SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020 • WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER
3:00 – 3:45 pm Registration & Welcome • First Floor Lobby
4:00 – 5:30 pm Keynote Address • Room 208
Dr. James Leo Cahill (University of Toronto) • Animal/Accident/Archive: Three Copernican Explorations
5:30 – 7:00 pm Dinner Reception • Room 108
7:00 – 9:00 pm Film Screenings • First Floor Auditorium
Opening Remarks by Dr. James Leo Cahill & Dr. Aaron Gerow (Yale University)
Liquid Crystals (dir. Jean Painlevé, 1978)
The Seahorse (dir. Jean Painlevé, 1934)
The Love Life of the Octopus (dir. Jean Painlevé, 1967)
Acera, or the Witches’ Dance (dir. Jean Painlevé, 1972)
On the Road: A Document (dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1964)
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020 • WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER
9:00 – 10:00 am Breakfast • Second Floor Rotunda
10:00 – 11:30 am Bodies & Archives • Room 208
Julia Irwin (Berkeley) • A Template for the Ergonomic Imaginary
Arnav Adhikari (Brown) • Two Meetings and a Funeral and Archive of Absence
Eli Boonin-Vail (Pittsburgh) • Porter’s Execution of Czolgosz With Panorama of Auburn Prison
Respondent: Eugene Kwon (Yale) • PhD Candidate, Film & Media Studies and East Asian L & L
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Ontology • Room 208
Chaorong Hua (Yale) • Accidental Animals: On the Cinema of Contingency
Ahmet Yuce (Georgia State) • Derrida and Contingency in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Adam Hebert (Pittsburgh) • The Latham Loop, Long Takes, and Contingency
Respondent: Pierre Folliet (Yale) • PhD Candidate, Film & Media Studies and Comparative Literature
1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch • Room 108
2:00 – 3:30 pm Early Cinema & Theory • Room 208
Nace Zavrl (Harvard) • Kracauer, Contingency, Computation
Lin Shu-mei (Cornell) • Oral Cinema as Event
Madison Brown (Northwestern) • Double Exposures & Counterintuitive Forebears of Family Photography
Respondent: Carolyn Jacobs (Yale) • PhD Candidate, Film & Media Studies and American Studies
3:30 – 5:00 pm Authorship & Reception • Room 208
Andrea Liu (Goldsmiths WAL) • Rosa Menkman’s Contradictory Romanticization of Glitch Art
Shane Black (UCLA) • American Mercurial: Marvel’s Loki and the Latin Epic Messenger
Suryansu Guha (UCLA) • Accidental Convergences: Netflix
Respondent: Katie Kirkland (Yale) • PhD Candidate, Film & Media Studies and Comparative Literature
5:15 pm Closing Remarks • Room 208