3/8: Avery LaFlamme, “Fragments of Odessa Warren Grey” (with Race and Racial Ideologies Working Group)

Dear all, Please join us for the last Mass Culture Workshop of the quarter, this Friday, March 8! This session, hosted in partnership with the Reproductions of Race and Racial Ideologies Working Group, will meet on Zoom. Details below. There is no pre-circulated paper. Your 2023–24 Mass Cult coordinators, Joel and Hugo   Fragments of […]

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Mass Culture Workshop: Aurore Spiers, “Alice Guy Blaché In Her Own Words” (2/23)

Dear all, Please join us for the Mass Culture Workshop next Friday, February 23! Details below. There is no pre-circulated paper. Your 2023–24 Mass Cult coordinators, Joel and Hugo   Alice Guy Blaché In Her Own Words Aurore Spiers, Humanities Teaching Fellow, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago Respondent: Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor, […]

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Mass Culture Reading Group: Listening to Mass Culture–January 12th, 2024

Please join us for our first Mass Culture Workshop of the winter quarter this Friday, January 12, 2024! Details below. January 12, 2023, 11 AM–12:30 PM, Cobb 310 Readings: Jean Luc Nancy “Listening” Nancy, Jean-Luc. Listening. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. Annotated edition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. Presented by Joel Sutherland, CMS Ph.D. Student, and Eleanor Ford

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Mass Culture Workshop: Zachariah Anderson, “Looking at Police Body-Worn Camera Footage as Documentary Evidence” (12/1)

Dear all, Please join us for the last Mass Culture Workshop of the quarter, this Friday! Details below. There is no pre-circulated paper. Your 2023–24 Mass Cult coordinators, Joel and Hugo   Looking at Police Body-Worn Camera Footage as Documentary Evidence Zachariah Anderson, PhD Candidate, Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Respondent: Gary […]

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November 3: Sophie Lynch, “Through Glass, Darkly: The Photographic Resolution of Celestial Nebulae”

Dear all, Please join us for the third Mass Culture Workshop of the year, this Friday! Details below. Please note the room change for this session. The pre-circulated paper is provided through the Mass Culture listserv. Your 2023–24 Mass Cult coordinators, Joel and Hugo   Through Glass, Darkly: The Photographic Resolution of Celestial Nebulae Sophie […]

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Reading Group: Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading: or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is About You”

Reading Group: Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading: or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is About You” Introduction by Joel Sutherland, CMS, PHD Student 11-12:30, Friday October 27th, 2023 Cobb 310 Link to reading: Here Password circulated through the Mass Culture Listserv

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