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Photogallery of CAMS events 2024-2025

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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...

Body Modification and Gender Anarchy in Media Theory and Practice

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Call for Papers for MAST Special Issue with deadline on May 31st. Guest Editors:Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University)Cla Calabresi (Johns Hopkins University) This special issue of MAST Journal explores practices of the body and embodiment in relation to media theory from both diachronical and synchronical perspectives. We welcome submissions concerning the body in media theories...

Patricia White Residency with CAMS

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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 The Americanization of Feminine Culture: Female Authorship, White Girlhood, and the U.S. Culture Industry from...

Talk and Screening with visiting speaker Mckenzie Wark on March 5

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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 Professor of Media and Culture at Eugene Lang College, The New School. After the talk...

Soyoung Kim: In Residence with CAMS

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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 479 The Weight of the (Un)/written February 11, 1:30-3:30 PM, Gilman 35 Soyoung Kim is...

December 5th and 6th – Kathryn Ramey’s Screening & Masterclass

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Kathryn Ramey's films challenge the viewer to re-think about modern colonization, its mechanism and responsibilities.

Upcoming Events and Residencies

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For the academic year 2024-2025, CAMS will host several scholars in the field of Media Theory and award-winners directors and producers working on the international stage.

October 25th – Contemporary Brazilian documentary with Henrique Landulfo

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The brazilian producer will speak on contemporary brazilian documentary practice and his recent films: "This Is Ballroom", "At This Moment, In The Nation's Sky", and the forthcoming "The Archives".

September 27th: Graham Sack presents on his recent projects

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Award-winning media artist, filmmaker and actor Graham Sack presents on his recent projects, VR film “Lincoln in the Bardo” and cutting edge neuro-theater experience “sol_AI_rs.”, hosted by the Center for Advanced Media Studies. The presentation will be held on Friday, 27th from 2pm to 4pm in Gilman 479. Graham Sack is the founder of Chronotope Films and the recipient of the...

A Cinema of Subtraction: Kiarostami and Modesty

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Join CAMS on Tuesday, September 17th from 4pm to 5:30pm in Mergenthaler Hall 426 for “Substraction: Kiarostami and Modesty”, a lecture with professor Joan Copjec. Reception will follow. For those wishing to watch the lecture on Zoom, please find the link below: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 Joan Copjec, professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, focuses her theoretical...