Film & Media Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Berkeley
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THURSDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2016
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142
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Berkeley Film & Media Seminar — Amy Villarejo, Cornell University
“& Mediation: Television’s Partial Visions” (5:00–7:00)
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FRIDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2016
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142 (unless otherwise noted)
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Petite Breakfast (8:30–9:15)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
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Welcome (9:15–9:30)
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Reality & (9:30–10:45)
"Remediation, Introjection, and Disciplinary Nomenclature" Zeke Saber, University of Southern California
"Through the Eyes of the Last Medium: The Witness and the New Virtual Reality" Jake Bohrod, University of Southern California
"Critical Immersion: Google Cardboard, NYT VR, and the Sound of Virtual Reality" Harry Burson, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent — Abigail De Kosnik, University of California, Berkeley
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Sex and Gender & (11:00–12:00)
"Make your own Neverland: Interactive Documentary and Lesbian Porn" Jasper Lauderdale, New York University
"Selfie Seriality" Nicole Erin Morse, University of Chicago
Respondent — Damon Young, University of California, Berkeley
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[LUNCH BREAK]
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Text & (1:00–2:30)
"Title Sequences as Medium Markers" Emily Saidel, University of Michigan
“Transmedia Adaptation, or the Kinesthetics of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" Lida Zeitlin Wu, University of California, Berkeley
"Wagnerian Opera Refigured as a Nietzschean Film" Tekla Babyak, Independent Scholar
“Blog Books and New Media Authorship" Staci Stutsman, Syracuse University
Respondent — Dan O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley
Coffee Break (2:30–3:00)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
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Museums & (3:00–4:15)
"Museums(') & Media" Megan Hoetger, University of California, Berkeley
"Sites of Screening: Film and Media Between the Academy and the Museum" Swagato Chakravorty, Yale University
"The 'Revenant' Flâneur in the Museum: Space, Multi-Screen Installation, and Multileveled Narrative" Xinyi Zhao, Columbia University
Respondent — Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley
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Keynote — Jenny Odell, Digital Media Artist
"New Media for Old Purposes: Art and Technology as a Perceptual Prosthesis" (4:30–5:30)
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Opening Reception (5:30–7:30)
Dwinelle Hall, Ishi Court
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SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2016
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142 (unless otherwise noted)
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Petite Breakfast (8:30–9:30)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
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Old & New (9:30–11:00)
“Microscopic Images & Media: Imaging Protocol and Objectivity on Screen” Mikki Kressbach, University of Chicago
“'There is a strong smell of the midway' or: Can you mediate a scent? And other questions raised by smell and the cinema" Kaitlin C. Forcier, University of California, Berkeley
"Instant Messenger: The Pony Express, Media, & the Infrastructures of American Modernity" Christina Corfield, University of California, Santa Cruz
"From Sitcoms to Snapchat" Shaikha Almubaraki, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent — Mark Sandberg, University of California, Berkeley
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Keynote — Kristopher Fallon, University of California, Davis (11:15–12:15)
"Metadata '& Media'"
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Cities and Borders & (1:30–3:00)
"Subversive Migrant and Refugee Media Technologies as Unofficial Itinerary Devices" Michael Anthony Turcios, University of Southern California
"Heroica Matamoros: Film, Affect and Bicycling on the US-Mexico Border" Daryl Meador, Independent Scholar
"Notes on Rubble: Mediating Mexico City’s Rogue Materialiaty" Stathis Gerostathopoulos, University of California, Berkeley
"Circulating Ephemerals: Rethinking Infrastructures and Urban Mediations" Bhargavi Narayanan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Respondent — Natalia Brizuela, University of California, Berkeley
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Coffee Break (3:00–3:30)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
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The State & (3:30–4:45)
"Groundwork: Telegraphy, Property, and Law-Making in 19th-Century Hawai’i" Tyler Morgenstern, University of California, Santa Barbara
"A Part at the Seams: Multiplicity and the Desultory Logic of Chinese Cultural Revolution Media" Eldon Pei, Stanford University
"Matters of Public Record: FOIA as Mediating Process" Daniel Grinberg, University of California, Santa Barbara
Respondent — Anne Nesbet, University of California, Berkeley
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