Events
The Cinema Studies Department regularly hosts events that include lectures, screenings, and discussions, including our Wednesday Night Series, which is open to the public.
Join our Cinema Studies announcements listserv to receive emails about upcoming film-related events within and outside the department!
To view past events, check out our Event History page.
Request accommodations here.
The Cinema Studies Department regularly hosts events that include lectures, screenings, and discussions, including our Wednesday Night Series, which is open to the public.
Join our Cinema Studies announcements listserv to receive emails about upcoming film-related events within and outside the department!
To view past events, check out our Event History page.
Request disability accommodations here.
Friday, Feb. 6, 2026
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2026 Experimental Lecture: Iva Radivojević
"But I, I don't remember any of it"
Friday, Feb. 13, 2026
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Fluid Cinema: Water as Moving Image Media in Contemporary Art
A talk by Jessica Bardsley, this talk charts an artistic lineage in which water operates as a medium for the creation of moving images.
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026
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Formations of the Double: A Poetics of Hindi Cinema
Book event: Richard Allen in conversation with Tejaswini Ganti
Friday, Feb. 20, 2026
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Riding the Filmic Tidal Front: Chinese Independent Documentary and Japan
A Talk by Tamako Akiyama. This talk examines Chinese independent documentary through the metaphor of the tidal front—a dynamic zone where different cinematic, cultural, and institutional currents collide, intermingle, and resist stabilization.
Friday, Feb. 27, 2026
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Cinema Studies Student Conference
This graduate conference invites scholars, artists, archivists, and practitioners to think dialectically about abundance and scarcity as material reflections, fiscal realities, epistemic conditions, and aesthetic strategies across cinema and media.
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026
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Cinema Studies Student Conference
This graduate conference invites scholars, artists, archivists, and practitioners to think dialectically about abundance and scarcity as material reflections, fiscal realities, epistemic conditions, and aesthetic strategies across cinema and media.
Sunday, Mar. 1, 2026
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Cinema Studies Student Conference
This graduate conference invites scholars, artists, archivists, and practitioners to think dialectically about abundance and scarcity as material reflections, fiscal realities, epistemic conditions, and aesthetic strategies across cinema and media.
Friday, Mar. 13, 2026
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Interface Frictions
Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies.
Friday, Apr. 17, 2026
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Secret Sixteen Screening - Spring 2026
Join us in Room 674 for a 16mm feature from the Cinema Studies Archive.