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GEM Members featured on New Book: "Representation in Steven Universe"

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Feb 21, 20201 min read

GEM Members featured on New Book: "Representation in Steven Universe"

GEM Lab members Jake Pitre and Jacqueline Ristola have recently been published in the book Representation in Steven Universe, released by...

Patrick Brodie wins Media Industries Essay Award

GEM LAB

Feb 21, 20201 min read

Patrick Brodie wins Media Industries Essay Award

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) holds the largest annual conference in our field. The Media Industries Special Interest...

Book Launch for Underglobalization and Good Boys!

GEM LAB

Feb 17, 20202 min read

Book Launch for Underglobalization and Good Boys!

**Note the event is at the second DQ location at 176 Bernard. Come celebrate the books of Alexei Perry Cox, Megan Fernandes, Joshua...

GEM LAB

Feb 10, 20202 min read

Methods in Progress Workshop

The Methods in Progress schedule is out! It will be held on Feb 14th, 2020 at the GEM Lab. Schedule: 11.00AM-12.30PM, Transnationalisms...

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Jan 23, 20201 min read

GEM Lab Introduction / Video Essay Workshop

Friday January 31st, 2020 2pm - 4pm Workshop @ GEM Lab, FB 630.15 The GEM Lab would like to invite interested Film Studies graduate...

CANCELLED: Workshop with Professor Pooja Rangan: Dis/Audibility

GEM LAB

Jan 22, 20203 min read

CANCELLED: Workshop with Professor Pooja Rangan: Dis/Audibility

March 13, 4-6 pm in the GEM Lab Description: This workshop will explore how the problem of sensory access, and specifically the...

Porn in Context: Social Media, Platforms, Communities

GEM LAB

Jan 17, 20201 min read

Porn in Context: Social Media, Platforms, Communities

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 6-8 pm The GEM Lab invites you to a symposium titled, “Porn in Context: Social Media, Platforms,...

Platform Worlds: A Lecture by Dr. Marc Steinberg

GEM LAB

Jan 7, 20201 min read

Platform Worlds: A Lecture by Dr. Marc Steinberg

January 17th - 4:00 PM FB 630-15 - 1250 Guy St. Film and media studies have been immensely transformed by the recent development of...

Filming the Siege of Kabul: Images from the Civil War 1992-1996 – Cinema in the Midst of Struggle

GEM LAB

Jan 7, 20201 min read

Filming the Siege of Kabul: Images from the Civil War 1992-1996 – Cinema in the Midst of Struggle

Date: January 17, 2020 - 7:00-9:00PM The first-ever screening of the film “House of History (Khan-e-Tarikh, 1996)” followed by a Q&A with...

GEM Director's "Underglobalization" forthcoming with Duke UP

GEM LAB

Dec 13, 20191 min read

GEM Director's "Underglobalization" forthcoming with Duke UP

Dr. Joshua Neves’ new book Underglobalization is to be released in March 2020 by Duke University Press. In Underglobalization Joshua...

Former GEM Coordinator Weixian Pan joins the Faculty of NYU Shanghai

GEM LAB

Dec 13, 20191 min read

Former GEM Coordinator Weixian Pan joins the Faculty of NYU Shanghai

The GEM Lab would like to congratulate Weixian Pan on her recent position at NYU Shanghai in the faculty of Interactive Media Arts. Prior...

Book Launch: I Confess by Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo

GEM LAB

Nov 18, 20191 min read

Book Launch: I Confess by Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo

Friday Nov 29th, 2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm @ GEM Lab. Book Launch: I confess by Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo. (Read More)

Davani Varillas Talk: Theses on the Politics of the Audiovisual

GEM LAB

Nov 15, 20191 min read

Davani Varillas Talk: Theses on the Politics of the Audiovisual

November 22, 2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm @ GEM Lab. Theses on the Politics of the Audio Visual by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos. (Read More)

GEM LAB

Nov 4, 20193 min read

Spell Reel (2017) Screening + Workshop

Artist Talk featuring Zhu Shengze - dir. Present.Perfect (2019)

GEM LAB

Nov 4, 20191 min read

Artist Talk featuring Zhu Shengze - dir. Present.Perfect (2019)

Zhu will discuss her filmmaking practice and recent works, with a particular focus on 2019's Present.Perfect. - winner of the Tiger Awar

Bearing Witness/Holding Space: Screening + Discussion

GEM LAB

Oct 30, 20194 min read

Bearing Witness/Holding Space: Screening + Discussion

Bearing Witness, Holding Space: National Populism, Post Truth and the Documentary Form - 5:30pm - GEM Lab Global Emergent Media Lab and...

Cinema in the Midst of Struggle 2019-2020

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Oct 30, 20191 min read

Cinema in the Midst of Struggle 2019-2020

Based out of Concordia’s Global Emergent Media Lab, Cinema in the Midst of Struggle is a public screening series that aims to raise awarenes

Works-in-Progress: Labour of Oil, Petrocultural Imaginaries, and Colonial Modernity in Iran, Novembe

GEM LAB

Oct 30, 20193 min read

Works-in-Progress: Labour of Oil, Petrocultural Imaginaries, and Colonial Modernity in Iran, Novembe

Sanaz Sohrabi is an artist and interdisciplinary researcher currently pursuing her practice-based doctoral studies at the Center for Interdi

Lowrance: The Politics of Form, Authorship, and Distribution by Muhammad Nour Elkhairy (WIP)

GEM LAB

Oct 14, 20191 min read

Lowrance: The Politics of Form, Authorship, and Distribution by Muhammad Nour Elkhairy (WIP)

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM in the GEM Lab (FB 630.15) Lowrance: The Politics of Form, Authorship, and Distribution is a...

GEM LAB

Sep 25, 20192 min read

Animating Television Reading Group

This group will examine the objects, subcultures, and ecologies emerging from the nexus of animation and television. Television, in...