CFP: Backward Glances 2019: REBOOT (Northwestern’s Graduate Student Conference)
When: September 27-28, 2019 Submission Deadline: June 15, 2019 Fuller House, Twin Peaks, Spiderman, Roseanne, The Twilight Zone, Tomb Raider. Our popular film and television landscape is inundated with those media properties now popularly known as reboots. Whether the proliferation of reboots constitutes a true revival, giving…
CFP: Media Culture of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific – DUE APRIL 30
The Media Fields Editorial Collective at the UC Santa Barbara Department of Film & Media Studies is currently accepting submissions for Media Fields Issue 15, “Media Cultures of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific,” co-edited by Xiuhe Zhang and Tyler Morgenstern. Submissions are now due…
Upcoming Event: The Eye of the Night: Homosexuality, Death, and the Unknown in Stranger by the Lake and Beach Rats
Where: CJ Building, Room 2.130, Concordia University When: Thursday, April 4, 5:00 – 7:00 PM This event is part of the Feminist Media Studio’s 5 à 7 Speaker Series. The night has long played a central, if unremarked, role in cinematic representations…
Upcoming Event: The Afterlife of Militant Cinema: Symposium and Roundtable, April 5 @ GEM Lab
When: April 5, 1-5:30 @ GEM Lab *Including a Screening of Third World Newsreel classics (April 6, 7pm @EV 1.605)* In recent years, we have witnessed increasing global inequalities that have generated forced migrations, the return of policed borders, and the resurgence…
CFP: University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate Film Conference, “Limits of Cinema/Cinema Limited?”
When: September 27-28, 2019 Keynote: Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University) The cinematic medium has been historically shaped through several negotiations with its own limits and those imposed on it. Regulatory scrutiny of the moving image began as early as the peepshows…
Applications for the “Oksana and John Locke Award: The First 100 Years of Cinema” Due March 15!
The “Oksana and John Locke Award: The First 100 Years of Cinema” will be disbursed at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. Over a period of years, Oksana Dykyj and John Locke have made contributions to create an endowment…
Upcoming Event: Living Black Studies – A Conference at Concordia March 15-16
LIVING BLACK STUDIES is a two-day conference that aims to reimagine Black Studies in Canada. Looking within the Concordia community and beyond, LIVING BLACK STUDIES seeks to actively rethink how we teach, learn, and experience Blackness in our academic institutions…
Call for Submissions: Animating LGBTQ+ Representations: Queering the Production of Movement
Submissions are now open for the upcoming special issue of Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, “Animating LGBTQ+ Representations: Queering the Production of Movement.” The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2019. At the heart of animation is…
Upcoming Event: VOX Populi: the ABC of Revolution, a presentation by Lara Baladi
When: Wednesday February 20th, 6 PM Where: GEM Lab Vox Populi is an ongoing project by Lara Baladi, including a series of media initiatives, artworks, publications, an open source timeline and portal into web based archives of the 2011 Egyptian…
Upcoming Event: Symposium on Digital Asia: Migrant Mediations, (Self)-Surveillance, and Smart Urbanism
Where: GEM Lab, FB 630.15 (1250 Guy Street, 6th Floor) When: February 18, 9:30 AM About the event: Please join us for a one-day symposium on the theme Digital Asia, with invited speakers Feng-Mei Heberer (New York University) and Fan Yang…
The CGFSSA is seeking volunteers and proposals for the annual Masters student colloquium!
The Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student Association is currently planning the annual Masters student colloquium, “Emerging Ideas in Film and Media Studies” on April 25. The event is a great chance for us to share our research and writing, and to get…
Upcoming Event: Special Screening of “The Independents” + Q&A
Where: Concordia University – DeSève Cinema When: Saturday, February 16th, 6:00-10:00 PM Synopsis: The Independents is a musical comedy/drama about three struggling singer-songwriters whose chance-meeting rekindles each of their fading dreams of making it in the music business. Join us for a special…