May 18, 2018 – Tien-Tien Jong

Please join us on Friday, May 18th at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the last meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop for the 2017-18 academic year. We are delighted to have Tien-Tien Jong, a PhD student in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She will be presenting a paper-in-progress titled “Practice, Torture, and the Perfect […]

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May 4, 2018 – Nadine Chan

Dear All, Please join us on Friday, May 4th at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the next meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This time, we welcome Nadine Chan, Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. She will be presenting a chapter […]

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April 13, 2018 – Tyler Schroeder

Please join us this Friday, April 13th at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for Mass Culture Workshop’s second Spring Quarter meeting. This time, we welcome Tyler Schroeder, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. Tyler will be presenting a work-in-progress toward a dissertation chapter, entitled “Public Hygiene Instruction: Producing and Circulating Films and Bodies in […]

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March 30th, 2018 – James Leo Cahill

Dear All, We invite you to join us on Friday, March 30th at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 as Mass Culture Workshop is proud to host James Leo Cahill, Associate Professor in Cinema Studies Institute and Department of French at the University of Toronto; he will discuss “On the Plurality of Worlds: Jacques Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle’s Silent World,” a […]

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Feb 16th, 2018 – Allyson Field

Dear All, After a short hiatus, the Mass Culture Workshop is back for our fourth meeting of the quarter, which will take place this Friday, Feb 16th at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311. This week we’re proud to host Allyson Field, Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies; she will discuss “African American Kiss Films, Minstrelsy, and Early […]

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