Job Posting: Wilfrid Laurier, Department of English and Film Studies: TT Professional Teaching Position (PTP) in Film Production

By On February 10, 2024 · In Job Postings, News

Job Posting: Wilfrid Laurier, Department of English and Film Studies: TT Professional Teaching Position (PTP) in Film Production

The Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo campus, invites applications for a tenure-track Professional Teaching Position (PTP) at the rank of Assistant Professor in Film Production beginning July 01, 2024 (depending on […]

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FMSAC Graduate Colloquium – MASS virtual colloquium, april 12-13, 2024

By On December 20, 2023 · In Grad Colloquium, News, Student News

FMSAC MASS virtual colloquium, april 12-13, 2024

“Art respects the masses …” (Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory)

The theme of this year’s online synchronous* FMSAC Graduate Colloquium is “MASS.” The OED offers many definitions of mass, including: “a dense aggregation of objects having the appearance of a single, continuous body”; “to form or gather into a […]

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Job Posting: Université de Montréal : tenure track position in Korean visual cultures

By On November 21, 2023 · In Job Postings, News

ENGLISH BELOW

Le Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques de l’Université de Montréal sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de professeur ou professeure à temps plein au rang d’adjoint en cultures visuelles coréennes avec une spécialité en études télévisuelles et/ou cinématographiques.

La personne retenue sera appelée à enseigner aux trois cycles, à encadrer des […]

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FMSAC Virtual Grad Colloquium Committee – Volunteers Needed!

By On November 13, 2023 · In Annual Conference, Grad Colloquium, Student News

FMSAC is seeking volunteers to help organize the 2024 FMSAC Virtual Graduate Colloquium. To encourage decentralization, experimental research forms, and curb the increasing costs and environmental impact of travelling across Canada, we’ve opted for a virtual colloquium this year. A virtual colloquium provides an opportunity to experiment and deviate from the standard conference-style presentation format […]

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CFP: Two Days of Rural Canada Conference, Brock University – New deadline February 2, 2024.

By On November 13, 2023 · In Calls for Papers, News

The dates for this conference have been moved to March 21-22, 2024, in order to double-up with this year’s Crossing Borders, a multi-disciplinary student conference.

As a result, the CFP for the Two Days of Canada conference is being circulated once again, with a new deadline for proposals: February 2, 2024.

Call for papers […]

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CFP: Reorienting the Sublime

By On November 13, 2023 · In Calls for Papers, News

Call for Papers: Reorienting the Sublime

McGill University
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
Graduate Student Symposium

Deadline for Submissions: December 29, 2023

“The sublime is something added that expands us, overstrains us, and causes us to be both here, as dejects, and there, as others and sparkling. A divergence, an impossible […]

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CFP: Cinephile 18.1 – (Un)recovering Lost Futures

By On November 13, 2023 · In Calls for Papers, News

CFP: Cinephile 18.1 – (Un)recovering Lost Futures

The late cultural theorist Mark Fisher asks, “how long can a culture persist without the new?” For Fisher, the postmodern future under capitalist realism, “harbours only reiteration and re-permutation” (6-7). In capitalism’s inability to look beyond itself, media culture has become excessively nostalgic and “incapable of generating any […]

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CFP: 2024 UofT CSI Annual Graduate Student Conference – “Fragmentation”

By On October 30, 2023 · In Calls for Papers, News

Call for Papers: FRAGMENTATION
Version française ci-bas.

2024 Annual Graduate Student Conference
University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute
Friday, February 2nd to Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

Keynote address by Dr. Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota

At 24, 48, 60, or 120 fragments per second, photographic images unite to create the movies. […]

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CFP: Context & Meaning XXIII: Present | Past

By On October 30, 2023 · In Calls for Papers, News

The Graduate Visual Culture Association at Queen’s University

Context & Meaning XXIII:
Present | Past
CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce the twenty-third annual Context and Meaning Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Queen’s University Department of Art History and Art Conservation from Friday, February 9th to Saturday, February 10th, 2024.

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CFP: “Revisiting a Golden Era: Canadian Cinema of the 1980s and 90s”

By On October 18, 2023 · In Calls for Papers, News

CFP: “Revisiting a Golden Era: Canadian Cinema of the 1980s and 90s”

Call for essay proposals for an edited volume about Canadian films, filmmakers, and film culture (for submission to McGill-Queens University Press)
Edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman

This volume proposes a reconsideration of the aesthetic, cultural, and industrial development of motion […]

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