Event Time September 21 @ GEM Lab, FB 630-15 10:30 AM-3:00 PM Event Description This event will bring together four scholars from different disciplines in a conversation about two iconic and iconoclastic modernist filmmakers: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergei Paradjanov. The aim of this workshop is to place these two artists in relation to each other and discuss their respective engagement with ethnography and orientalism, their relationship to art, both modernist and pre-modern

How does one define “amateur”? Operating against, outside, or within institutions, crossing borders, gender divides, technological and social gaps; the figure of the amateur may be estranged from popular filmmaking circles, yet their active role in the circulation of film culture is undeniable. On March 19th, a group of scholars workshopped many roles of the amateur through a variety of national, ideological, technological, Institutional, and gendered lenses in an effort to b

“The Amateur and the Institution Workshop” takes place this Saturday, March 19th, in room FB 630 starting at 10am. Here is the complete schedule: 10AM: Opening remarks by Dr. Lee Grieveson (UC London) 10.30-11.30AM: Session 1 Andrea Mariani (Udine): Crisis and Sintropy of an Amateur Practice. Experimenting Film Technology under Fascism: the Cineguf (1934-1943) Giuseppe Fidotta (Udine): The Amateur Propagandist Enrique Fibla (Concordia): The bourgeois amateur and the emergence

-Words by Andre Dubois Last Tuesday, the chills of mid-January were kept at bay as a mid-sized conference room on the 6th floor of the Faubourg quickly reached capacity for the first speaker in a series of talks as part of the Digital Ethnography Workshop—sponsored by the Global Emergent Media Lab and the Concordia Documentary Center. Following JP Sniadecki’s master class last year, Toby Lee (NYU) presented a critical overview of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab and its work

On October 24th, Dr. Catherine Russel and Dr. Masha Salazkina will lead a grant-writing workshop at 2pm in room FB-411. This workshop is open to all Film Studies graduate students. Be sure to visit the Fellowship & Awards section of Grad/Aperture under the Resources tab for a full list of available internal and external awards, as well as a selection of useful guides to help you through the grant-writing and application process! #2014 #CFP #workshop

Today is the second out of a three-day workshop entitled  “Global Cultural Flows”, organized by the CISSC founded Transnational Cultural Flow Working Group. After the screening of Fiamma Montezemolo’s Traces (2006) yesterday evening at the Feminist Media Studio on Loyola Campus, participants met today to hear presentations by three of the eight workshop participants. The talks for the day were by Bhaskar Sarkar, Bliss Cua Lim and Aboubakar Sanogo. Each participant presented o

Here’s a small reminder that as part of the Global Cultural Flow workshop taking place at Concordia this week, Fiamma Montezemolo’s video piece Traces (2012) will be screened tomorrow Thursday, Apr 10, between 5-7pm. While all the places for the workshop are already taken, this screening is open to the public, and all are welcome to come. This event will be held at the Loyola Campus, in CJ Bldg 2.130, on 7141 Sherbrooke W. __________________________________________________ Fi

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

For some of us, the job market is fast approaching. Because facing a hiring committee can be a daunting task, you might be interested to know that  GradProSkills will be presenting a panel discussion called “Meeting the Hiring Committee Demands” on Monday March 17. Held in MB 2.270 starting at 2:30pm, this workshop will be led by Dr. Mark Sussman, Dr. Darren Wershler, as well as our very own Dr. Masha Salazkina. For more information, please find the description of the event c

Today, the Cinema Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series held its second Workshop, where PhD students presented their papers in preparation for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies’ Annual Conference, which will take place in Seattle next week (March 19-23.) In the presence of peers from the graduate program, as well as faculty members, PhD candidates Zach Melzer and Kaia Scott presented two very interesting papers. Zach’s presented his paper “Outdoor Digital Advertisin

Interested in applying for FQRSC and SSHRC grants? Masha Salazkina and Catherine Russell will be conducting a grant-writing workshop on Friday Sept 27 from 2 to 4 pm in room FB 411. Deadlines for FQRSC grants are October 9 for MA applications and October 10 for PhD applications. http://www.fqrsc.gouv.qc.ca/fr/bourses/candidat.php The SSHRC deadlines seem to be much later this year, but you can check out some of the eligibility rules here: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Student

Do you have questions on PhD applications? Wondering what the process is like? For MA students who are thinking of applying to PhD programs, Dr. Luca Caminati will be hosting a workshop on Friday, October 12, 2-4 pm in room FB-323. Coffee and refreshments will be provided by the CGFSSA. #LucaCaminati #phdapplications #workshop