w/ Dr. Meredith Bak, Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott, and Pat Bonner Respondant: Dr. Haidee Wasson As film moves to television and television to our pockets, the material conditions of everyday media consumption appear once again to have changed. But not only are past and present media practices more varied, unpredictable, and historically-rooted, they also challenge the (still dominant) visual-centricism of spectatorship studies. Indeed, our sensory experiences (of sound, touch, s

Public Talk w/ Ying Qian (Columbia University) ​ //Friday, February 20, 2026 //2:00 PM //GEM Lab, 630.15 //1250 rue Guy This project takes ethnographic documentary filmmaking in Yunnan in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a point of departure to think about filmmaking as a chronopolitical technology employed by state and local actors to contest over conflicting regimes and experiences of time during China’s socialist transition. I focus my analysis on two films, The Wa ( Wa

//February 27th //2:00-5:00 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy The inaugural Work-in-Progress PhD Symposium brings together graduate students in film and media to share ongoing doctoral research. Across two panels, presenters explore how moving-image practices are reshaped by circulation, technological change, and archival reconfiguration – from streaming platforms and multiview interfaces, to orphan films, design pedagogy, and low-tech media histories. The moderated pane