Please join us on Friday, February 17th at 10AM in Cobb 311 for our fourth Winter Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This time, we welcome Gary Kafer, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. Gary will be presenting an article in progress titled “Believing is Being: Selfies, Referentiality, and the Politics of Belief in Amalia Ulman’s Instagram.” […]

Please join us on Friday, February 10th at 10AM in Cobb 311 for the third Winter Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This time, we welcome Dr. Robert Bird, Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the College. Robert Bird will be presenting a chapter […]

Please join us on Friday, January 27th at 10AM in LOGAN 201 [Please note alternative location] for our second Winter Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This week we are delighted to welcome Tom Gunning, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Art History & Travis Preston, Dean of Theater at The California Institute of the Arts. Our […]

Please join us on Friday, January 20th at 10AM in Cobb 311 for the our first Winter Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This time, we welcome Shannon Tarbell, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. Shannon will be presenting a chapter of her dissertation titled “Visual Conversation in Late Silent / Early Sound […]

Please join us on  Friday, December 2nd at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 for the next meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This time, we welcome Dr. Constantine V. Nakassis, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and the College at the University of Chicago. Professor Nakassis will be presenting a paper entitled “The Hero’s Mass and the Ontological Politics of the Image in Tamil Cinema.” […]