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Berkeley Film & Media Seminar

Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 5:00 pm

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 ...

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Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 5:00 pm

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” ...

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Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 5:00 pm

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 ...

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Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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...

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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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...

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