Please join Mary Ann's current and former colleagues and students in recognizing her impact on the discipline of film and media studies.
November 13, 2026
Location: Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
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Symposium Schedule
10:00 – 10:15AM: Opening Remarks (Kristen Whissel)
10:15- 11:45 AM: Technology/Epistemology
“Large Language Models and the Archive”
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University
“The Crazy Wall”
Nico Baumbach, Columbia University
“Unknowable/Unassimilable: The Femme Fatale and Postwar 3D Cinema's Technics of Doubling”
Kristen Whissel, University of California, Berkeley
“Archiving Deep Time: Climate Science’s Time Capsules”
Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: LUNCH
1:00 – 2:30 PM: Mediating Time
“Policing, Racialization, and Cinematic Time”
Althea Wasow, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Politics Deferred”
Pooja Rangan, Amherst College
“Avant-Garde Ambivalence”
Joshua Guilford, Amherst College
"Anticolonial Feminism and Cinematic Time (Travel)"
Rosalind Galt, King’s College London
2: 30 – 3:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK
3:00 – 4:30 PM: Desire and the Politics of Form
“Emblematic Laughter or: What Comes After the End”
Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota
“Particulate Agitation and Dusty Faces: Hollywood’s Cosmetic Disruptions of Scale”
Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick
“The Secret Mirror: Feminism, Voyeurism, and A.A.A. Offresi (1981)”
Erika Balsom, King’s College London
“The Desire to Desire Convenience: The Luminescent Windows of 7-Eleven in Japan”
Marc Steinberg, Concordia University
4:30 – 6:00 PM: RECEPTION