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Graduate Student Conferences
The conference series serves several functions, including increasing awareness of our graduate students’
scholarly work among the Brown community at large and permitting our students to have an impact on
discussions occurring within the university in a context that is more far-reaching than that provided by a
graduate seminar. The series also assists students in the process of professionalization by creating a forum
in which to receive essential criticism and feedback of students’ scholarship as it progresses through the
stages of revision and development. Receptions following the conferences provide a further opportunity
for engagement between students, peers, and faculty.
MCM is also hosting a graduate student conference, “New Perspectives on Modern Culture and Media,”
on Saturday, February 23rd. The schedule is as follows:
• Andrew Lison, “Countercultural Dreams, Technological Nightmares: ‘The President’s Analyst,’1968,
and the Future”
• Aniruddha Maitra, “Cosmopolitanism and Gender in the Commons”
• Hunter Hargraves, “The Addictive Gaze in Reality Television”
• Jeremy Powell, “Elemental Destructions: Irigaray and Van Sant”
• Seth Watter, “Flipping a Coin, Smoking a Cigarette: Of Cinema and Gesture”
• Matt Noble-Olson, “The Late Work of Cinematic Excess”
• Kenny Berger, “Anxiety, Power, and the Pacified Eye: Re-Envisioning Anti-Spectacular Film”
• Mauro Resmini, “Death Every Night: Genre and Cinematic Ontology in ‘The Prestige’”
The next graduate student conference will take place at the end of the semester.
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