seminar in media and political theory
POPULISM
2017-2018
Primary Focus
The Seminar on Populism (2017-18), co-lead with Giuseppe Fidotta and Joaquin Serpe, examines populist media, popular culture, and political theory. Focused on a wide range of approaches to populism and populist media, as well as current irruptions, the working group reconsiders how different political projects and movements articulate the anxieties, desires, and tastes of the “people” into their discourses. To address the confusions associated with "populisms" manifold uses, the seminar pays particular attention to the role of media and mediation, and argues for a transition for "populist media" to "media populism."
*Note: a special issue examining "Media Populism" is forthcoming in the journal Culture Machine in November 2019. The issue is edited by Joshua Neves, Giuseppe Fidotta, and Joaquin Serpe, and includes essays by: David Bering-Porter, Patrick Brodie, Kay Dickinson, Dilip Goankar, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Weixian Pan, Jason Pine, and Arvind Rajagopal.
Populist Media, Popular Culture and Political Theory Working Group
2017-2018 Annual Initiatives & Working Groups
Cinema in the Midst of Struggle
Screening Series, Organized by Sima Kokotovic, Egor Shmonin, and Patrick Brian Smith
Organizers: Patrick Brodie, Weixian Pan, Joaquin Serpe
INCOMPIUTO SICILIANO, BIRTH OF A STYLE
Lecture and Master Class by Andrea Masu, Organized with support from the Institute for Urban Futures
Documentary Making as Wayfinding in Singapore
Master Class with Tan Pin Pin, in conjunction with RIDM
ENZO TRAVERSO SEMINAR: Left-Wing Melancholia
Seminar with Enzo Traverso (Cornell)
Works-In-Progress Working Group
Organizers: Patrick Brodie, Patrick Smith & Viviane Saglier
Workshops:
Documenting Capital: Intersections of Free Trade Zone Architecture and Digital Filmmaking
Patrick Brodie and Patrick Brian Smith (Concordia University)
Excavating the Invisible: Mapping Subaltern Solidarity
Sabah Haider
The Migrant Cinema: Indigenous Tibetan Films
Yi Cui (York University)
Historiographies of the Present: Whither Our Imaginations of Futurity and Solidarity?
Dr. Mihaela Brebenel (University of Southampton)
Film Production Worlds: Fragments from Myanmar
Theo Stojanov (Concordia University)
2017-2018 Sponsored Talks, Workshops & Events
Filming Revolution and the Non-Narrative Poetics of the Database
Talk by Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex)
Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
Talk by Jennifer Holt (UCSB)
Joshua Clover’s Talk – The Two No’s
Talk co-organized with Cinema in the Midst of Struggle screening series
Intimate Attunements: Legacies of Sonar and Sexual Surveillance on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula
Talk by Alix Johnson (UC Santa Cruz), Co-organized with Ethnography Lab
Pornography's Graphical Interface
Lecture by Patrick Keilty (University of Toronto)
Lecture by Erika Balsom (King's College London)
Contemporary East Asian Postinternet Art of the Moving Image
Lecture by Jihoon Kim (Chung-ang University, South Korea)
The unstable object: Screening and discussion with filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg
Screening and Discussion with Daniel Eisenberg (School of Art Institute of Chicago)
Conversations in Contemporary Art Presents: Kevin B. Lee
Lecture by Kevin B. Lee
Seminar with Sandro Mezzadra (Università di Bologna)
VISIONS: THE DIASPORA SUITE: A Selection of Works by Ephraim Asili
Screenings in collaboration with Visions & La Lumière Collective
VISIONS: Sky Hopinka - American Traditional War Songs + What Was Always Yours and Never Lost
Screenings in collaboration with Visions, Montreal First Peoples Festival & La Lumière Collective