Chicago Film Seminar: July 2010

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2012-13 Schedule of Speakers

Oct 25: Opening Night:

Haidee Wasson
Dept: Concordia University in Montreal
Topic: Protocols of Portability and Projection: Technologies of the Small Screen at Mid-Century
Response: Jacob Smith (Northwestern)

Nov 29: Volker Pantenburg
Dept: Bauhaus University Weimar
Visiting: UIC
Topic: Scanning Landscape: Notes on the Politics and Economy of the Pan

Response: Daniel Eisenberg (SAIC)

Jan 17: Graduate Student Panel:

Matt Hauske

Dept: UChicago (Ph.D.)

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

Dept: Northwestern (Ph.D.)

Topic: "Horizontality and Monumentality"

Response: Don Crafton (Notre Dame)

Feb 7: Thomas Elsaesser

Dept: University of Amsterdam

Response: Tom Gunning (UChicago)

March 21: Luisela Alvaray

Dept: DePaul

Topic: Claiming the Past: Venezuelan Historical Films and Public Politics

Response: Gilberto Blasini (UW-Milwaukee)

April 18: Susan Ohmer

Dept: Notre Dame

Topic: Animation and Cultural Geography: Disney and Standard Oil Remap the U.S.

Response: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola)

2011-12 Schedule of Speakers

Oct 13: Opening Night: Hamid Naficy
Dept: Northwestern
Topic: Early Iranian Cinema's Production Mode
Response: Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (Columbia College)

Nov 17: Eivind Røssaak
Dept: National Library of Norway
Visiting: U.Chicago
Topic: The Performative Archive: The Archival Turn in Film, Art and New Media Practices
Response: Domietta Torlasco (Northwestern)

Dec 1: Graduate Student Panel:
Catherine Clepper
Dept: Northwestern (Ph.D.)
Topic: Death by Fright: Risk, Consent, and Sensation in the House of William Castle
Adam Hart
Dept: U.Chicago (Ph.D.)
Topic: Something to Be Scared Of: Fear, Anxiety and Phobia in the Horror Film
Response: James Lastra (U.Chicago) and Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern)

Jan 19: Winter Re-Opening Event: Miriam Petty
Dept: Northwestern
Topic: A Dance with Uncle Billy: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and African American Children's Spectatorship
Response: Karen Bowdre (Indiana)

Feb 2: Noa Steimatsky
Dept: U.Chicago
Topic: Death at Work: Barthes and Warhol Look at the Face
Response: Scott Durham (Northwestern)

March 8: Jim Collins
Dept: Notre Dame
Topic: Portable Devices and Playlist Culture
Response: Max Dawson (Northwestern)

April 12: Cinema and Experience- Commemorating the Life and Work of Miriam Hansen

May 10: Jane Gaines
Dept: Columbia University
Topic: A Melodrama Theory of Feminist Film Historiography
Response: Christine Gledhill (New York University)

2010-11
Schedule of Speakers

Sep 23: Roundtable Kickoff
Panelists: James Lastra, Lynn Spigel, Virginia Wright Wexman,and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Depts: U.Chicago, Northwestern, UIC, and Notre Dame, respectively
Topic: Dudley Andrew's What Cinema Is! and the state of film & media studies
Moderator: Scott Curtis (NU)

Oct 14: Christian Quendler
Dept: Innsbruck
Visiting: Northwestern
Topic: The Camera-Eye, Vertov and Descartes
Response: Yuri Tsivian (U.Chicago)

Nov 04: Andrew Johnston
Dept: U.Chicago (Ph.D.)
Topic: Abstract digital animations of the '60s and '70s
Response: Jon Cates (SAIC)

Dec 02: Mark Williams
Dept: Dartmouth
Topic: Real-Time Media Publics and Minority Report
Response: James F. Lastra (U.Chicago)

Jan 13: Dan Bashara
Dept: Northwestern (Ph.D.)
Topic: UPA Cartoons and Pre-War Modernism
Response: Bruce Jenkins (SAIC)

Feb 03: Greg Waller
Dept: U.Indiana
Topic: American cinema and the non-theatrical
Response: Scott Curtis (Northwestern)

Mar 03: Elena Gorfinkel
Dept: U.Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Topic: Allegories of Reception in 1960s Sexploitation Film
Response: Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern)

Apr 07: Michelle Citron
Dept: Columbia College
Topic: Cinema, Narrative and the Digital
Response: Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago)

May 05: Jacqueline Stewart
Dept: Northwestern
Topic: The archives of cinema
Response: TBA

Chicago Film Seminar

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