TEMPLATE: Cinema Studies Student Conference

TEMPLATE: Cinema Studies Student Conference
Friday, February 28 - March 1
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required at least 24 hours before the start of the event. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.

Film Screening: ACCESSION (2018)
Friday, February 28, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor

Screening followed by Q&A with filmmakers, Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian.

"Shooting for more than five years in 13 locations around the U.S., Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian trace a collection of letters to the homes where each was sent or received in this uniquely process-based documentary. The letters, written to accompany seed packets sent between friends and families and dated as far back as 1806, are read aloud by individual narrators, unfolding as personal-poetic reflections on life and labor in rural America. Via a variety of 16mm film stocks, Accession maps a visual and aural correspondence between anonymous people and places with an exploratory flair." - Art of the Real, 2019

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required at least 24 hours before the start of the event. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.

FRIDAY       FEBRUARY 28th

WELCOME LUNCH

1:00 pm - Opening Remarks by Professor Dana Polan

1:30 - 3:30 pm   RESISTANCE/REINVENTION moderated by Prof. Dana Polan

●    Brennan Ryan - University of Southern California - “Everything is in Irma Vep": On Assayas’s Self-Reflexive Remakes of Feuillade’s Les Vampires”
●    Shiya Zhang - University of California San Diego - “Global Neo-Noir in the Chinese Context, or, Why Chinese Neo-Noir Matters”
●    Basile Guichard - New York University - “Black Faggots with an Agenda: Radical Political Activism in Stephen Winter’s Chocolate Babies”
●    Lifei Cheng - Columbia University - “Fragmenting the Template: The Essay Film and Radical Reimagination in French and Romanian Cinema”

COFFEE BREAK           3:30 – 4pm

4:00 - 5:30 pm INSTITUTIONS moderated by Prof. Anna McCarthy

●    Xun Zheng - Columbia University - “Between People and Numbers: Public Broadcasting, Quantitative Social Surveys, and Statistical Knowledge in Postwar Japan”
●    Mengru Wang - Sichuan University - “Ambition and Dilemma of Globalization: The Expansion Path of Korean Film Festivals”
●    Amy Anderson - University of Toronto - “Leaving God’s Country: Colonial Imaginaries, the Archive and the Birth of Canadian Cinema”

DINNER BREAK                5:30 - 7:00 pm

SCREENING          7:00 – 8:30 pm
“Accession” (2018) - Tamer Hassan & Yervant Armand Tufenkian
 

SATURDAY    MARCH 1ST  

BREAKFAST      10:00 –11:00 am

11:00 am – 1pm WAYS OF SEEING moderated by Prof. Toby Lee

●    Yuli Li - University of Southern California - “Contemplating Forced Modernity in A New Old Play: Magic Lanterns and Visual Power”
●    Juntao Yang - Columbia University - “Fault Lines and Echoing Strata: Attunement and Unsecurement through East Asia’s Earthquake-Media”
●    Connor Burns - Brooklyn College - “Mimicry and Scopophilia in the Docu-fictional Form: On Kaouther Ben Hania’s Le Challat de Tunis”
●    Sayantan Dutta - University of Chicago - “Reimagining the Modernity Thesis: Post-Partition Calcutta in Indian Cinema”

LUNCH       1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

2:00 – 4:00 pm  GENDERED BODIES    moderated by Prof. TBD

●    AJ Castle - Stonybrook University - “The Scaffolds of Cronenberg’s Fleshy Objects,”
●    Kaycee Hailey - New York University, “From Pioneers to Provocateurs: Templates of Black Masculinity in American Cinema”
●    Katie Kern - New York University - “Kinesthetic Sympathy and Corporeal Liberation: Reimagining Female Bodies in Motion”
●    Connor Telford - University of Washington - “Reproducing the Autonomous Image: Drag Culture in a Modern Capitalist Landscape”

COFFEE BREAK         4:00 – 4:30 pm

4:30 - 6:00 pm    HORROR     moderated by Prof. Jacob Floyd

●    Amitha Halthore - University of Pittsburgh - “Manifestations of the Medical Gaze in Horror”
●    Annaya Baynes - New York University- “Kyle Gallner: The Crowning of a Scream King,”
●    Stevie Paraskevopoulos - New York University - “What Happened to Laurie Strode?: Gendered Identification and the Disappearance of the Final Girl”

>>>>>>> All meals will be served on the 6th floor of Cinema Studies

Organizers:
Cameron Olsen, Cole Bradley, Margarida Duque de Castela, Sofie Cato Maas

To all staff of NYU’s Martin Scorsese Cinema Studies department Professors, all participants, the PhD students, and volunteers who helped make this conference happen, our biggest thank you