CMS Faculty Meeting
Agenda: Old business, New business.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: cinema@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: CMS Department faculty.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Politics of Representation: A Conversation between STS and Visual Studies
Representation is not a passive act of recording; it is an active, constructed practice. In Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS), this refers to the visuality participate in the construction of techno reality; in humanities, it involves examining how different visual media reconfigure narratives of history. This roundtable bring together scholars to explore how visuality shape both the objects and methos of inquiry across STS and humanities. how do visual media actively construct knowledge, identity, and power? Here, we see STS engages with humanities to interpret the epistemic, affective, and political stakes of visual practices in diverse cultures.
Speakers:
Mal Ahern , Cinema and Media Studies
Jenna Grant, Anthropology
Yijun Li, School of Journalism and Information Communication (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) (Anthropology)
Aditya Ramesh, History
Daniela Rosner, Human Centered Design & Englineering
Diana Flores Ruíz, Cinema and Media Studies
Host: Yomi Bra…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB Room 307. Accessibility Contact: cinema@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Cinematic Returns: Affect, Language, and Sexuality in the 1990s and 2000s
Cinematic Returns: Affect, Language, and Sexuality in the 1990s and 2000s, Jinsoo An, Nguyen Tan Hoang, and Ungsan Kim
What lessons can be learned from the past, when movie theaters were filled with cinephiles and VHS technology created an alternative cultural space? Underscoring the margins of cinema and media studies, three scholars discuss the long-lasting legacy of the film and video cultures of the 1990s and 2000s. An investigates how millennial Korean films deploy speech acts and verbal expression as central elements of their popular appeal and thematic sophistication. Exploring the intersection of affect theory, queer of color critique, experimental video, and porn studies, Nguyen highlights sad porn in the 1990s. Finally, analyzing the inter-Asian remakes of queer cinema, Kim examines inter-Asian remakes of queer cinema as a life-sustaining technique of marginal cinema.
Jinsoo An (University of California, Berkeley) has written on the representation of Christianity, nationalism, historical drama,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: Communications 202. Accessibility Contact: schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, May 12, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
CMS Faculty Meeting
Agenda: Old business, New business.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: cinema@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: CMS Department faculty.
Friday, June 6, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
CMS Graduation Celebration
Graduation Celebration for Department of Cinema and Media Studies graduates, class of 2025.
Details TBA early spring quarter.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Accessibility Contact: gradcinema@uw.edu. Event Types: Ceremonies.
Friday, June 13, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.