Schedule

12:30 PM:  Opening Remarks

Prof. Anna McCarthy, Department Chair, NYU Cinema Studies

13:00 PM – 14:30 PM: Reaction to Queerness in Cinema

Moderator: Lauren I Treihaft, PhD Student, Department of Cinema Studies, NYU

• “To see beyond the veil: Heterosexual passing in Roman Epics and the Production Code,” Éloïse Thompson-Tremblay, MA NYU
• “1, 2, 3, Start The Fucking Movie: Documenting Sins O’ The Flesh at The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” Shayna Maci Warner, MA NYU
• “Rainbow Kinship: Deconstructing Queer Family Relationships in Contemporary China through Documentary Lens,” You Wu, MA NYU

14:45 PM – 16:15 PM: Redefining Relationships

Moderator: Josslyn Luckett, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, NYU

• “For a Theory of Cinematic Improvisation: Hearing Free Jazz in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1PM (1968),” Matthias Mushinski, PhD Concordia University
• “Radical Cryptophasia: Beyond Biopolitics,” Ekin Erkan, MA Columbia University
• “Indexing the Infinite: Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics in Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep,” Keisha Knight, PhD Harvard University

16:30 PM – 17:45 PM: Global Capitalism, Local Reactions

Moderator: Feng-mei Heberer, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema Studies; Interim Director, Asian Film & Media Initiative, NYU

• “The Future is in the Family: Articulations of Utopia from Border Perspectives,” Chae Park, MA USC
• “Exit through the Concrete: Capitalist Realism and Subjective Death in the Consequences of Love,” Hannah Soebbing, MA USC
• “My Fellow Princess,” Jessie Yao, MPS the New School

18:00 PM – 19:00 PM:  Keynote Address

Wayne Hodge, Artist

“Race and Genre in Skin Like Distant Stars”

Wine and cheese after keynote!

Saturday, February 16th

12:30 PM: Registration Open

13:00 PM – 14:00 PM: Political Implications of Reactive Image and Performance

Moderator: Marina Hassapopoulou, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema Studies; Co-Associate Director, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, NYU

• “Reactivated Image: A Site of Dissensus, Potentiality and Virtuality,” Shuyi Xiong, MA Columbia University
• “Stating the Obvious: Radio Raheem and the Gentle Giant and the Crisis of Care,” Gabrielle Marovavy Rajerison, PhD student University of Pittsburgh

14:15 PM – 15:15 PM: Alternative Sites and Practices

Moderator: Paddy Johnson, Adjunct Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, NYU

• “No Movies”: Reappropriation and Reclamation in the Activist Imagemaking of Asco Art Collective,” Jennifer Yu Jin Jeong, MA USC 
• “Raising the Dead: Archives and Black Women’s Labor in Camille Billops’ Suzanne, Suzanne (1979),” Ayanna Serenity Dozier, PhD McGill University

15:45 PM – 17:15 PM: Political Imaging in Motion

Moderator: Neta Alexander, Adjunct Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, NYU

• “Un-mapping the diaspora: Street View dwelling and social change in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY,” Toma Peiu, PhD University of Colorado Boulder 
• “The Entangled Archive of Displacement: On Detention, Deportation, and the Logistics of Cinema,” Christian Rossipal, PhD NYU
• “Gestures on the Street: Gilets Jaunes, the Filmic Record, and One Minute of Dance a Day,” Megan Hoetger, PhD UC Berkeley

17:30 PM – 19:00 PM: Tools of Reappropriation and Resistance

Moderator: Laura Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, NYU

• “Contaminating a Tropical Malady,” Darja Filippova, PhD Princeton University
• “The Land We Stand On: How Reapportion and Distortions Are Tools of Resistance in Soda_Jerk’s TERROR NULLIUS,” Devon Narine-Singh, BFA SUNY Purchase 
• “The gesture of death in Mueda, Memória e Massacre,” Christina Aislinn Chalmers, PhD NYU