Cinema Theatre Seminar

“The Missing Things People” Friday, April 10, 2026 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities In this era of climate disturbance, how do we decipher genres produced by increasing displacement and unhousing? How do we understand documents of loss? In this talk, I… Read More

“Better Living in Eichlerville: California Modernism’s Influence on Apple” Friday, February 27th, 2026 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities This talk studies a set of Californian suburban tract housing developments built by Joseph Eichler during the 1950s-1970s. Working with architects… Read More

“Horace Pippin and the Historical Medium of Wood” Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan) Friday, February 13, 2026 10 a.m.12 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities In this talk, Parrish will focus upon Horace Pippin (1888-1946), a self-taught modernist painter and “pyrographer” who… Read More

“The Sincerity Threshold and the Media Theory of Muhammad Ali” Jennifer Fay (Department of English and Cinema & Media Arts, Vanderbilt University)  Friday, December 5, 2026 2 – 4 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities  From the mid 1960s through the mid 1970s,… Read More