialized editor of the peer-reviewed journal for performing arts ArteActa, and council member for the Czech Film Fund. Dvokov is the author of studies focusing on the history of Czech cinema, the economic and production history of film, film politics, and film education. She co-authored the monographs Prag-Film AG 19411945 (etk, 2008), Generace normalizace. Ztracen generace eskho filmu? (Generation of Normalization. The Lost Generation of Czech Film?, 2016), Jak vznikl film (How Cinema Was Born, 2017), and Jak se dl film (How a Film Is Made, 2019).

is a Norwegian historian with a PhD degree from the University of Agder (2018). He currently holds the positions of Researcher and Head of Department at ARKIVET Peace and Human Rights Center in Kristiansand. Hagen has previously published books and articles and contributed to exhibitions about the Holocaust, the concentration camp (KZ) system, Norwegian cinema, propaganda, the German Security Police (Sipo/SD), civilian resistance, memory politics, and cultural memory.

is Professor of Film, Radio and Television at Kiel University of Applied Sciences and the University of Flensburg, Germany. He has published widely on film and television history as well as transnational media cultures. He is associate editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and the Journal of Popular Television.

is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin. The working title of her thesis is Implementation of national socialist film propaganda in the occupied territories of the Russian, Byelorussian and the Ukrainian SSR, 19411944.

studied modern history and Eastern European history at the Heinrich Heine University in Dsseldorf (19992005). As part of an exchange project between the universities in Dsseldorf and Prague, he worked as a DAAD tutor at the Institute for International Studies (Institut mezinrodnch studi) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague (20032004, 2010). His dissertation is titled Nazi cultural policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (20062011). From 2011 to 2016, he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for the History and Cultures of Eastern Europe, Heinrich Heine University Dsseldorf. Since 2016 he has been working at the Volkshochschule-Musikschule Bad Homburg v.d. Hhe.

received his PhD in cinema studies (for the thesis The German films in Moselle after annexation by Nazi Germany (19401945): A history of a forgotten pleasure focused on cinema in Moselle during World War II and the consumption of German films by French spectators). He received the national award Sciences en Lumire from the CNRS in 2018. He is currently teaching at the University of Lorraine and coordinating a scientific study on the Villerupt International Italian Film Festival as well as writing and directing a documentary film. His ongoing research is primarily focused on the film market during the Second World War.

is an associate professor in the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. In 20102012 he was a visiting researcher at the Konrad Wolf Film and Television University in Potsdam, Germany (on a research project supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). Together with Lars Karl he coedited an anthology devoted to the Czechoslovak and East German film industries in the 1950s (