2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

Room: Salon Banquet/Francois, LobbyThursday, March 26, 2015 11:00AM-12:45PM (Session G)G1: Geopolitics of Global Film Circulation: Third Cinema and the International Festival Circuit, 1960s-1970s.Room: 1Chair: Luca Caminati (Concordia University)Masha Salazkina (Concordia University), "The Geography of Third World Cinema at International Film Festivalsin the 1960s"Mariano Ernesto Mestman (University of Buenos Aires), "The Cinematographic Third Worldism among LatinAmerican Film Festivals"Jonathan Buchsbaum (City University of New York, Queens College), "Third Cinema, US Festivals, andAlternative Distributors"Rossen Djagalov (Koc University), "How Third Cinema Became Third-World: The View from Tashkent"G2: Speculative Bodies: Trans and Queer of Color Digital Media PraxisRoom: 2Chair: Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)Micha Cardenas (University of Southern California), "Shifting, Flickering Futures: Imagining a Digital Trans ofColor Praxis"Margaret Rhee (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Digital as Drag"Alexis Lothian (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), "Queer Love and Media Justice: Critical Fandom asSpeculative Feminist Praxis"Respondent: Zach Blas (University at Buffalo)G3: Color and AnimationRoom: 3Chair: Kirsten Moana Thompson (Victoria University)Kirsten Moana Thompson (Victoria University), "Material Histories: Ink and Paint and the Disney ColorLaboratory"Rebekah Rutkoff (Princeton University), "Lillian Schwartz: Light Pen/Paintbrush"Caroline Leader (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Good Hair: Animating Disney and Pixar’s DigitalPrincesses"Daniel Bashara (Northwestern University), "The Chromatic Playhouse: Mid-Century Cartoons and the Liberationof the Color Field"G4: Media Waste: Technological Systems and the EnvironmentRoom: 4Chair: Kyle Stine (McGill University)Jon Crylen (University of Iowa), "Jacques Cousteau, Homo aquaticus, and the History of Breathing in IrrespirableAtmospheres"Joseph Bookman (Pennsylania State University, Erie), "Toward an Archaeology of Septic Media"George Vollrath (University of Wisconsin-Superior), "Media Memento Mori: Waste and Memory in theAnthropocene"