Conference archive
This page contains an archive of the proceedings of past Common Ground conferences.
March 27, 2020 — Virtual
2:15 p.m.
Keynote speaker: Professor Radhika Parameswaran
3 to 3:30 p.m.
Roundtable on Media in the Age of the Pandemic
Logan Brown, Brent Hale, Jared Meisinger, Lexi Newman
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Lightning round presentations (five-minute talks)
Read an article about the conferenceFriday, April 9
9:45-10 a.m.
Opening remarks by conference chair Narmeen Ijaz and Media School Graduate Association chair Xan Smith
10-11 a.m.
Keynote address: “Peaks and Freaks: Approaching Floods as Mass Media Events”
Stephanie C. Kane, professor, Department of International Studies, IU Bloomington
Moderated by: Khurram Nawaz Sheikh
11:10 a.m.-12:25 p.m.
Framing Ideologies through Media: Legitimacy and Reconfigurations
Moderated by Jacob Eddy
- Lucia Cores Sarria, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “The joy of overload: Intensified (dis)Continuity in K-dramas”
- Cole Nelson, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Corresponding with the Revolution: 'Correspondence' and the Problematics of a Workers' Newspaper”
- Osman Mohamed Osman, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Media Framing of Westgate Mall Terror Attack: A Comparative Examination of News Frames Employed by U.S. and Kenyan Newspapers”
12:35 p.m.-1:35 p.m.
Keynote Address: “Communicating Health Risks in a Glocalized World”
Esi Thompson, assistant professor, The Media School, IU Bloomington
Moderated by Narmeen Ijaz
2-3:15 p.m.
Transforming Cultures: Digital interfaces, Platformization and Community-building
Moderated by Cole Stratton
- Kimberley Bianca, Critical Media Practices, University of Colorado-Boulder: “circuitBoard: an Ecomedia Platform for Critical Making”
- Forrest Greenwood, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Platform Afterlife: The Nintendo DS and the Challenges of Videogame Preservation”
- Ken Rosenberg, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Talking about chatting: What our Overcooked 2 experiment can tell us about studying online video game play”
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Media Objects
Moderated by Narmeen Ijaz
- Sean Purcell, The Media School, IU Bloomington: Live-streamed demo of a video installation
- Caleb Allison, The Media School, IU Bloomington: short film
- Khurram Nawaz Sheikh, The Media School, IU Bloomington: experimental film
Saturday, April 10
10-11:15 a.m.
Politics of Representation: Experimental Cinema, Media Arts and Game Design
Moderated by Chih Ju (Carol) Lin
- Sean Purcell, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Remediating Medicine: Creative Historiographic Praxis and its Violence”
- Anthony Silvestri, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Onan in the Anger Archives: Exhibition, New American Cinema and the Japanese Avant-Garde, 1963-1969”
- Xan Smith, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Choose your gender: Exploring character creation and avatar choice for non-binary video game players”
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Keynote Address: “Mapping the Global Conjuncture: Nationalism and Covid-19”
Ishan Ashutosh, assistant professor, Department of Geography, IU Bloomington
Moderated by Mallika Khanna
1-2:15 p.m.
Reconfiguring Media Ecologies: Technology, Infrastructures and Globalization
Moderated by Hailey Pierce
- Caleb Allison, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Rediscovered, Restored, and Released: Milestone Film & Video’s Restorative Politics”
- Cole Stratton, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “The Political Ecology of iPhone 5c Polycarbonate”
- Bailey Troutman, Communication, University of Colorado-Boulder: “Cooling the Cloud: Water complexities of Internet sustainability”
2:30-4 p.m.
Globalization and South Asia: Perspectives towards Transnational Media Flows
Moderated by Professor Radhika Parameswaran
- Navdeep Sharma, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: “The Development Film in Post-Independence India: an Analysis of the Film Sponsorship Practices of three Transnational Agencies”
- Christian M. James, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, IU Bloomington: “Baṛā Mazā Aye: Co-present Performance and Cultural Flow in North Indian Feminist Song”
- Mallika Khanna, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Desi Diasporic Cultural Entrepreneurs: Trauma, Self-branding and Self-Empowerment in Social Media Spaces”
- Khurram Nawaz Sheikh, The Media School, IU Bloomington: “Entanglements of Local, Global and Regional Scales: Role of Film Talents Workshop for Cultural Diplomacy in Pakistan”
5-6:30 p.m.
Closing remarks
Networking events: informal roundtable
Awards ceremony
Award winners
Four students won awards at the Common Ground Conference 2021. The winners were also awarded monetary prizes for their innovative research and media-based projects. Fellow presenters and attendees of the conference voted on the awards.
Best paper
First place: Lucia Cores Sarria, "The Joy of Overload: Intensified (dis)Continuity in K-dramas"
Second place: Khurram Nawaz Sheikh, "Entanglements of Local, Global and Regional Scales: Role of Film Talents Workshop for Cultural Diplomacy in Pakistan"
Third place: Xan Smith, "Choose your gender: Exploring character creation and avatar choice for non-binary video game players"
Best presentation
Khurram Nawaz Sheikh, "Entanglements of Local, Global and Regional Scales: Role of Film Talents Workshop for Cultural Diplomacy in Pakistan"
Best practice-based research
Sean Purcell, "Remediating Medicine: Creative Historiographic Praxis and its Violence"