Media Studies Colloquium
The Media Studies Colloquium brings together faculty and staff members, graduate students, and other members of the Cornell Community, along with invited guest speakers, to discuss current scholarship. To obtain pre-circulated materials, please subscribe to the media studies mailing list (MEDIA-STUDIES-L) or write to mediastudies@cornell.edu.
2024 - 2025
"Not Where But When: Escapism and Video Spectatorship"
Caetlin Benson-Allott; English, Film & Media Studies; Georgetown University
Friday, September 20, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
The Distance Cure / The Far Voice
Hannah Zeavin, History, University of California at Berkeley
WEDNESDAY, October 23, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Listen UP: Crisis Documentation through Pandemic Chinese Podcasting"
Shiqi Lin, Klarman Fellow, Asian Studies
Friday, November 15, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Controlling the Casual Counterfeiter: A Brief History of Digital Watermarking"
Gili Vidan, Information Science
Friday, December 6, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
Archive of Past Events
2023 - 2024
"New Aesthetic Forms, from Lethargy to AI"
Tung Hui-Hu, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
October 19, 9:30-11:00am
AD White House
"Wireless Futures: Speculative Media and German Modernity, 1900/2000/2100"
Erik Born, German Studies and Medieval Studies
November 17, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Understanding the Impacts and Legacies of Historical Redlining in the U.S."
Wenfei Xu, City and Regional Planning
December 1, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Small Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction"
Matthew Wilkins, Information Science
February 9, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Anonymous, QAnon, Tik-tok teens, K-pop fans"
Michelle Cho, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
March 8, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Crisscrossed Times: Reenactment in Contemporary Latin American Documentary"
Irina Raquel Troconis Gonzalez, Romance Studies
March 22, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations"
Lisa Parks, Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
April 12, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Why and How to Staff for Privacy in Academic Libraries"
Eliza Bettinger, Cornell University Library
May 3, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
2021 - 2022
“Beyond Status Effects: Disability and Japanese Role-Playing Games”
Andrew Campana, Asian Studies
September 24, 12:00-1:30pm
AD White House Tent
“The Maniac-Making Machine: A Media History of Delayed Auditory Feedback”
Owen Marshall, Science and Technology Studies
October 22, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
“A Black W/hole: Phantom Cinemas and the Reimagining of Black Women's Media Histories”
Samantha N. Sheppard, Performing and Media Arts
November 19, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
“Ruin Sound: Audio Afterlives, Reenactment, and Remembrance in the 21st Century”
María Edurne Zuazu, Society for the Humanities
December 3, 12:00-1:30pm
Uris Library 311
"Mainstream Media and the Media Personality"
Anna Shechtman, Klarman Fellow, Literatures in English
March 4, 11:00-12:30
Uris Library 311
"Impact Assessment of Human-Algorithm Feedback Loops"
J. Nathan Matias, Communication and Information Science
March 11, 1:30-3:00
Uris Library 311
“Technics Improvised, from Media Art to Archive”
Tim Murray, Comparative Literature and Literatures in English
March 18, 11:00-12:30
Uris Library 311
"Pop Art and South Asia: Aesthetics and Politics"
Iftikhar Dadi, History of Art
April 15, 1:30-3:00
Uris Library 311
“Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Queer and Trans Representations on US Television”
Katherine Sender, Communication and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
April 29, 1:30-3:00
Uris Library 311
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
September 30 Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam
"Media Archaeology as Symptom"
October 11 Iván Chaar López, Latin American Studies Program, Science and Technology Studies
"Alien Data: Immigration and Regimes of Connectivity in the U.S."
November 22 Jon McKenzie, Professor of the Practice, Department of English
"Diagrammatic Storytelling, Transmedia Knowledge, Rural Humanities"
February 7 Ziad Fahmy, Near Eastern Studies
"Early Egyptian Radio: Transitioning from Media-Capitalism to Media-Etatism, 1926-1934."
2018 - 2019
September 21 Judith Peraino (Music)
“I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes”
October 19 Katie Addleman-Frankel (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
“Crossing the Photographic Divide: Mining and Making Meaning”
November 16 Malte Ziewitz (Science and Technology Studies)
“Algorithmic Dramas”
February 14 Andrew Campana (Asian Studies)
"Parade: Eight Digital Poems of Contemporary Japan.”
March 14 Kristin Roebuck (History)
“Mediating Defeat: Grieving the Nation and National Grievance in Japan after World War II"
March 28 Athena Kirk (Classics)
“What is an epigraphe in Classical Greece?"
April 18 Parisa Vaziri (Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies)
“Pneumatics of Blackness: Nāṣir Taqvā’ī’s Bād-i Jin”
April 25 Sophia Efstathiou, Programme of Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“A Role for the Arts in Technology Assessment: The Science, Humanities and Arts Knowledge Exchange (SHAKE).”
2017 - 2018
September 2 Verity Platt, Classics and History of Art,
"The Seal of Polycrates: A Discourse on Discourse Channel Conditions.”
October 19 Jeremy Braddock, English
"'Government-Inflicted Simulation': The Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus"
November 16 Sabine Haenni, Performing and Media Arts
From The Location of Cinema: Marseilles, Film History from the Periphery
February 15 Karen Levy, Information Science
"Refractive Surveillance: Monitoring Customers to Manage Workers"
March 15 Brooke Duffy, Communication
"Idols of Promotion: The Triumph of Self-Branding in the Age of Precarity"
April 19 Jennifer Minner, City and Regional Planning
"Assembly and Care of Memory: Revisiting the Past with Objects, Landscapes, and Online Media"
2016 - 2017
September 29 Nick Salvato (Performing and Media Arts)
"Digressiveness"
October 27 Steve Jackson (Information Science, Science and Technology Studies)
"Rethinking Repair"
December 1 Lee Humphreys (Communication)
from The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
January 26 Roger Moseley (Music)
from Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
February 23 Jenny Sabin (Architecture, Art & Planning)
"Transformative Research Practice: Architectural Affordances and Crisis"
March 23 Sasa Zivkovic (Architecture, Art & Planning)
"Beyond the Ecology of Concrete Sausages"
April 27 Astrid Van Oyen (Classics)
"Finding the Material in Material Culture: Form and Matter in Roman Concrete" (from Materializing Roman Histories)
Media Studies Minor Colloquium (PMA 2000)
This 1-credit course is required for undergraduate minors. Members of the Media Studies undergraduate cohort will meet once a week to share and reflect on their experiences and discuss relevant concepts.