As a complementary screening to the Thomas Elsaesser talk the following day, ARTHEMIS presents a special screening of Harun Farocki’s Parallel I-IV Wednesday, February 17th @ 5pm in room LB 362 ______________________________________________________________________________ “Cinema’s onscreen worlds have always borne an indexical bond to the real, thanks to film’s ability to register traces of physical reality and preserve them as enduring images. What happens when computer-ge

ARTHEMIS is proud to present a talk with James Elkins and Thomas Elsaesser Note: this talk is preceded by a complementary screening of Harun Farocki’s Parallel I-IV on wednesday Thursday, February 18th @ 4pm in DB Clarke _______________________________________________________________________ Thomas Elsaesser (Columbia University) Operational Images between Industrial Use and Art Space Installation: Harun Farocki’s Parallel I-IV “One of the most fascinating developments in vi

ARTHEMIS is pleased to present a talk by Antonio Somaini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3) titled “Walter Benjamin’s Media Theory: The Medium and the Apparat” Friday, February 12th @ 4pm in room LB 362 ______________________________________________________________________ “What is a “medium”? And how can the history of the term – the way in which it has been used and theorized – help us answer this question? This paper will tackle both these issues by focusing on Walter

ARTHEMIS is pleased to present another series of fascinating talks and a screening this month. These events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the ARTHEMIS website. “Walter Benjamin’s Media Theory: The Medium and the Apparat”  A Lecture by Antonio Somaini (Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3) February 12th @ 4pm in room LB 362 “What is a medium? And how can the history of the term – the way in which it has been used and theorized – help us answer this

As part of their speaker series, Arthemis presents Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) “Continuity Within Gaps: Seriality in Contemporary Film and Television” Friday, October 30th at 4pm in room EV 1.605 “Our contemporary media landscape might be called the era of heightened seriality. In this talk, Professor Jason Mittell explores how serial storytelling has pervaded both film and television narrative, considering what formal elements define contemporary seriality, and how se

Friday, January 16th 4pm, room EV 1.605 As the first speaker of their Winter series of lectures, ARTHEMIS has invited Concordia’s own Dr. Catherine Russel to give a talk on one of her major areas of study: the works of Walter Benjamin. Details: _________________________________________________________________________________ “Although Walter Benjamin is frequently cited in film studies scholarship, there is little consensus on what he really offers the discipline. Working wi

words by Bridget Deer As a former video store clerk (I am sure several others in the audience were, as well), the lecture hosted by ARTHEMIS on Friday, November 7th was a nostalgic one. Dr. Daniel Herbert presented a lecture titled “On Film School and the Strip Mall: Video, Video Stores, and the Thresholds of Cinematic Knowledge.” The lecture dealt with issues of taste and the relationship between the Ivory Tower (the university) and the checkout counter (the video store). Ha

ARTHEMIS is pleased to present “On Film School and the Strip Mall: Video, Video Stores, and the Thresholds of Cinematic Knowledge”, a talk by media scholar Daniel Herbert (University of Michigan) on Friday, November 7th at 4pm in room EV 1.615. Details Below: _______________________________________________________________ “Historically, video stores in both big cities and small towns often served as de facto cinémathèques and informal “film schools.” Now that Netflix and oth

ARTHEMIS is pleased to present a special lecture by Will Brooker (kingston University London) titled “Batman: 75 years as a Transmedia Text” When? October 2nd @ 5:15pm Where? EV 6.720 Will Brooker is THE leading academic expert on Batman, and this is surely another must-see lecture from ARTHEMIS! Check out the event poster! click to enlarge #ARTHEMIS #batman #Lecture #Transmedia #willbrooker #presentation

Get ready for a momentous gathering of scholars form Concordia University, Université de Lausanne and Gœthe Universität Frankfurt. Indeed, from April 29 to May 1, scholars from these four universities will congregate for the “First Joint Study Days.” During this event 18 scholars will present papers under a common theme:  “To Represent: Theories, Epistemologies.” You can find the complete list of participants and presentations in the programme attached below. For more informa

For the very last event in the 2013-2014 ARTHEMIS Lecture Series, Raymond Bellour will be presenting a talk entitled “On Cinema and Other Moving Images”, as well as a workshop called “Cinema’s Body : Hypnoses, Emotions, Animal Nature.” These events will take place Friday April 4 and Saturday April 5 respectively. Bellour’s presentation for ARTHEMIS will take place at 16h00 in MB 2,270. As for the workshop, places are limited and those interested in attending should contact Er

John MacKay — professor of Slavic and East European languages and literatures and film studies, and chair of the film studies program at Yale University — gave a very engaging talk yesterday for the ARTHEMIS lecture series. His presentation “Dziga Vertov and the Paradoxes of a Revolutionary Materialist Film Practice” gave the audience a good look at some of the material part of his forthcoming book on the soviet filmmaker. The goal of this presentation was not only to reconst

This Friday March 28 will be the second to last talk in the 2013-2014 Lecture Series for ARTHEMIS. For this occasion, John MacKay will be presenting a talk on “Dziga Vertov and the Paradoxes of a Revolutionary Materialist Film Practice.” This events will take place March 28, 4pm in MB 2,270. As always, everyone is welcome, and encouraged, to attend this presentation. More information can be found on ARTHEMIS and after the break. _______________________________________________

Veronica Pravadelli, from Università degli Studi Roma Tre, presented yesterday within the 2013-14 ARTHEMIS lecture series. Her talk was entitled “Classical Hollywood Cinema and Film Studies: Historicizing Theory, Theorizing History.” Pravadelli presented a convincing talk to a small, yet engaged, audience of professors and students alike. In this paper, Pravadelli’s aim was to show how, and why, it is important to historicize theory. She argued that most theories on older Hol

This Friday, ARTHEMIS presents the next talk in its 2013-14 lecture series. Veronica Pravadelli  (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) will offer a talk entitled “Classical Hollywood Cinema and Film Studies: Historicizing Theory, Theorizing History.” The presentation will be held this Friday March 14, 4pm in MB 2,270. For more information please visit ARTHEMIS or refer to the description of the event included bellow. ______________________________________________ Classical Hollyw

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The talk will be at 2:30 pm (not 4:00) Same place. #ARTHEMIS #Cubancinema #IreneRozsa

ARTHEMIS is pleased to present a lecture by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University) “Habitual New Media” April 12th 4:00PM, in EV-1.615 #ARTHEMIS #Newmedia #WendyChun

Can you believe it’s already been four months since Grad/Aperture launched? Four months of building and shaping this site for graduate students at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and for those outside the program to get insight into our projects. There is still much more to come, but we’d like to take a moment to look back at some highlights from this semester: Several of our MAs successfully submitted their theses, a few MAs and PhDs had journal publications come out re

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