The conference consisted of panels, workshops, roundtables, seminars, and special events, giving these scholars the opportunity to share their research, network, and learn from their peers.
Faculty
“Cinematic Rubble, Modernity, and Futurity”
Panel chair: Women on Screen and Behind the Camera in Contemporary International Horror
Panel Chair: Cold War Formats Nontheatrical, Industrial, and Educational Cinemas in the Midcentury
“Black Film Center & Archive and Social Justice”
Panel chair: Classical Hollywood Cinema Unbound Adaptations across Media and Time
“The Generative Power of ‘Bad’ Adaptations: 1943–44 Radio Versions of Casablanca and Wartime Sound Cultures”
Students
Panel Chair: “Production, Aesthetics, and Identity”
Panel chair: Black Archives in Practice
“What’s Your Favorite Memory of Detroit?’:Archival Embodiment and Black Bottoms Archives”
“Cinephilia at a Propagandist Film Festival: A Case Study of the SRIFF in Fuzhou, China”
“What is ‘Modern’ about ‘Modern Cinema’ (xiandai dianying)?— Andre Bazin and New Wave Cinemas in Taiwan, 1960s–1970s”
“Chornobyl Ukrainian Documentaries in a Land of Fear and Panic”
“Human and Nonhuman Intra-action in ‘Le quattro volte’”
“Time, Reality, and Contingency in Alice Rohrwacher’s Cinema”
Panel Chair: Recasting Accountability Industrial Critiques Across the Media Landscape
“On The Digitized Circulation of Racial Self Help Modalities”
“What’s a Film to a Platform?: Content Moderation, Online Archiving, and Taste Politics in the Case of The Movie Database”
“Revisiting Ethics in Feminist Documentary: Implications of Class and Privilege in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Films”
