Media School faculty, students to present at SCMS conference
The Media School Report
March 13, 2024
Fourteen faculty members and students will attend and present at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Boston from March 13-17.
The conference allows scholars to share research, network, and learn from their peers. It will include panels, workshops, roundtables, seminars, and special events.
Faculty
Workshop chair: Artists as Knowledge-makers and Scholars as Artists
“Vertov and Zilnik”
“Assembling the Ingredients of Culinary Celebrity: Parma Lakshmi and the Multi-Platform Food Industrial Imaginary”
Panel co-chair: Endurance Media: Making, Breaking and Remaking the Body
“You are What You Drink: Gaming Beverages as ‘Consuming’ Bodies”
Students
Panel chair: (Re)Contextualizing Play: Time, Space, and Place in Mobile Game Design
“Distraction vs. Immersion: Vernacular Platform Theory and the Origins of American Mobile Game Design”
“Shouting and Crying: Vococentrism in ‘Shiva Baby'”
Panel chair: Moving Bodies: Gender and Asian Identities
“The crisis with Indian masculinity: Ayushmann Khurrana and the emergence of soft Indian masculinity”
“#IntergenerationalTrauma as Narrative Capture on Instagram: Exploring Racialized Subjectivities in Circulation”
Panel chair: Complicating Borders, Creating Community: Methods in Media Industries Studies
“Dreaming the World Differently: the Cultural Politics of the Silk Road International Film Festival in China”
Panel chair: The Cold War Sensorium: Aesthetics and Politics of Screen Cultures in Global Asias
“Widescreen in Cold War Taiwan, 1950s-1960s”
Panel chair: Gross me out!: Frameworks for Medical Knowledge Across Media
“Seeing Disease in Methyl Violet: Hitochemistry and the Understanding of Tuberculosis (1882-1926)”
Workshop: Cruel Productivity? Navigating the Neoliberal Academy
