Screening of Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Helmut Stern Auditorium - UMMA
5:30 p.m. -- Free Admission
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Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country. This documentary film provides a new perspective on a country usually associated with only war and genocide. The film is a celebration of the incredible music that came from Cambodia and explores how important it is to Cambodian society both past and present.
This event is organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Sheldon Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the Center for World Performance Studies, and WCBN-FM.
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Professor Johannes von Moltke and the German Studies Colloquium Present
A Talk by UNC's Inga Pollman: "Mise-en-scène, Mood, Milieu: Stimmung as a Compositional Principle"
Friday, January 29, 2016
3308 MLB
2:00 p.m. - Free and Open to the Public
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Inga Pollmann studied film, German Literature and Philosophy in Kiel, Berlin, Seattle and Chicago. She received her degree in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago in 2011. Her research focuses on the history of film theory, intersections of film, science and philosophy, and the place of the moving image within aesthetic theory. She has published on Russian montage cinema, German abstract cinema, the interrelation of German biology, particularly the writings of Uexküll, and film theory in the 1920s, the question of mood and coldness in film, and contemporary German cinema.
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SAC Speaker Series Presents
A Talk by Doctoral Candidate Josh Morrison: "Camp Labour: Productive Violence, Queers Bashing Back, and the Cine-Fist"
Friday, February 5, 2016
SAC Conference Room 6360, North Quad
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Image from Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives
(Israel Luna, 2010)
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In this working talk, Josh Morrison will outline the larger theoretical framework of his dissertation, "Excess Labour, Excessive Consumption: A Theory of Loving Media, Useless Use Value, and Queer Cultural Capital." Each chapter of his dissertation reframes a media genre or aesthetic style as a form of queer labour and rethinks key terms in materialist theories of value. Josh will focus on chapter three of his dissertation, on camp as labour, and how queers and transfolk consume "bad" media as a way to communally ameliorate the affective traumas of living under capitalism, especially in Israel Luna's controversial film Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives (2010). He will finish with a tentative discussion of the links between exploitation and queer consumptive labour.
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#UMBLACKOUT Symposium
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Assembly Hall, 4th Floor Rackham Graduate School
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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In honor of Black History Month the #UMBlackout: Mobilizing Black Communities for Radical Transformation in the Digital Age symposium invites your participation in a working session about contemporary black activist leadership for transformative change through digital forums. Through workshops, lectures, and a panel discussion, a wide variety of scholars, campus and grassroots organizers will engage in diverse reflections about the role of the internet in social change efforts through strategic mobilization. Join us in a collective discussion to advance discourse and direct action in community practice in the digital age.
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BEHIND THE SCENES WITH SAC ALUMNI
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SAC's Will O'Donnell ('15) recently claimed the title "Young Alumnus of the Month" and was featured on the UM Alumni Association's website. In an interview with Alexander Bernard, O'Donnell reveals the details about his post-graduation adventures. After backpacking in Europe for two months, he moved to New York in hopes of becoming a Production Assistant.. Recently, O'Donnell has worked on two Woody Allen films, Showtime's new series "Billions," and Hulu's new comedy "Difficult People." He states, "[W]hile the hours are unhealthy 90 percent of the time (14 hours is a standard day), I really do love what I do and consider myself lucky to be a part of so many great productions." When asked where he is going after his work on "Difficult People" ends, O'Donnell responds, " [...] Sometimes part of being a production assistant is that you don't know what your next gig is until your current one ends. Sometimes you don't even know where you'll be working on Friday. You just have to do your best work, maintain all of your connections, and figure it out. It keeps me on my toes."
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTO
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photo credit - Yuki Nakayama
At left, students gather in NQ Space 2435 to hear USC Professor Akira Lippit's talk "Like a Sleeping Cat (In Roland Barthes's Empire of Sleeping Cats)," part of the SAC Speaker Series. At right, SAC Doctoral Candidate Yuki Nakayama and Associate Professor Daniel Herbert thank Lippit at the reception in the Donald Hall Collection.
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