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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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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.

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Global Ballroom Photogallery

We wholeheartedly thank everyone for participating in our sold-out event Global Ballroom. From the Baltimore Museum of Art to the George Peabody Library, between a performance, a screening, a workshop, and a unique VR experience, Baltimore welcomed our beloved guest performers...

Martin Prinz: Reading, Panel Discussion, and Open Classroom Visit

In The Last Days (Die letzen Tage), shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2025, Martin Prinz reenacts the events of April 1945 in a valley of the Austrian Eastern Alps, where innocent people were arbitrarily tried and executed by Nazi...