Film & Visual Studies 2020 Graduate Student Conference: (Im)possibility

Organized by the graduate students in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, (Im)possibility is a virtual conference tracing the limits and occlusions of representation, visibility, and theory. The conference begins at 6:00pm EST on October 8, 2020 with a virtual screening of Ja’Tovia Gary’s film The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (2019). The screening will be immediately followed at 7:00pm EST by a keynote conversation between Gary and Frank B. Wilderson III. Registration for the keynote event is available here.

Throughout the day on October 9 and 10, conference proceedings will bring together scholars and practitioners working across film and media studies, visual culture, and Black studies; see the schedule for details and Zoom registration links. 

The Giverny Document will be freely available for streaming throughout the duration of the conference here.

(Im)possibility is sponsored by the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University with support from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

 

FILM & VISUAL STUDIES 2020 GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(Im)possibility

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  October 10, 2020
2:00pm EST – 3:45pm EST Opacity, Appearance, Surveillance   
Ibiayi Briggs (Michigan); Triton Mobley (USC); Christian Rossipal (NYU)  Respondent: Carolyn Bailey 
4:00pm – 5:45pm EST Film as Philosophy  Venus Green (UMass Amherst); Joshua Wiebe (University of Toronto); Daniel Fraser (Trinity College Dublin); Gala Hernandez (Paris 8 University)  Respondents: Nace Zavrl and Sophie Gilmore  

Read more about (Im)possibility and see the full schedule here.