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The Center for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS) facilitates the historical, cultural, and linguistic analysis of how ideas are communicated in the mass media through events, courses, lectures, workshops, screenings, and artist residencies. CAMS focuses on transnational cinema and visual media arts, offering a critical gaze to the newest areas of research in postcolonialist, feminist and queer film studies.

CAMS offers a graduate certificate for PhD students in all humanities disciplines, and hosts residencies and lectures with the most prominent film theorists and directors in the field.

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Earn a Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate Program in Film and Media educates doctoral candidates in the theory, aesthetics, and history of film, video, and other audiovisual media.

Become A Fellow

Fellows, who can come from any discipline in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, focus on a media-related aspect of their research and studies during the fellowship.

Patricia White Residency with CAMS

We are delighted to announce Patricia White’s Residency for CAMS, featuring two events between April 10th & 11th, 2025. Cinefeminism in the 1970’s: Transnational Films About Abortion (lecture & screening)in conversation with Professor Mary Fissell (History) April 10th5:30 PMGilman 208...

Talk and Screening with visiting speaker Mckenzie Wark on March 5

McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar, known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. She is the author of “Reverse Cowgirl,” “Raving” and “Love and Money, Sex and Death.” She is...

Soyoung Kim: In Residence with CAMS

Professor Soyoung Kim (Korea National University of Arts, Seoul) will be hosted at two events on the Homewood campus next week. The event is co-sponsored by The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI). Mediating Eurasian Pasts February 10, 5-7 PM, Gilman...