A Symposium in Honor of Mary Ann Doane

Symposium Schedule

10:00 – 10:15 AM: Opening Remarks (Kristen Whissel)

10:15- 11:45 AM: Technology/Epistemology

“Large Language Models and the Archive”

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University

“The Crazy Wall”

Nico Baumbach, Columbia University

“Unknowable/Unassimilable: The Femme Fatale and Postwar 3D Cinema's Technics of Doubling”

Kristen Whissel, University of California, Berkeley

“Archiving Deep Time: Climate Science’s Time Capsules”

Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: LUNCH

1:00 – 2:30 PM: Mediating Time

“Policing, Racialization, and Cinematic Time”

Althea Wasow, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Politics Deferred”

Pooja Rangan, Amherst College

“Avant-Garde Ambivalence”

Joshua Guilford, Amherst College

"Anticolonial Feminism and Cinematic Time (Travel)"

Rosalind Galt, King’s College London

2: 30 – 3:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK

3:00 – 4:30 PM: Desire and the Politics of Form

“Emblematic Laughter or: What Comes After the End”

Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota

“Particulate Agitation and Dusty Faces: Hollywood’s Cosmetic Disruptions of Scale”

Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick

“The Secret Mirror: Feminism, Voyeurism, and A.A.A. Offresi (1981)”

Erika Balsom, King’s College London

“The Desire to Desire Convenience: The Luminescent Windows of 7-Eleven in Japan”

Marc Steinberg, Concordia University

4:30 – 6:00 PM: RECEPTION