Graduate Student Conference
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2026 Conference: Inter-Media
The 21st annual Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference will take place April 24-25, 2026.
Organizers
- Jiyoon Kim
- Ziyi Lin
- Patrick Gwillim-Thomas
Keynote Speaker
- Miryam Sas (UC Berkeley)
Website
Previous Conferences
2025: Failing Media
- Organizers: Hugo Ljungbäck & Nat Modlin
- Keynote Speaker: Nicholas Baer (UC Berkeley)
- Website: Failing Media
2024: Playing with Animals
- Organizers: Bret Hart & Hunter Koch
- Keynote Speaker: Alenda Y. Chang (UC Santa Barbara)
- Website: Playing with Animals
2023: Cause/Effect
- Organizers: Tiya Bolton and Andy Oranday
- Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Dick (Simon Fraser University)
- Website: Cause/Effect
2022: Silly Media
- Organizers: Basil Dababneh, Avery Laflamme, Nicolas Rueda-Sabater, Joel Sutherland
- Keynote Speaker: Racquel Gates (Columbia University)
- Website: Silly Media
2021: Site/Seeing
- Organizers: Jenisha Borah, Maggie Sivit, Ashley Truehart, Avery Laflamme
- Keynote Speaker: Alison Griffiths (CUNY, Baruch College)
2019: Documenting the Archive
- Organizers: Sean Batton, Ritika Kaushik, Cinta Peleja
- Keynote Speaker: Paula Amad (University of Iowa)
- Website: Documenting the Archive
2018: Sensing Media
- Organizers: Dave Burnham, Gary Kafer, Amy Skjerseth
- Keynote Speaker: Mark Hansen (Duke University)
- Website: Sensing Media
2017: Trauma and Melodrama
- Organizers: AP Pettinelli, Tyler Schroeder, Tien-Tien Jong Zhang
- Keynote Speaker: Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University)
- Website: Trauma and Melodrama
2016: Still Walking, Still Sleeping, Still Life: Slow Aesthetics and the Moving Image
- Organizers: Zain Jamshaid, Katerina Korola, Pao-chen Tang
- Keynote Speaker: Jean Ma (Stanford University)
- Website: Still Walking, Still Sleeping, Still Life: Slow Aesthetics and the Moving Image
2015: Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen
- Organizers: Matt Hubbell, Noa Merkin, Nicole Morse
- Keynote Speaker: Elena Gorfinkel (King's College London)
- Website: Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen