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…
Jacopo Quadri, the Italian director and editor who worked with Bertolucci, Zhang Yuan, and Gianfranco Rosi, will be in Montreal from October 22-25 to present a series of talks and screenings at UQAM and Cinéma Moderne. Along with a Master…
The Work-In-Progress (WIP) workshop series at the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab in the Film department at Concordia now welcomes applications for presentations of in-progress and multi-media research projects in the Winter semester. The deadline is January 5, 2018. Please…
The first Works-in-Progress (WIP) Workshop Series is coming up! “Documenting Capital: Intersections of Free Trade Zone Architecture and Digital Filmmaking” Patrick Brodie and Patrick Brian Smith When: November 9th, 5pm Where: GEM Lab, FB 630.15 The first workshop will feature a…
When: October 27 & 28 Where: GEM Lab (FB630) Luca Caminati (Concordia University) and Shelleen Greene (UCLA) will co-host a workshop titled “Geopolitics of Italian Cinema: Expanding Postcolonial Approaches to Film Studies”. This event is structured as a “Working Papers…
Chicago-based filmmaker and anthropologist J.P. Sniadecki visited the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema on Friday, March 3rd, to deliver the inaugural Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture in addition to hosting a Master Class in filmmaking. Acquiring his Anthropology PhD at…
Looking for something to do this mid-term break (aside from catching up with your school work, of course)? Here are a few things you can check out this coming week, February 19-25, 2017. *** Basic Instinct CineClub/Film Society screening (Feb 19,…
We are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the NEH-funded workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image: Producing Videographic Criticism, to be held June 18 – July 1, 2017 in Middlebury, Vermont. This workshop is only open to…
The Gem Lab is hosting two events with Daniel Hoffman (Anthropology, University of Washington) on October 14, 2016. http://www.globalemergentmedia.com/ 1) Graduate Student Workshop: Media Practice and Field Research October 14, at 1-2:30pm (FB 630.15) Students are invited to register for an informal…
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 4:00 – 6:00 pm CJ Building, Room 2.130 Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke W. Montreal (Qc) As a chance to welcome everyone back for the new academic year, the Feminist Media Studio will be holding an Open…
How does one define “amateur”? Operating against, outside, or within institutions, crossing borders, gender divides, technological and social gaps; the figure of the amateur may be estranged from popular filmmaking circles, yet their active role in the circulation of film…
“The Amateur and the Institution Workshop” takes place this Saturday, March 19th, in room FB 630 starting at 10am. Here is the complete schedule: 10AM: Opening remarks by Dr. Lee Grieveson (UC London) 10.30-11.30AM: Session 1 Andrea Mariani (Udine): Crisis and Sintropy…