Cinema Theatre Seminar

Friday, December 4, 2-4 PM At The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Sunny Xiang (English, Yale University) Conspiratorial Thinking; Or, Breathing Together Abstract: My talk uses two seemingly disparate material cultural objects that have long preoccupied me—gas masks and bras—to build toward a theory of conspiracy based on the… Read More

Friday, November 6th, 2 – 4 PM, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Pedagogy Workshop with Rebecca K. VanDiver (History of Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt University), Yucong Hao (Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University), and Isaac West (Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University). Abstract:Please… Read More

Friday, September 25, 2 – 4 PM, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Debashree Mukherjee (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University) “Contract and Conjuring: Indian Film Exhibition in Colonial Fiji” Abstract: In 1933, three Indian gentlemen sued the owners of Lilac Theatre,… Read More