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Lecturer

“The Modular Man: Copyright, Continuity and Character” in the panel, “Stars and Characters”

Associate professor

“Screen Ecology Project: Campus Space, Media Art, and the Inhabited Digital Archive” in the panel, “Ecological Approaches to Media”

Associate professor

Respondent in the panel, “The Laboring Body: Race and Gender in Radical Cinema”

Associate professor

“Violent Femmes” in the panel, Female Horror Filmmakers Aesthetics, Gender Politics, and Genre”

Professor emerita

“Black Casablanca: WWII, African-American Film Culture, and Hollywood Stardom in the 1940s” in the panel “Forgotten African American Film Histories”

Auditor in the seminar, “Wigging out with the Americans: Cold War Melodrama in the Quality TV Era”

Assistant professor

“Stimulating Heterosexuality?: Sex Media, Aversion Therapy and The Farrall Instrument Company Circa 1973” in the panel, “Sex: Good, Bad and Otherwise”

Professor

Respondent in the panel, “Films at the Fair: Cultural Histories of Moving Images and World Expositions”

“Collecting the Uncollectible: Residual Hardware, Streaming Aesthetics and the Criterion Collection,” in the panel, “Streaming Across Media”

“Stylish Stars and Typical Teens: Celebrity Cover Girls of the 2000s” in the panel, “Making the Girl: Mediated Constructions of Girlhood” (panel chair)

Participant in the seminar, “21st Century Women Targeted Media”

“Film Diplomacy in the U.S.-Turkey Communication Network” in the panel, “Diplomatic Activism: Reanimating the Global USIA Motion Picture Corpus and Its Archival Remnants” (panel chair)

“‘Watching, But Not Too Much’: Managing the Attention and Distraction Boundary in Binge-Watching Practices” in the panel, “Television Audiences and Fans in the Streaming Era”

“Multiple Melodramas: Melodramatic Influences and Their Uses in the Cinema of John Waters” in the panel, “Queer Auteur, Queer Genre”

Chair of the roundtable, “Physical Media and Pedagogy in Archival Practice and Course Development”

“Legal Jurisdiction and the Movies: Partnerships, Parties, and Havana’s Teatro Campoamor” in the panel, “Death, Lawyers, and Taxes: New Approaches to U.S. Film History”

Pallavi Rao

“Mapping ‘Indian Culture’: Caste as Pleasurable Consumption in Indian Lifestyle Journalism” in the panel, “Indian Culture Across Media”

Participant in the seminar, “The Content Era”

“Only An Illusion: The Racial Politics of Advertising Augmented and Mixed Reality” in the panel, “Science and Technology in Media”

“Archive D’Artifice: Kenneth Anger and the Kinsey Institute” in the panel, “Queering Archives: Film and Television”

“The Smartphone as World-Ecology: Conceptualizing and Mapping the Planetary Processes in your Pocket” in the panel, “Ecological Approaches to Media” (panel chair)