# Graduate Student Conference

**Source**: https://cms.uchicago.edu/news-events/graduate-student-conference
**Parent**: https://cms.uchicago.edu/

## 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](https://filmmedia.berkeley.edu/people/miryam-sas) (UC Berkeley)

### Website

- [Inter-Media](https://voices.uchicago.edu/inter-media/)

## Previous Conferences

### 2025: Failing Media

- Organizers: Hugo Ljungbäck & Nat Modlin
- Keynote Speaker: [Nicholas Baer](https://german.berkeley.edu/people/nicholas-baer) (UC Berkeley)
- Website: [Failing Media](https://voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/)

### 2024: Playing with Animals

- Organizers: Bret Hart & Hunter Koch
- Keynote Speaker: [Alenda Y. Chang](https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/alenda-y-chang/) (UC Santa Barbara)
- Website: [Playing with Animals](https://playingwithanimals.neocities.org/)

### 2023: Cause/Effect

- Organizers: Tiya Bolton and Andy Oranday
- Keynote Speaker: [Stephanie Dick](https://www.sfu.ca/communication/people/faculty/stephanie-dick.html) (Simon Fraser University)
- Website: [Cause/Effect](https://causeeffect2023.wordpress.com/)

### 2022: Silly Media

- Organizers: Basil Dababneh, Avery Laflamme, Nicolas Rueda-Sabater, Joel Sutherland
- Keynote Speaker: [Racquel Gates](https://arts.columbia.edu/news/associate-professor-racquel-gates-consulting-producer-and-editor-melvin-van-peebles-box-set) (Columbia University)
- Website: [Silly Media](https://sillymedia2022.wordpress.com/)

### 2021: Site/Seeing

- Organizers: Jenisha Borah, Maggie Sivit, Ashley Truehart, Avery Laflamme
- Keynote Speaker: [Alison Griffiths](https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Theatre-and-Performance/Faculty-Bios/Alison-Griffiths) (CUNY, Baruch College)

### 2019: Documenting the Archive

- Organizers: Sean Batton, Ritika Kaushik, Cinta Peleja
- Keynote Speaker: [Paula Amad](https://cinematicarts.uiowa.edu/people/paula-amad) (University of Iowa)
- Website: [Documenting the Archive](https://documentingthearchive.wordpress.com/)

### 2018: Sensing Media

- Organizers: Dave Burnham, Gary Kafer, Amy Skjerseth
- Keynote Speaker: [Mark Hansen](https://literature.duke.edu/people/mark-bn-hansen) (Duke University)
- Website: [Sensing Media](https://sensingmedia.wordpress.com/)

### 2017: Trauma and Melodrama

- Organizers: AP Pettinelli, Tyler Schroeder, Tien-Tien Jong Zhang
- Keynote Speaker: [Elisabeth Anker](https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/elisabeth-anker) (George Washington University)
- Website: [Trauma and Melodrama](https://traumamelodrama.wordpress.com/)

### 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](https://art.stanford.edu/people/jean-ma) (Stanford University)
- Website: [Still Walking, Still Sleeping, Still Life: Slow Aesthetics and the Moving Image](https://slowaesthetics.wordpress.com/programme/schedule/)

### 2015: Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen

- Organizers: Matt Hubbell, Noa Merkin, Nicole Morse
- Keynote Speaker: [Elena Gorfinkel](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/elena-gorfinkel) (King's College London)
- Website: [Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen](https://performingbodies2015.wordpress.com/)