CALL FOR PANELS (Deadline September 30, 2019) As part of the 16th RAI Film Festival taking place from the 27-30 March 2019, the Royal Anthropological Film Festival has announced an accompanying conference, Expanding the Frame: Ethnographic Film and its Others. ……
The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) invites proposals for the third annual McGill Queer Research Colloquium (QRC). The QRC is a forum for the scholarly community at McGill and beyond to share research pertaining to LGBTQI2 studies.…
CALL FOR PAPERS From Spectacle to Entertainment: Cinema, Media and Modes of Engagement from Modernity to the Present XXIV International Film Studies Conference Roma Tre University – Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts Rome, November 22-23, 2018 Confirmed Keynote…
Concordia is proud to be hosting the third edition of the Global Women’s Network* Conference from September 2-4 in room VA 114. Featuring noteworthy international and local scholarship on feminist and queer studies, “Women, Film Culture, and Globalization” will address…
From May 15th-17th Concordia will host “Porting Media: Asia”, a conference investigating the circulation and infrastructure of portable media. This conference will feature a series of panels, presentations and workshops, including two exceptional keynote lectures: Laikwan Pang (The Chinese University…
No stranger to the works of Walter Benjamin, Catherine Russell continued her extensive research into the philosopher’s writings in her presentation “Walter Benjamin, Archiveology, and Critical Film Practice”. Through a close analysis of the structure and content of Morgan Fisher’s…
On Saturday afternoon, Mel Hoppenheim PhD candidate, Meredith Slifkin chaired the panel titled “Global Melodrama: Theories, Histories, Methods.” She introduced the panel by explaining that the aim of the three papers were to explore the notion of melodrama as a…
At the 11 AM panel on the very last day of SCMS, attendees settled in to the Fairmont’s Bersimis room, luggage in hand, ready to dash off to the airport after catching a final panel or two. At the “Ethics…
Before beginning his presentation this morning, Concordia’s Martin Lefebvre drolly thanked all in attendance for making it to the 9 AM panel on the 22nd day of SCMS. Indeed, it has been somewhat of a marathon of scholarly rigour by…
On Friday afternoon, the Silent Cinema Cultures SIG sponsored a panel titled “Digital Film Historiography: Archives, Techniques, Epistemology,” chaired by Mel Hoppenheim PhD candidate Philipp Dominik Keidl and co-chaired by Christian Gosvig Olesen (University of Amsterdam). Though the panel was…
Concordia Professor Rosanna Maule presented yesterday on “Women’s Cinema on the Web: A New Platform for Feminist Discourse” in the panel “Theorizing Post-cinema: The Cinematic In and Out of the Theatre” where she proposed a step out of a solely theoretical approach…
One of the final panels of day one of SCMS, “The Care for Opacity in East Asian Cinema,” was comprised of a group of four Montreal-based scholars: Erik Bordeleau (Concordia University), Dr. Sivestra Mariniello (Université de Montreal), Suzanne Beth (Université…