Students gain experience in academic symposia by participating in the yearly conference.

CULTURAL TRANSACTIONS: Across Media and Continents
The Fifth Annual MA in Film and Media Studies Conference presents papers by the class of 2023 that address questions about sending and receiving, whether messages or cultures, signals or signs, from “here to there” or the over time “from…to” one historical time to another.

Transmission: Communication and Communicability
The Fourth Annual Film and Media Studies Conference tackles sending and receiving—including past and future modes of dissemination, whether distributing, broadcasting, or streaming, or sneezing. What can film and media studies make of the strange analogy between diseases and messages in the time of a pandemic?

Genre and Other Repetitions with Difference
One-Day Student Symposium Various schedules events: Student panels: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm / 2:45 - 6:00 pm “A New Operational Aesthetic: Comparing Silent Film and Video Games”: 1:30 pm Keynote Speaker, Professor Manuel Garin Department de Comunicació Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona MA program in Film and Media studies, School of the Arts, Columbia University