2024 Film and Media Studies Association of Canada/Association canadienne d’études cinématographiques et médiatiques
Virtual Graduate Colloquium/ Colloque Virtuel
MASS/LE(S) MASS(ES)
12-13 april 2024
Zoom Registration Link
DAY/JOUR 1: Friday, April 12/ Vendredi le 12 april
4:00pm - 5:30pm / 16h00 - 17h30
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Malini Guha (Carleton University) - ‘What Does a Site Want?’: Rethinking Public Projection as Traction
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DAY/JOUR 2: Saturday, April 13/ Samedi le 13 april
9:00am - 10:30am / 9h00 - 10h30
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Panel 1A: aMASSing: Social Shifts, Collectives, and Activism
Moderator: Ben Kiem
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MAŁGORZATA MĄCZKO: Remembering Mass Protests Through Cinema: Contemporary Depictions of Anti-Racist Social Movements
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LAMIA DJEMOUI: The injunctive norm of shame and rape culture: the representation of contemporary female sexuality in The Handmaid’s Tale
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ALAA ABDELRAZEK: But I Forgive: Unraveling Queer Activism in Post-2011 Egypt through the Lens of Sarah Hegazy
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HANNAH FLEISCH: Making En-masse: Collectivity and Resilience in Contemporary African Film Collectives
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Panel 1B: MASSTernities: Technology and Virtual Spaces
Moderator: Nikole McGregor
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ANNA DOUGLAS: A Case Study of Cyberfeminist Art: Reproductive Health and Mass Surveillance
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TIMOTHY NICODEMO: Becoming Animal: VR, Sense Perception, Empathy, and Umwelt
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SOPHIA COMMANDUCCI: True Crime in the Virtual Age
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WILLIAM JENNINGS: You Have a New Memory: On Hauntology, Mnemonic Implants, and the Problem of Memory in the Digital Age
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10:40am - 12:10pm/ 10h40 - 12h10
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Panel 2: Cinematic MASSquerades: Representation and Rituals
Moderator: Lamia Djemoui
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JANELLE ROWSELL: Balikbayan Boxes and Beyond: Fostering Connection Through Food in Hello, Love, Goodbye (2019)
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DISHANI SAMARASINGHE: Diversité des Corps Féminins dans le cinéma Américain Grand Public des Années 2020 : Une Révolution Intersectionnelle ?
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NIKOLE MCGREGOR: Hyphenated Rituality: Screen Ritual Representation as Diasporic Identity Markers
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12:10pm - 1:10pm/ 12h10 - 13h10
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LUNCH BREAK/ HEURE DU DÉJEUNER
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1:10pm - 2:40pm / 13h10 - 14h40
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Panel 3: MASSterpieces: Performance and Pop Culture
Moderator: Tamar Hanstke
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BEN KIEM: Major League Baseball’s Film Studies Turn: Image Training, Cheating, Identity, and Ideal Athletic Embodiment
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GABRIEL JULIANO: Hip-hop/Rap’s Epistemic Value And Civilizing Efforts: An Analysis of Racionais MC’s: From the Streets of São Paulo (2022)
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VERONICA ROUBY: DANCE CIRCLE: Girlhood, Performance, and Mass Hysteria
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JAKA LOMBAR: Cascading Repetition: Reading TikTok as Mass Mirror or Individual Mimesis
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2:50pm - 4:20pm/ 14h50 - 16h20
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Panel 4: MASStering Identities: Excesses and Expressions
Moderator: Jaka Lombar
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CLAIRE CAO: The Singular Woman: Redemptive Aesthetics against the Invention of Womanhood
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BRAD JACKSON: Metaphors of Mass: Depicting Character Emotions in Cinema
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TAMAR HANSTKE: The Excesses of Child-Animal Mobilities: A Case for a Cinematic Aesthetic of Creaturely Moving in Ponyo, Turning Red, and Nimona
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AISHA KHAN: Madness, Violence, or Misrepresentation? Marginalized Muslim Voice in Bhardwaj’s Haider, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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