April 26th and 27th, 2019
15th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Department of Cinema and Media Studies
University of Chicago

Keynote Speaker: Paula Amad, Associate Professor and Department Chair, The Department of Cinematic Arts, The University of Iowa

Organising committee: Sean Batton, Ritika Kaushik, and Cinta Pelejà

Sponsors:

The Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago
The Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago
The Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
The Department of Art History at the University of Chicago
The Department of English at the University of Chicago
The Department of South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Chicago
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago

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Schedule:

April 26th

Opening Remarks | 5:00 PM
Prof. Allyson Nadia Field
University of Chicago

Keynote | 5:00 PM
“Shadow Sites: The Archival Life of Film Before and Beyond Archives”

Prof. Paula Amad
University of Iowa

April 27th

Breakfast | 9:00 AM

PANEL 1 | 9:30 AM

Scratching for memory: the coal dispute, community video archives and Orgreave
Alex Wilson | Sheffield Hallam University

Architecture as Erasure: Documentary, Photography and Memory of the Urban Space
Oliver Aas | Cornell University

The Body as Archive: Embodying, Documenting, and Performing Political Discourse
Hannah Bonner | University of Iowa

PANEL 2 | 11:15 AM

Archives at Risk: Educational Film and the University of Florida 16mm Film Archive
Lauren Burrell Cox | University of Florida

The Festival Is Now Loading: Digital Traces and Film Festival Historiography
Matt St. John | University of Wisconsin-Madison

Speculative Opacity: Cheryl Dunye and Zoe Leonard’s Fae Richards Photo Archive
Indiana Seresin | University of Cambridge

—-Lunch—

PANEL 3 | 2:00 PM

Their Rightful Place: Home Videos and Diegetic Extension
Madison Brown | Northwestern University

Remembering a Queer Past: Archiving 1970’s LGBTQIA + History in the Work of Richard Silverthorn
Allison R. G. Ross | University of Southern California

Documenting Home: 631 and the Personal Archive
Derrick A. Jones | Georgia State University

PANEL 4 | 3:45 PM

Queering the Hollywood Archive
Marie-Pierre Burquier| Université Paris Diderot – Paris VII

Moving the Picture: The Repurposing of the Anthropological Photographic Archive in Damiana Kryygi and Embrace of the Serpent
Marco Meneghin | Concordia University

The Malleable Archive: Mediating Testimonies, Contesting in Mediations
Xiuhe Zhang | UC Santa Barbara

Concluding Round Table | 5:30 PM
Prof. Paula Amad | University of Iowa
Prof. Allyson Nadia Field | University of Chicago
Prof. Jennifer Wild | University of Chicago
and Michelle Citron | Filmmaker and Prof. Emerita, Columbia College

—–Closing Reception—-

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