Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies

Cinema Studies Student Conference – holding the gaze

Poster for holding the gaze conference

Join us for a weekend of conversation with this year's Cinema Studies Student Conference - holding the gaze.

Keynote speaker: Racquel J. Gates (Columbia University)

Free and open to the public. RSVP required.

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Schedule

Friday, February 23rd, 2024

 

1:15pm: Opening Remarks (Dana Polan, Chair and Professor, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies)

 

1:30pm-3:30pm: popular (re)visions

Moderator: Michael B. Gillespie

  • “Glimpses of Girlhood: The Ascendance of the Female Gaze in a Digital Landscape,” Lauren DiBenedetto (Toronto Metropolitan University)

  • “Nope to Exploitative Spectatorship: Reconfiguring Gaze with Film History,” Chi-Tsung Chang (University of Pittsburgh)

  • “Queens of Contrast: Exploring the Oppositional Gaze and Fetishistic Representations in Courtney Kemp's Power Universe,” Telia Bennett (Seton Hall University)

  •  “‘The Privileged Gaze’ in Popular Cinema: Reconstituting the Gaze Not as an Identity but Structured by Cultural Privilege,” Paul D. Peters (Ohio University)

 

4:00pm-5:30pm: embattled sight lines

Moderator: Toby Lee

  • “Reimagining Burma: Queer documentary cinema in Myanmar’s ‘transition to democracy’, 2011-2021,” Charlotte Chadwick (Hong Kong University)

  • “Unblinking: Valentyn Vasyanovych's Slow Cinema of a Long War,” Ian Lehine (New York University)

  • “Te Espero en la Guerra: Historical Memory and the Colombian Civil War,” Rosa Martinez (John Jay College)

 

7:00pm: Keynote with Dr. Racquel J. Gates (Columbia University)

 

Saturday, February 24th, 2024

 

11:00am-1:00pm: queer vantages

Moderator: Feng-Mei Heberer

  • “Chronicling Queer History: The Documentary Work of Nikolai Ursin,” Robert Asher (New York University)

  • “The Dyke Erotic Gaze: From Mesmerism to Cruising Practices,” Carolina Sepúlveda (Harvard University)

  • “Queering Patriarchal Apocalypse: The Queer Temporality in Neon Genesis Evangelion,” Yilia Qu (Wellesley College)

  • “Digital Dissociation: The Queer Nature of the Online Self,” Red Broadwell (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

 

2:00pm-4:00pm: digital witnessing

Moderator: Dan Streible

  • “The Digital Gaze: Duplicity of Authenticity,” Hwi-Eun Ban (Columbia University)

  • TBD, Majorca Bateman-Coe (Columbia University)

  • “Piecemeal Totality and Deepfake Sovereignty,” Luise Mörke (Harvard University)

  • “Notes on the Forensic Gaze,” Stephen Woo (Brown University)

 

4:30pm-6:30pm: escaping singularity

Moderator: Robert Stam

  •  “Feedback, Fugitivity, and Overexposure in Monique Walton’s Dark Matters,” Francesca DiBona (Queen’s University)

  • “Safi Faye: One Among Many,” Ben Friedman (New York University)

  • “Dance and Film: Intersecting Realities and Transformations in the Camera's Gaze,” Mia Jin (Columbia University)

  • “What does it mean to be Korean-Russian-American? 16mm documentary, oral history and encounters around the gaze, in an NYC diaspora,” Toma Peiu (University of Colorado Boulder)

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