Summaries and highlights of conferences.
Lisa Parks, ‘Illicit Capture of Mobile Phone Signals’ Opening Panel One in GEM Lab’s Media/Politics Seminar on Capture Friday 14th April Presenting on a new area of research, Lisa Parks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) opened the day with an outline…
Concordia PhD Student Viviane Saglier presented on Friday 7th April for the Film Studies Film Colloquium Series on her research that tackles Issues of negotiation, collaboration and co-optation within Palestinian filmmaking. Due to the Isreali occupation of the West Bank…
The conference’s last day revolved around themes of global circuits and markets of women’s and LGBT cinema, with the conference’s closing keynote by Skadi Loist, from the University of Rostock. Sunday’s first panel, moderated by Yuriko Furuhata, discussed “Modes and…
Many things have changed in the four years that Grad/Aperture has covered the annual Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student Association’s MA symposium, including venues, formats, and the time of year in which it is held. Despite these changes, the CGFSSA…
– words by Jordan Adler Near the end of the two-day Humorous Disruptions colloquium, held at Concordia University Oct. 16 and 17, one of the presenters asked if trying to analyze what makes something funny is a fool’s errand. The…
On Friday, May 15th, Dr Laikwan Pang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Dr Thomas Lamarre (McGill University) delivered a pair of engaging and complex keynote lectures to kick off “Porting Media: Asia”, a three day conference/workshop investigating the…
For a fourth consecutive year, the Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student Association showcased a variety of student research topics at various stages of development during our annual MA Symposium. The DHC/ART Foundation in the Old Port graciously provided an excellent…
Dan Leberg recently participated in the NECS 12th Annual Graduate Student Workshop on “From Sensation to Synesthesia: The aesthetic experience and synestesia in film and new media.”, hosted by the Sapienza University of Rome. Over the two days of the workshop,…
It was at University College Cork, Ireland, that Alphaville: the Journal of Film and Media Studies, held its 2nd international conference from September 4-6. Under the theme of “Deviation,” this conference featured talks by scholars from several international universities, including…
Concordia’s faculty and graduate student communities were well represented at NECS’ “Creative Energies / Creative Industries” conference in Milan last week. At least 8 current and former members of the MHSOC presented on topics as wide in range as the…
This event had been a long time coming, and after months of hard work, the event “Strategies and Tactics: Networks and Spaces of Solidarity and Activism” took place successfully yesterday, April 9, 2014. This event was organized by the Cinema…
This week, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Annual Conference, many students and faculty members from Concordia University will be presenting papers and participating in various events in and around the conference. To help you in finding out…