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” ...
Zoom meeting
Melody Jue
Click Here to Register What would media and literary studies look like, underwater? In Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (2020), I show how the ocean can be a science fictional environment for defamiliarizing concepts, offering cold and briny contexts in which to rethink what it means to store and organize information. After outlining how scuba diving...
Online event
Watch the world premiere of Lázaro González’s film, Pándēmos (2021), this weekend for free here. The premiere a part of the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale University. Lázaro González is a current PhD student in the Film & Media program at UC Berkeley. Synopsis: A gay Cuban filmmaker moves to San Francisco during the Covid-19...
142 Dwinelle Hall
Kelly Sears
Filmmaker and Animator Kelly Sears in person to present an evening of award winning experimental animation films. Kelly Sears is an experimental animator who cuts up and collages imagery from American culture and politics to intervene with the history embedded in the frame. Working with appropriated images ranging from thrift store cast-offs to archival material, she uses...
142 Dwinelle Hall
Karen Beckman
Karen Beckman, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania November 20th, 5:00 pm 142 Dwinelle ...
Zoom meeting
Armond R. Towns
Click Here to Register for the Event Who is the human in media philosophy? Though media philosophers have argued since the twentieth century that media are fundamental to being human, this question has not been explicitly asked and answered in the field. Armond R. Towns demonstrates that humanity in media philosophy has implicitly referred to a social Darwinian understanding...
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23
Zamansele Nsele and Nicole Starosielski
Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The October program features Zamansele Nsele (History of Art) and Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media) in conversation with Roshanak Kheshti (TDPS). Zamansele Nsele is Assistant Professor of Modern and...
The Berkeley Film & Media Seminar Presents: WARREN SACK “A HISTORY OF THE DEMO AND A FUTURE FOR THE ESSAY”

Dwinelle 142 (Nestrick Room)
Speaker: Warren Sack
In a chapter on rhetoric in his recently published book, The Software Arts (MIT Press, 2019) he recounts a history of demonstration. Aristotle tells us that the strongest rhetoric is closely tied to logical demonstration. The history of the “demo” starts in ancient Greece, when definitive demonstration was a matter of deduction as practiced in geometry. In the 17th c....
The Berkeley Film & Media Seminar Presents: SKIN IN THE GAME: GREYMARKET GAMBLING AND VIRTUAL CURRENCIES IN COUNTER-STRIKE

Zoom webinar
Speakers: Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux
Click Here to Register Points, scores, tokens, chips, coins, cash, stocks, scrips, after the the US housing bubble and the global financial crisis in 2008 and with the emergence of the gig economy, crypto assets, and platform capital over the last decade, money has gotten weird. Credit card points and frequent flyer miles make a game of...