BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090414 DTSTAMP:20260525T104821 CREATED:20150309T174126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T131535Z UID:21465-1239408000-1239667199@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT European Short Film Festival 2008 DESCRIPTION:MIT’s 4th European Short Film Festival offers a unique glimpse into the most recent short-film productions from Europe\, with a special focus on productions from European film schools and award-winning films from recent Festivals in Europe. \nThe MIT European Short Film Festival caters to a diverse audience drawn from many local universities and a rich mix of international communities from the larger Boston area. The festival is co-sponsored by a variety of MIT departments and European cultural institutions located in Boston. \nTopics for this year’s festival include: Migration\, Anxiety\, Media Culture\, Food (Culture)\, Toys and Games. \nAll films will be shown in Room 32-123 (Stata Center)\, all programs start at 7:00 pm. \nFree Admission — All films with English subtitles. \nThe Festival is co-sponsored by: \n\nThe Foreign Languages and Literatures Section (MIT)\nThe Comparative Media Studies Program (MIT)\nThe Goethe-Institute\, Boston\n\nThe Festival is presented in conjunction with Dr. Kurt Fendt’s course “20th/21st Century German Literature – Grenzgänge” (21F.416) \nFor further information please visit http://web.mit.edu/shortfilm/ or contact the Festival Team: URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-european-short-film-festival-2008/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T104821 CREATED:20150407T130519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201500Z UID:21311-1239901200-1239901200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Chris Claremont: "Opening Doors\, Building Worlds" DESCRIPTION:Chris Claremont is best known for his 17 year unbroken run on the X-Men comic series — a feat in world building that has supported many uses\, from comics to movies to video games and more. Now Chris is returning to that world\, with a new comics series titled X-Men Forever. This time\, the rules are different. Claremont will address thoughts and considerations that go into building a world that can support years of use\, and variations. How has the concept of world-building changed over time? What is the purpose of continuity? Multiplicity? How to take into account growth and risk\, and play outside the rules. Questions and answers to follow. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-claremont-opening-doors-building-worlds/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/claremont2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090420 DTSTAMP:20260525T104821 CREATED:20150309T173619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T173619Z UID:21312-1239926400-1240185599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT European Short Film Festival 2009 DESCRIPTION:MIT’s European Short Film Festival — now in its 5th year — offers a unique glimpse into the most recent short-film productions from Europe\, with a special focus on productions from European film schools and award-winning films from recent Festivals in Europe. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-european-short-film-festival-2009/ LOCATION:MIT Building 10\, Room 250\, 222 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090427 DTSTAMP:20260525T104821 CREATED:20140811T130405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T192759Z UID:21494-1240531200-1240790399@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus\, storage and transmission DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus\, storage and transmission \nIn his seminal essay “The Bias of Communication” Harold Innis distinguishes between time-based and space-based media.Time-based media such as stone or clay\, Innis agues\, can be seen as durable\, while space-based media such as paper or papyrus can be understood as portable\, more fragile than stone but more powerful because capable of transmission\, diffusion\, connections across space. \nSpeculating on this distinction\, Innis develops an account of civilization grounded in the ways in which media forms shape trade\, religion\, government\, economic and social structures\, and the arts. Our current era of prolonged and profound transition is surely as media-driven as the historical cultures Innis describes. \nHis division between the durable and the portable is perhaps problematic in the age of the computer\, but similar tensions define our contemporary situation. Digital communications have increased exponentially the speed with which information circulates. Moore’s Law continues to hold\, and with it a doubling of memory capacity every two years; we are poised to reach transmission speeds of 100 terabits per second\, or something akin to transmitting the entire printed contents of the Library of Congress in under five seconds. \nSuch developments are simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying. They profoundly challenge efforts to maintain access to the vast printed and audio-visual inheritance of analog culture as well as efforts to understand and preserve the immense\, enlarging universe of text\, image and sound available in cyberspace. What are the implications of these trends for historians who seek to understand the place of media in our own culture? \nWhat challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell\, the art we produce\, the social structures and policies we construct? \nWhat are the implications of this tension between storage and transmission for education\, for individual and national identities\, for notions of what is public and what is private? We invite papers from scholars\, journalists\, media creators\, teachers\, writers and visual artists on these broad themes.  Potential topics include: \n\nThe digital archive\nThe future of libraries and museums\nThe past and future of the book\nMobile media\nHistorical systems of communication\nMedia in the developing world\nSocial networks\nMapping media flows\nApproaches to media history\nEducation and the changing media environment\nNew forms of storytelling and expression\nLocation-based entertainment\nHyperlocal media and civic engagement\nNew modes of circulation and distribution\nThe transformation of television — from broadcast to download\nCosmopolitanism backlashes against media change\nVirtual worlds and digital tourism\nThe continuity principle: what endures or resists digital   transformation?\nThe fate of reading URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-stone-papyrus-storage-transmission/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mit6_front.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T190000 DTSTAMP:20260525T104821 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T183228Z UID:30250-1241031600-1241031600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The 11th Annual CMS Media Spectacle DESCRIPTION:An honored tradition returns on April 27th at 7PM when CMS presents the eleventh annual Media Spectacle. The event\, founded by Chris Pomiecko\, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students\, staff and faculty. \nHistorically\, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to narrative works created on every conceivable platform and device (mobisode anyone?). Since the dawning of YouTube and other user-generated video websites\, the number of submissions has increased substantially.\nThe event is hosted by Professor Henry Jenkins and judged by esteemed members of the CMS community as well as Cathy Pomiecko\, the sister of the late CMS program administrator Chris Pomieicko. After all of this year’s selected pieces are screened\, the undergraduate winner for best film will receive a cash prize and the Chris Pomiecko Trophy followed by the Claude Berry Award for the best non-undergraduate entry. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/11th-annual-cms-media-spectacle/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T104821 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170612T140447Z UID:30273-1241110800-1241110800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era DESCRIPTION:Tucker Eskew\nPresidential elections are considered decisions on politicians’ virtues and reflections of public values. On an ongoing basis\, polling data and snap punditry engorge the body politic between elections. Taken together\, these judgments on leadership and partisanship — on statecraft and stagecraft — lie at the core of democracy today. Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign(s) of the last ten years. What is “message discipline” in an era of atomized opinion leadership — a necessity or a fool’s errand? Are the parties inevitably devoted to different styles of communication\, and is this era’s favored approach inextricably the domain of the new Administration? Can unfettered dialogue\, as an expression of freedom\, be a pure benefit to society\, or is “Fire!” being texted in a crowded coffee house? Consistent with his conservatism\, Eskew will have firm answers to some of these and other questions. Reflecting his consulting firm ViaNovo’s “new ways”\, he will welcome dialogue on all. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/tucker-eskew-discipline-political-messages-unruly-era/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/skew.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR