Events

The 2021 CMS Graduate Student Conference "Site/Seeing" is being organized by Jenisha Borah, Maggie Sivit, and Ashley Truehart. This conference had been delayed from 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

Previous Conferences and Organizers:

• 2019 "Documenting the Archive", organized by Sean Batton, Rita Kaushik, and Cinta Peleja. Keynote address - Paula Amad (University of Iowa)
• 2018 "Sensing Media", organized by Dave Burnham, Gary Kafer, and Amy Skjerseth. Keynote address - Mark Hansen (Duke University)
• 2017 "Trauma and Melodrama", organized by AP Pettinelli, Tyler Schroeder, and Tien-Tien Jong Zhang. Keynote address - Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University)
• 2015 "Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen", organized by Matt Hubbell, Noa Merkin, and Nicole Morse. Keynote address - Elena Gorfinkel (UW-Milwaukee)

Mihaela Mihailova, Michigan State University "Computer Generated Ideology: The Neoliberal Multi-Verse of Contemporary US Studio Animation" Hannah Frank Memorial Lecture (February 28 2020) 

"We Tell: States of Violence" with Jacqueline Stewart, Louis Messiah, and Maira Khwaja (January 16 2020)

Autumn and Winter FSC Graduate Student Curatorials:  

• Dave Burnham - "Devotional Form: Films by Nathaniel Dorsky" (February 7 2020)
• Sasha Crawford-Holland - "Indigenous Futurisms in VR" (November 14-15 2019)
• Panpan Yang - screening of "Sacrificed Youth (青春祭)" (November 8 2019)

"Blaxploitation Horror Double Feature: Blacula (1972) and Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)" introduced by Allyson Field (November 1 2019)

"The Attractions of the Moving Image: A Celebration of Tom Gunning" (October 25-26 2019)

Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota "The “Modern Child” and the Moving Image: Studying Children and Cinema during the Cold War" (October 17 2019)