Thursday March 3, 2022
9:45am EST
Matthew Croombs (University of Calgary), Opening Remarks
10:00am-12:00pm EST
Radicalism in the Age of Covid and Climate Disaster
Alexandra Juhasz (Brooklyn College) and Pato Hebert (New York University), “Capillaries of Care: No Silver Linings”
Lakshmi Padmanabhan (Northwestern University), “Anthropocene anxiety, or, what is a world in cinema?”
Sarah Hamblin (University of Massachusetts Boston), “All the Modern Cons: On Revolution Without a Future”
12:00pm-1:00pm EST
Break
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
The World in Circuits, Systems, and Arms
Masha Salazkina (Concordia University), “Global Socialist Cinema of Armed Struggle”
Philip Rosen (Brown University), “Between Geopolitics and the Spectacle? On Cinema and the World System”
Mariano Mestman (University of Buenos Aires), “Internationalist Solidarity and Third Worldist film culture (Havana, 1968)”
Friday March 4, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm EST
The People, the State, and the Earth in Marxist Internationalist Cinema
John MacKay (Yale University), “Internationalism in Dziga Vertov's Kino-Pravda 22 (‘Lenin Lives in the Heart of the Peasant’)”
Ling Zhang (Purchase College), “Norman Bethune in China: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune (1965)”
Luca Caminati (Concordia University), “Mao in Milan, or ‘get off the horse in order to gather flowers’”
12:00pm-1:00pm EST
Break
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
Anticolonial Traces and Temporalities
Rizvana Bradley (University of California, Berkeley), “Too Thick Love: On Cinematic Unbearability”
Rosalind Galt (King’s College London), “Anticolonial inheritances: Mati Diop and the spirits of African cinema”
Malini Guha (Carleton University), “The Ciné-Kinship: luta ca caba inda as Decolonial Praxis”