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-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:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T221800 CREATED:20160219T132921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160219T133629Z UID:26775-1457024400-1457024400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Excellence in Teaching DESCRIPTION:What separates a good teacher from a great one? How are digital technologies challenging traditional teaching methods? And are there distinctions between top-notch science instructors and their counterparts in humanities or social science? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky\, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn. \nDavid Thorburn is an MIT Literature professor\, director emeritus of the Communications Forum\, and a past winner of MIT’s MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nRobert Pinsky is a three-term US Poet Laureate. He is a recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. \nAlan Guth is MIT’s Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics\, pioneer of the inflationary model of the universe and recipient of the MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nHazel Sive is a biology professor at MIT\, a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and a recipient of the MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nA reception in room 14E-304 will follow. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/excellence-in-teaching/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/David-Thorburn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160310T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160310T190000 DTSTAMP:20260421T221800 CREATED:20160201T181400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160201T183414Z UID:26701-1457629200-1457636400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Guy Maddin DESCRIPTION:Installation artist\, filmmaker\, and director Guy Maddin\nGuy Maddin and his partners are communing with the spirits of long-lost movies. In a conversation with William Uricchio\, Maddin will discuss why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion\, how we can take advantage of the Internet to involve new publics\, and how the act of doing so might help to create a new web-based art form. \nMaddin is an installation artist\, writer and filmmaker\, the director of eleven feature-length movies\, including The Forbidden Room (2015) and My Winnipeg (2007). \nIn the winter of 2015/16 he and Evan Johnson will launch their major internet interactive work\, Seances\, which will enable anyone online to “hold séances with” movies fashioned out of fragments of long-lost films. \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Ariane Labed From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Maria de Medeiros From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Clara Furey From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project \n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n  URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/conversation-with-guy-maddin/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Guy-Maddin.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T221800 CREATED:20160129T150240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160129T150705Z UID:26691-1458234000-1458234000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Thomas Elsaesser: "Media Archaeology as Symptom" DESCRIPTION:Thomas ElsaesserColumbia University\nFor nearly one hundred years\, the moving image has been discussed primarily from the perspective of photography: organizing our questions and theories around cinema as an ocular dispositif\, based on light\, projection and transparency\, or as a recording dispositif\, based on index\, imprint and trace. In the age of digital imaging technologies\, some of which have little to do with optics\, such a history of the moving image seems too narrowly conceived. The broadly based\, if loosely defined research field calling itself “media archaeology” not only locates the cinema within more comprehensive media histories\, it also investigates apparently obsolete\, overlooked\, or poorly understood past media practices. The expectation is that by once more “opening up” these pasts\, one can enable or envisage a different future. The question then arises: is media archaeology a (viable) disciplinary subject or a (valuable) symptom also of changes in our ideas of history\, causality and contingency? \nThomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam and since 2013 has been teaching at Columbia University. Among his most recent books are: The Persistence of Hollywood (New York: Routledge\, 2012) and Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (New York: Routledge\, 2nd edition 2015\, with Malte Hagener). Forthcoming is Film History as Media Archaeology – Tracking Digital Cinema (Amsterdam University Press\, 2016). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thomas-elsaesser-media-archaeology-as-symptom/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Thomas-Elsaesser.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160331T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160331T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T221800 CREATED:20160113T145202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160115T152205Z UID:26609-1459443600-1459443600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Glebatis Perks: "Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement" DESCRIPTION:Lisa Perks\, Merrimack College\nAlthough the popular press primarily uses the negatively connoted phrase “binge-watching\,” Lisa Glebatis Perks employs the label “media marathoning” to describe viewers’ rapid engagement with a story world. Rather than positioning these media experiences as mindless indulgences\, the phrase media marathoning intimates engrossment\, effort\, and purpose. These media engagement efforts can be rewarded with pleasurable experiences\, but they can also lead to feelings of disappointment. Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences\, including anger\, empathy\, parasocial mourning\, nostalgia\, and regret. The theme of the talk is that characters become the marathoners’ pseudo-avatars\, gaining shape\, texture\, and life through viewers’ affective investments. \nLisa Glebatis Perks (Ph.D.\, University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Merrimack College. She recently published Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality\, which explores the ways readers and viewers become absorbed in a fictive text and dedicate many hours to exploring its narrative contours. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-perks-media-marathoning-and-affective-involvement/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Lisa-Perks.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR