BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.3388.events_uoft_date.0@www.cinema.utoronto.ca CREATED:20251027T131757Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 06, 2026 2:00 pm to Saturda y, March 07, 2026 9:00 pm \n I\nis College \n 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto\ , ON M5S 1J5 \n\nSpeakers \nJodie Mack (Dartmouth College) \n\nDescription : \nUPDATE: We regret to announce that for medical reasons, Jodie Mack is no longer able to make it to Toronto in person. Please note that the 'Cap ture Session' on March 7, 2:15pm-4pm in UC179 has been CANCELLED. The eve nt will be replaced by an Animation Lecture and Workshop in IN222, from 2 :15pm-4pm, which Prof. Mack will host virtually.The Cinema Studies Gradua te Student Union (CSGSU) is excited to share the poster and full schedule of Formations, the 2026 A\nual Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference . The conference will take place from March 6th-7th at I\nis College, wit h our keynote speaker, the experimental filmmaker and animator Prof. Jodi e Mack of Dartmouth College.The conference events are free and open to all . But we would especially like to highlight that Prof. Mack's keynote addr ess on March 6th, 4pm at I\nis Town Hall, will include a program of expe rimental shorts presented with 3D diffraction glasses.On March 7th, at 2: 15pm, we will also be hosting a capture session with Prof. Mack at Univer sity College (UC179). (Please note: attendees of this session are recommen ded to wear dark-colored clothing.)We would like to acknowledge the gracio us support of various University of Toronto sponsors, including the Cinem a Studies Institute, the Jackman Humanities Institute, the Department of East Asian Studies, the Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese & L atin American Studies, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of A rt History, the Department of English, the Centre for the Study of the U nited States at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the As ian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the C entre for Comparative Literature, the Centre for Ethics, the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies, as well as the Department of Visual Stu dies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and the Department of En glish at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.Co-chairs: Jixin Jia; La wrence Neal GarciaOrganizing Team: Avneet Sharma, Hayden Bytheway, Janel le Rowsell, Mwanzi Johns, Owen Eccleshall, Parth Pant, Thomas QuistEve nt ProgramMarch 62:00 - 4:00 pmRegistration I\nis College Lobby4:00 - 6:30 pmKeynote Address with Special 3D Diffraction Screening ProgramQ&A Modera tors: Prof. James Cahill and Srijita BanerjeeFilms provided courtesy of th e National Film Board of Canada, Amy Kravitz, Canyon Cinema, and Six Pa ck Films I\nis Town Hall6:30 - 8:00 pmWelcome Reception I\nis College, Se cond Floor Lounge March 79:00 - 9:30 amCoffee & Welcome I\nis College, Se cond Floor Lounge9:30 - 11:00 amPanel 1a | IN222Queer FormalismModerated b y Sam Reimer Avneet Sharma, University of Toronto, Forms of Tennis, For ms of Sex Pate Duncan, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “We Need to Brea k the Nose of Every Beautiful Thing”: Luca Guadagnino’s Roughened Form Dit ta Demeter, University of Cambridge, Truth as a Shimmering Mirage: Bisex ual Formation(s) Against Ideological Binaries in Anatomy of a Fall (2023)P anel 1b | IN312Grids, RulesModerated by Joshua Cabrita William Wells, U niversity of Illinois, Chicago, Rules to Die By: Contemporary Horror and the Impossible Ruleset Leonardo Strano, University of Cambridge, Disfig uring the grid: how digital cinema exposes modernist paradoxes of form-mak ing to challenge late capitalism’s imaging strategies Jen Racoosin, Indep endent Scholar, Mapping Totality in the Digital Age: Searching (2018) and  Missing (2023)11:15 am - 1:00 pmPanel 2a | IN222Approaching CensorshipMod erated by Janelle Rowsell B. Dalia Hatalova, University of Toronto, Gold diggers from 1932 to 2025: A Transhistorical Approach to Censorship Resear ch Stephen Istvan Dragos, King’s College London & University of Northampt on, Approaching the Unapproachable: The Material Artefacts of the 1980s R omanian Commercial Film Poster Meidi Quan, City University of Hong Kong, The Resilient Formation of the “Minjian”: The Transformation and Paradox of Publicness in China’s Post-Independent Film Festivals (Virtual Presenta tion) Hannah Fleisch, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Trut h and Reconciliation Commission’s Special Report: National Address, Archi ves, and Media Historiography (Virtual Presentation)Panel 2b | IN312Aesth etic TheoriesModerated by Thomas Quist Josh Cabrita, University of Toront o, Deleuze and the Conditions of Successive Time in the Cinema Evyn Armst rong, University of Southern California, The Face of Muppet: On the Perf ormance of Puppets Winter Faddick, University of Toronto, The Mechanical Chimera: Animal Components in Walter Benjamin’s Writing and Motifs Nikole McGregor, University of Toronto, Virtual Sublimity: Aesthetic Formation s at the Threshold of Perceptual Contradictions1:00 - 2:00 pmLunch I\nis C ollege, Second Floor Lounge2:15 - 4:00 pmCapture Session with Jodie Mack University College, Room UC179Animation Lecture and Workshop, I\nis Coll ege, Room IN-2224:15 - 5:30 pmPanel 3a | IN222City and Nation Moderated b y Aaisha Salman Zichen Liang, University of British Columbia, Where the World Breaks: Anta’s (No)Presence and Anti-Formation in A Thousand Suns Yi fei Sun, University of Cambridge, Temporal Ruptures and Queer Formations : Re-reading the Zishu Tradition in Intimates (1997) as City Allegory (Vir tual Presentation) Melika Motevalli Poor, Université de Montréal, Archiv ing Silence: Dislocated Geographies, Lost Women, and the Invisible Begin nings of Iranian CinemaPanel 3b | IN312Computational ImagesModerated by Al exandra Neufeldt Jung-Ah Kim, Queen’s University, Tactile Algorithms: We aving the Moving Image Andy Lee, University of Toronto, Burning the Fore st to Kill the Fox: Six Days in Fallujah and the Politics of Military Simu lation Yves Chang, Independent Scholar, On My Screen: Computer Vision & User Intimacies in Ninajirachi’s “Infohazard”6:00 - 9:00 pmClosing Recepti on & After-Party Duke of York - 39 Prince Arthur Ave.  \n\nContact Informa tion: \n Cinema Studies Graduate Student Union (CSGSU) csgraduatestudentun ion@gmail.com \n\nSponsors \nCinema Studies Institute, Jackman Humanities Institute, Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Italian Span ish Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Department of Philosophy, Depar tment of Art History, Department of English UTSC \nMap \n2 Sussex Avenue\ , Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 \n\nCategories \n ConferencesDiscussion PanelsResea rch \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyGraduate StudentsUn dergraduate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T210000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T154446Z LOCATION:2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 SUMMARY:Formations: 2026 Annual Graduate Student Conference URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/formations-2026-annual-g raduate-student-conference END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR