Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
Lauren Cramer, University of Toronto
The Berkeley Film and Media Seminar presents: Lauren Cramer, University of Toronto “Unmoved: Anxiety and Black Cinema” Cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies ...
Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
Jeff Scheible, King’s College, London
Berkeley Film and Media Seminar Series presents: Jeff Scheible, King’s College, London “The Ideology of Alternation: Ping Pong, Narration, and Contemporary TV” ...
Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall
Eugenie Brinkema, MIT
The Berkeley Film and Media Seminar presents: Eugenie Brinkema, MIT “Drabness and Ethics (on the Values of Formalism)” Cosponsored by the Department of English and the Department of Comparative Literature ...
From ‘Books of Light’ to the ‘Total Image’: Publishing Industry, Slide Projection and the Rise of ‘Immersive Exhibitions’ in 1960s-70s France

Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
OIivier Lugon, University of Lausanne
The talk will explore the history of the recent “immersive exhibitions” based on projected digital reproductions of works by famous modern painters. It will focus on one of the leading operators in the field, the “Atelier des Lumières”, founded in Paris in 2018, but actually dating back to the “Cathédrale d’images”, launched in 1977 by Gens...
142 Dwinelle
Avery Dame-Griff
Defining Who We Are Not: Transgender Usenet and the Rise of Cisgender In contemporary discussions of trans issues, it’s almost impossible to not encounter the term “cisgender.” However, until the mid-2000s, “cisgender” and its variants were almost exclusively used on only one platform: the decentralized discussion system Usenet. In this talk, Dame-Griff analyzes Usenet’s role in popularizing...