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Read more at: Global Media: Sound, Image, Materiality - 10-11 June 2022, Queens’ College, Cambridge
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Global Media: Sound, Image, Materiality - 10-11 June 2022, Queens’ College, Cambridge

Image: Rosine Mbakam (left) and Pooja Rangan (right) Two of the most important developments in media studies in recent decades have been turns toward materiality, on the one hand, and global histories, on the other. In many ways, these developments may seem at odds: materiality and media archaeology have often privileged...


Read more at: Two new Assistant Professors join the Centre for Film and Screen

Two new Assistant Professors join the Centre for Film and Screen

The Centre for Film and Screen is delighted to announce that we have recently appointed two new Assistant Professors in Film and Screen Studies. Kareem Estefan and Xin Peng will be joining the Centre in September 2022 and will also both make History of Art their departmental home. These appointments result from and respond...


Read more at: debbie tucker green, visiting filmmaker at Centre for Film and Screen

debbie tucker green, visiting filmmaker at Centre for Film and Screen

debbie tucker green, one of the UK’s most original contemporary filmmakers and a distinguished playwright and theatremaker, will be visiting filmmaker at Centre for Film and Screen in Easter Term 2022. debbie is the director of Second Coming (2014) and ear for eye (2021), among other works. She is the author of over a...


Read more at: Peggy Ahwesh: Filmmaker in Residence
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Peggy Ahwesh: Filmmaker in Residence

Peggy Ahwesh Filmmaker in Residence Easter Term 2021 To register please sign up via the relevant google form (there is a separate form for each event as shown below). Confirmation and zoom sign-in information will be sent to registered participants at the start of the week of 17 May. Any queries may be directed to...


Read more at: Symposium on Pere Portabella: Keynes Lecture Theatre, King's College Cambridge

Symposium on Pere Portabella: Keynes Lecture Theatre, King's College Cambridge

A full-day conference on the Cinema of Pere Portabella will take place on 13th February 2020, beginning at 10am. Location: Keynes Lecture Theatre, King's College, Cambridge Director Pere Portabella will be present, and will participate in the conference. Other speakers include Steven Marsh, Rosalind Galt, Teresa Grandas...


Read more at: Cambridge Film and Screen Studies Research Seminars, 2019-20

Cambridge Film and Screen Studies Research Seminars, 2019-20

Film and Screen Studies Research Seminar Series Centre for Film and Screen University of Cambridge Michaelmas Term 2019 17 October (Thursday) 5.15pm Chadwick Room, Selwyn College Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame) ‘A permanent stain? Race and Sex, Gender and Genre in Luigi Zampa's Campane a Martello ’ This event co...


Read more at: Ironies of Web 2.0
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Ironies of Web 2.0

Ironies of Web 2.0 Professor Damon Young Film & Screen Studies MPhil Conference Monday May 6th at 6pm in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College Keynote Lecture Contemporary media cultures evince a crisis of authorial perspective, experienced as a collapse of the distinction between sincerity and satire...


Read more at: Vertigo Effects: Film, Flight, and Simulation Sickness
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Vertigo Effects: Film, Flight, and Simulation Sickness

Vertigo Effects: Film, Flight, and Simulation Sickness Dr Patrick Ellis Georgia Institute of Technology 4pm, Wednesday 8th May 2019 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College One of the first media pathologies associated with cinema was “camera sickness,” a vestibular malady that shared symptoms with other newly...


Read more at: Todd Solondz: Filmmaker in Residence 2019
Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz: Filmmaker in Residence 2019

We are delighted to announce that the award-winning independent American filmmaker Todd Solondz will be at the Centre for Film and Screen in early May of the Easter Term, 2019. Solondz is one of the leading figures in what has come to be known as ‘independent cinema’—cinema produced outside the Hollywood studio system—a...


Read more at: Linda Ruth Williams, Visiting Professor of Film Studies

Linda Ruth Williams, Visiting Professor of Film Studies

It is with pleasure that we announce that Linda Ruth Williams will be at the Centre for Film and Screen during the Lent term (2019). She is with us thanks to a visiting fellowship at Corpus Christi College. She will be giving a talk in the Film and Screen Studies Research Seminar series on 6 March. Linda Ruth Williams is...


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Professor Dominic Keown wins prestigious Catalan prize

23 November 2023

The prestigious Ramon Llull Foundation recognises contributions to the promotion of Catalan language and culture throughout Europe and beyond.