From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Sep 9 17:39:15 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:37 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Sept 28 - Oct 2 | Social Justice Film Festival 2022 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I?m writing to you on behalf of the Social Justice Film Institute to make sure you know about the 2022 Social Justice Film Festival, taking place in person in Seattle between September 28 and October 2. We?re screening an impressive catalog of films covering many of today?s most pressing issues including racial justice, Indigenous rights, environmental activism, and more. I hope you will join us and share this information with others. Thank you, Kelsey Kelsey Tritt, MPA Social Justice Film Institute They/Them info@socialjusticefilmfestival.org (206) 227-5045 __________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Patrick Harvey September 2, 2022 206-769-3459, patrick@socialjusticefilminstitute.org Social Justice Film Festival 2022 presented by the Social Justice Film Institute and Northwest Film Forum What: The Social Justice Film Festival and Institute presents the Tenth Annual Social Justice Film Festival, a five-day event featuring more than 40 films from activist filmmakers highlighting climate, racial, reproductive, and LGBTQIA+ issues around the world. The 2022 Social Justice Film Festival is a celebration of the power of people and film to push for change within their homes and communities. When: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 until Sunday, October 2, 2022 Where: Enjoy the festival from home or in person! This year?s festival can be experienced from home via Northwest Film Forum?s Eventive virtual cinema platform, or in-person at NWFF?s Capitol Hill venue (1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122). Filmmaker Q&As will only take place at in-person screenings, so please join us if you?re comfortable doing so! Cost: In-person tickets: $13 General / $10 Student/Senior / $7 NWFF Members Online film programs are priced on a sliding scale of $5-$25. Pay what you can! Festival passes (both in-person and online) are available on a sliding scale of $75, $100, and $125 Passes are also on sale for $50 to members of Northwest Film Forum Passes are available at https://www.socialjusticefilmfestival.org/sjff2022 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Sep 16 05:50:27 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:37 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] REMINDER: Open Cultural Studies / call for proposals for topical issues Message-ID: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR TOPICAL ISSUES of "OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES" vol. 2023 "Open Cultural Studies" (degruyter.com/culture) [https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/journal_key/CULTURE/product] Open Cultural Studies degruyter.com invites groups of researchers, conference organizers and individual scholars to submit their proposals of edited volumes to be considered for publication as topical issues of the journal. To submit your proposal please contact Dr Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com Proposals will be collected by October 31, 2022. ............. "Open Cultural Studies" is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different theoretical, geographical and historical contexts. The journal would like to promote new research perspectives in cultural studies, but it also seeks to map out social and political scholarship that places questions of inequalities and imbalances of power at the heart of academic debate. OUR PREVIOUS SPECIAL/TOPICAL ISSUES: - J. G. Ballard and Making - Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe - Of Sacred Crossroads: Cultural Studies and the Sacred - Musical Improvisation: Approaches, Practices, Reception and Pedagogy - Images of the Future: Science Fiction across the Media - Motion and Emotion: Cultural Literacy on the Move - New Nationalisms in European and Postcolonial Discourses - Black Womanhood in Popular Culture - Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis - Capitalist Aesthetics - Media and Emotions. The New Frontiers of Affect in Digital Culture - Transmediating Culture(s)? - On Uses of Black Camp - Migration and Translation - Multicultural Cervantes - Victorians Like Us - Domesticity and Worldliness - MatteRealities: Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies - Alberto Blest Gana at 100 - Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern to Post-Modern Children?s Literature and Culture - Taiwanese Identity - Black Girl Magic: Redefining New Black Feminist Thought (in progress) - Writing the Image, Showing the Word: The Agency of Knowledge Production in Texts and Images (in progress) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Wed Sep 21 10:50:55 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:37 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] [Northwest Media Commons] Call for Proposals for 2023 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I have a reminder and an announcement. First the reminder: The deadline for Northwest Media Commons proposals for 2023 is October 1st. Please review the instructions from my previous email about what to send if you want to submit a proposal. Second, I am thrilled to announce that Lauren S. Berliner has agreed to join me as a co-organizer of the NWMC. Lauren is an Associate Professor in Media and Communications at University of Washington Bothell. We have already met and I am so excited about what Lauren will bring to this organization! Please join me in welcoming her onboard. sincerely, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.benjaminschultzfigueroa.com ________________________________ From: Uwcinema on behalf of UW Cinema Studies List Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2022 9:23 AM To: Mal Ahern ; Jennifer Bean ; Cinema Studies Mailing List at UW ; Lauren Berliner ; psufilm@pdx.edu ; Sangita Gopal ; Sergio Rigoletto ; Johnston, Alexander ; Film Studies Faculty ; Eric Ames ; jgosse@uidaho.edu ; Zoe Druick ; Clark, Joseph ; Wilkinson, Clare M ; Michael Aronson Subject: [UWcinema] [Northwest Media Commons] Call for Proposals for 2023 Dear colleagues, I hope you all are having a rejuvenating summer! I am writing to solicit your proposals for next year's Northwest Media Commons. If you are interested in presenting a paper or a film (in whatever stage of completion), please send me a title, brief description of the project, your bio, and your preferred time of year for presenting (Winter, Spring, or Fall) by October 1st. My hope is to have the whole year mapped out by the end of December. Additionally, if you have ideas for other kinds of events that we could do as a community (field trips, in-person events, a happy hour, etc.) that you would like to organize, please feel free to message me. Finally, if anyone is interested in either co-organizing or taking over the running of NWMC from me, please let me know. I am happy to continue running these events but would also welcome other (co-)leadership. sincerely, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/undergraduate-degrees/film/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Thu Sep 29 12:48:44 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] FW: Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit and related events In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Walstrom > Date: Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 3:19 PM Subject: Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit and related events To: jsis-staff (jsis-staff@uw.edu) >, > JSIS faculty and staff, Welcome to the academic year 2022-23! I look forward to seeing you around Thomson Hall. In collaboration with Seattle Veterans for Peace and the Southeast Asia Center, UW Libraries is hosting the exhibit Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War [wagingpeaceinvietnam.com]. The exhibit tells the story of opposition to the war from within the US military, and will be on display in the Allen Library north lobby until October 28th. Tomorrow, 9/28 at 10am the exhibit curator, Ron Carver, is giving a 45 minute guided tour. If you'd like to attend please send me a quick rsvp at mwal7@uw.edu In conjunction with the exhibit, we have a series of events occurring throughout October. GI & Veteran Resistance in the PNW 10/6 | 9:30am - 5pm | HUB 332 Reception with PeaceTrees Vietnam 10/6 | 5pm | HUB 334 Film Screenings - Thursday evenings at 6pm - Thomson Hall 101 Sir, No Sir | 10/13 The FTA Show | 10/20 The Boys Who Said No | 10/27 War, Peace, & Resistance in Poetry & Song 10/18 | 6:30pm | HUB 145 Student Essay Contest Veterans for Peace is offering a $500 prize for the best student essay related to the exhibit and events. The contest will be judged by photojournalist Nick Ut, winner of the '73 Pulitzer Prize for his photo The Terror of War, which depicts children fleeing from a napalm attack. These events are cosponsored by the Department of History and Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. Find more details on the SEAC events calendar and attached poster. Best wishes for fall quarter, Michael -- Michael Walstrom (he/him/his) Managing Director, Southeast Asia Center Henry M. 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