Cinema Studies Event Announcements

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This list provides details on upcoming events sponsored by the Cinema Studies Institute. It also includes archival posters and documents (in reverse chronological order) about past events and courses.

For Free Friday Films, please visit the CINSSU website. For Innis Town Hall events not sponsored by CSI, please visit their website.

Upcoming Events 2012-13

April 18, 2013: Cinema Medica screening: Son Frère

May: Screening of Midnight's Children (details tba)

2012-13

March 28, 2013: "Disney Derives the Future: Cognitive Capitalism and Brand Realism": Jerome Christensen ( UC Irvine), author of America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures, 1929-2001 (Stanford UP) will be giving a talk, 5-7 pm. (Sponsored by Centre for the Study of the United States, co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College, and Department of English)

March 28, 2013: Professor Ed Dimendberg (UC, Irvine), Publishing Workshop, 2-4pm – JHI 100A, (with individual consultations 4-5pm)
March 22, 2013: Sarah Polley - moderated by Prof. Charlie Keil (Presented by JHI, Drama, UCLit.ca, and the UC Writing Centre)
March 20, 2013: "Just for a Thrill: Gun Violence and Hollywood": Universal Screenwriter-in-Residence talk by Norman Snider (4 p.m., Media Commons Theatre)
March 19, 2013: Backpack to Briefcase: "Three Things"
March 13-14, 2013: Film in the 21st Century Global Arena: Spotlight on Brazilian Director Jose Padilha (Bus 174, Elite Squad, Robocop). (Co-sponsored by the Cinema Studies Institute and the Munk School of Global Affairs.)
- March 13, 2013: “Film, National Identity, and Globalization: Culture and Business in the 21st Century” – A Round Table Discussion
- March 14, 2013: Elite Squad Screening and Q& A with the Director
March 1, 2013: CSUS Speaker Series: Kara Keeling

March 1, 2013: "Warriors of the Rainbow": Panel and Screening. Panelists: Colin Geddes (TIFF Midnight Madness Programmer), Scott Simon (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa), and Bart Testa (Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Toronto), (Co-sponsored by The Munk School of Global Affairs, the Asian Institute, and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, CINSSU, the Dr. David Chu program in Asia Pacific Studies and the East Asia Seminar Series.)

February 28, 2013: "The Global Popular": Bhaskar Sarkar (UC Santa Barbara) on “Cosmoplastics: Indian Video Cultures”; and Bishnupriya Ghosh (UC Santa Barbara) on “An Unhomely Sense: The Spectral Cinema of Globalizing India”, organized by organized by Meghan Sutherland, Kajri Jain, and Brian Price (Co-sponsored by the Department of Visual Studies (UTM), the Centre for South Asian Studies, and the Cinema Studies Institute)
February 27, 2013: Fire: Deepa Mehta’s exquisite film about forbidden love between women in India
February 14, 2013: "The Eventfulness of Technology - Media Interface After the Cyborg": A talk by Professor Thomas LaMarre (McGill University).
February 9, 2013: "Film and Television": A colloquium organized by the MA class of 2013.
January 30 and February 6, 13, 27, 2013: "Queer Spirits!" The Qu(e)erying Religion Mini-Film Festival. (Various sponsors, including Innis College.)

Jan 30: Taking a Chance on God: Documentary profile of John McNeill, pioneer gay Catholic priest.

Feb 6: Call Me Kuchu: Documentary about Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato

Feb 13: Seventh-Gay Adventists: A film about faith on the margins

Feb 27: Fire: Deepa Mehta’s exquisite film about forbidden love between women in India
January 25, 2013: "Devouring Images": Symposium about visual images of eating and devouring. Luka Arsenjuk (respondent James Cahill); Eugenie Brinkema (respondent Meghan Sutherland) (sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute)
November 22, 2012: Reception and Film Screening of War and Peache / Jang aur Aman. With Anand Patwardhan, filmmaker. (Sponsored by Royal Ontario Museum Friends of South Asia, Centre for South Asian Studies, and co-sponsored by Ancient Echoes Modern Voices South Asian Program Fund of the Royal Ontario Museum, Asian Institute, Cinema Studies Institute, and Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies)
November 23, 2012: "Cinema of Resistance": Anand Patwardhan, India's vanguard documentary filmmaker, with Rita Birla (opening remarks) and Kajri Jain (chair). (Sponsored by Royal Ontario Museum Friends of South Asia, Centre for South Asian Studies, and co-sponsored by Ancient Echoes Modern Voices South Asian Program Fund of the Royal Ontario Museum, Asian Institute, Cinema Studies Institute, and Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies)
November 15, 2012: "Dark Victory", Cinema Medica screening
November 13, 2012: "Film Director Yim Ho--In Conversation", Yim Ho (award-winning film director, Hong Kong), moderated by Bart Testa (sponsored by the Asian Institute, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival)
November 9, 2012: Screening of John Woo's "A Better Tomorrow", Q&A with editor/director David Wu (sponsored by the Asian Institute, co-sponsored by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), Cinema Studies Institute, CINSSU, and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival)
November 7, 2012: "backpack 2 Briefcase"
October 10, 2012: "How to Drag Your Private Life, Kicking and Screaming, Into the Public: Looking Back at Thirty-Four Years of Filmmaking" a talk with filmmaker Su Friedrich. (presented by Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College, and the Department of Visual Studies at UTM)
September 27, 2012: CINSSU grad info session
September 28, 2012: "Branding Consumer Citizens: Gender and the Emergence of Brand Culture" with Sarah Banet-Weiser. (Centre for the Study of the United States, co-sponsored with Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College)

2011-12

May 10, 2012: "Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster" screening with filmmaker Patricia Rozema, director & screenwriter Nathan Morlando, producer Allison Black, and supporting actor Kevin Durand (presented by Innis College Alumni Network)
March 15, 2012: "Payback" free screening and Q&A with director Jennifer Baichwal, moderated by Corinn Columpar.
March 9, 2012: "Viewing Film from a 'Production Perspective': Sociological Methods to Illuminate the Significance of Film", a Toronto Film Seminar talk by Shyon Baumann
March 2, 2012: "Symposium on Law and Film", (sponsored by Centre for the Study of the United States, co-sponsored by Faculty of Law, Cinema Studies Institute, Department of English, Centre for Comparative Literature, Centre for Innovation and Law Policy)
February 28, 2012: "Backpack to Briefcase: Three Things For Your Career", with screenwriter and executive producer Tassie Cameron, filmmaker and distributor Miguel Gallego, and lawyer Caroline Mandell, moderated by Charlie Keil. (presented by Political Science, English, Innis College, Cinema Studies, Alumni & Advancement, and the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto)
February 27, 2012: "A Talk with the Director of Snow", with director Rohan Fernando and actor Kalista Zackhariyas (presented by the Centre for Comparative Literature and the Cinema Studies Institute, co-sponsored by the Asian Institute, Sutram Pictures, the Pan-Asia Student Society, and the Cinema Studies Student Union)
January 20, 2011: "Mediacracy", a Toronto Film Seminar talk by Meghan Sutherland
December 8, 2011: "Iranian Cinema - A Historiography", a talk by Hamid Naficy (presented by the University of Toronto, the Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, the Department of Historical Studies-UTM, the Department of History, and the Cinema Studies Institute in collaboration with The Foundation for Iranian Studies)
November 16, 2011: "Backpack to Briefcase: Career Panel Discussion with Alumni Guest Speakers", with Peter Kuplowsky, Alyse Rosenberg, Shelley Saywell, Radheyan Simonpillai. Moderated by Corinn Columpar.

November 11, 2011: "Panel Discussion "Film" Studies in the Post-Medium Age", Toronto Film Seminar at TIFF Bell Lightbox, with Tess Takahashi, Brian Price and Aubrey Anable. Moderated by Charlie Keil.
November 1, 2011: "An Evening With Deepa Mehta", presented by Innis College and the University of Toronto

October 12, 2011: "Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project". A screening and roundtable discussion with Barry Avrich, Richard Crouse, Bryan Gliserman and Peter Howell, moderated by Corinn Columpar (Innis College and Cinema Studies Institute)

2010-11

May 26, 2011: "Celebrating Kay Armatage: Scholar/Teacher/Programmer/Filmmaker". A roundtable discussion (presented by Innis College, Cinema Studies Institute, and Women and Gender Studies Institute)
May 9-10, 2011: "Cinema of Displeasure": A colloquium organized by the MA class of 2011.
March 17, 2011: "Web-Slinging: Film Criticism Online": A panel discussion with Margaux Williamson, Adam Nayman, and James McNally
March 2, 2011: "The Beijing Blueprint" by Joshua Neves (Jackman Humanities Institute talk)
February 17, 2011: "YouTube Rising: Publics, Popularity, and Politics" by Alexandra Juhasz (The Cinema Studies Institute at Innis College, University of Toronto presents, in collaboration with The New Media Project and Women & Gender Studies Institute, New College (UT), Sexual Diversity Studies (UT) and OCADU)
January 27, 2011: "Manners of Unfolding in the Cinema" by Laura U. Marks (Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies, the Centre for Comparative Literature, and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations)
January 26, 2011: backpack 2 Briefcase: Three Things
January 20, 2011: backpack 2 Briefcase: Networking
January 13, 2011: Book Launch: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman, Cinema Studies Alumnus (Co-sponsored by Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute)
December 3, 2010: "The Image and the Archive" with Mark Garrett Cooper, Elspeth Brown, James Cahill and Sophie Thomas (Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States, the Cinema Studies Institute, and the Jackman Humanities Institute)
December 2, 2010: "The Humanities after Hollywood" by Mark Garrett Cooper (Co-Sponsored by: Cinema Studies and Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs)
November 22, 2010: Barney's Version: free screening and Q&A with producer Robert Lantos (Co-Sponsored by Cinema Studies and the Innis Alumni Network)
November 5, 2010: Digital Apocalypse? The Documentary and New Technologies by Carl Plantinga
October 28, 2010: "Passage": A Film by John Walker (Co-Sponsored by: Cinema Studies, Innis College, and Department of History, University of Toronto, Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs)
October 21, 2010: Dramaturgy and Storytelling for Documentaries, by visiting professor Dr. Kerstin Stutterheim (in collaboration with the German Department)
October 6, 2010: backpack 2 Briefcase
October 5, 2010: Seeds of Doubt: free screening, Q&A with director Samir Nasr after the movie (A co-presentation by the Centre for Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies Institute and the Goethe-Institut Toronto)
June 13-16, 2010: DOMITOR Conference (co-hosted by Ryerson University and University of Toronto | Domitor | blog)
- June 14: screening, Jackman Hall
- June 15: screening, Innis Town Hall (UofT Events)
- June 16: screening, Revue Cinema

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