We are pleased to announce that Raymond Bellour will be joining us Tuesday, May 17, at 4:30 PM for a special meeting of Mass Culture Workshop in Cobb 425 (please note the non-standard day, time, and location). He hopes for a robust conversation around the locations and materialities of moving-image spectatorship.

Raymond Bellour, critic and theorist of literature and film, is the Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professor for Spring 2016. He is the Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Paris. He is the author of, among others, The Analysis of Film (1979) and Le Corps du cinéma (2009), and the co-founder of the French film journal Trafic.

Wine and cheese will be served.

Please read Prof. Bellour’s paper in advance, which can be downloaded here.

Please email Tyler for the password: taschroeder [at] uchicago.edu.

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Tyler Schroeder at taschroeder [at] uchicago [dot] edu.**

Please join us on Friday, May 13 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Shannon Foskett, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies; she will discuss “Imaging and Imagining with fMRI: Neuroscientific Viewing, Diaphanous Screens and the Promise of Representation,” a dissertation chapter in progress.

Refreshments will be provided.

Shannon’s paper is available for download here.

Please email Tyler for the password: taschroeder [at] uchicago.edu.

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Tyler Schroeder at taschroeder [at] uchicago [dot] edu.**

Please join us on Friday, April 22 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Ling Zhang, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilization; she will discuss “Traversing the Multi-Ethnic Space: Five Golden Flowers As a Socialist Road Movie,” an article in progress for an edited collection.

Refreshments will be provided.

Ling’s paper is available for download here.

Please email one of the coordinators for the password: taschroeder [at] uchicago.edu or noa [at] uchicago.edu.

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Tyler Schroeder at taschroeder [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Noa Merkin at noa [at] gmail [dot] com**

Please join us on Friday, April 15 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Dan Wang, Ph.D. candidate in Music; he will discuss “The Structure of Romantic Affect: Soundtracks and the Intimate Event,” a dissertation chapter in progress.

Refreshments will be provided.

Dan’s paper is available for download here.

Please email one of the coordinators for the password: taschroeder [at] uchicago.edu or noa [at] uchicago.edu.

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Tyler Schroeder at taschroeder [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Noa Merkin at noa [at] gmail [dot] com**

Professor Eugenie Brinkema (Literature, MIT)
“Violence and the Diagram (Or, The Human Centipede)”
Respondent: Matt Hubbell, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Presented in collaboration with the Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop
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Thursday, March 3rd
4:30–6:30 pm
Cobb 104 (**note the change of location, day, and time**)

The paper is available for download here.
Please email one of the CMS coordinators for the password: taschroeder [at] uchicago.edu or noa [at] uchicago.edu.
Please read in advance and come prepared for discussion.

*The paper and the film under discussion contain scenes of graphic violence.*

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! Refreshments will be provided.

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Tyler Schroeder at taschroeder [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Noa Merkin at noa [at] gmail [dot] com**