THE FUTURE OF MEDIA STUDIES: A CONFERENCE Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 13-14 1995 Killian Hall, 14W-111, 160 Memorial Drive As filmmaking enters its second century, the study of film faces many challenges on many fronts. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is bringing together some of the leading thinkers about film, television, and media for a far-reaching discussion of the current state and potential direction of Media Studies as an academic discipline. Participants will consider such topics as the impact of television and popular culture studies on the academy, problems arising from the institutionalization of film and media studies, the inter-fertilization of media studies, ethnography and other social sciences, and ways for media studies to meet the challenges of new media. This conference will provide an opportunity for significant discussion on a national level of the future of media studies in the academy. Attendance at this conference is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Stephen Brophy, [log in to unmask], or 617-253-2873. Look us up at http://web.mit.edu/course/21/21-fms/conference/schedule.html. Schedule FRIDAY - 13 OCTOBER 9:30-10 Welcome from MIT Administration 10-10:30 Opening Remarks Henry Jenkins, MIT - Scapes, Webs, and Nets: The Future of Media Studies 10:30-12:30 Institution of Cinema Studies Gerald Peary, Suffolk University - moderator/respondent Leo Braudy, University of Southern California - Humanism and Its Discontents: Film and the Revision of Literary Studies Robert Sklar, New York University - Rules of Formation: Cinema Studies as Historical Event Janet Staiger , University of Texas, Austin - Should Cinema Studies Be Institutionalized? 2-4 New Directions in Cinema Studies Edward Baron Turk, MIT - moderator/respondent Rick Altman, University of Iowa - The Curse of Interdisciplinarity Noel Carroll, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Forget the Medium Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois - Does Cinema Studies Have a Future? 4-6 Television and Popular Culture Jane Shattuc, Emerson - moderator/respondent Robert Allen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Mid-Life Crisis of Cinema Studies Lynn Spigel, University of Southern California - High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art David Thorburn, MIT - Network Prime Time: A Short History 6-7 Reception 8-10 Silent Science Fiction Film: Past and Future Styles of Musical Accompaniment: Sequences from Metropolis, Aelita, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Voyage to the Moon, accompanied by faculty and students of MIT - presented by Martin Marks, MIT SATURDAY - 14 OCTOBER 9:30-11:30 New Media and New Directions Amy Bruckman, MIT - moderator/respondent Janet Murray , MIT - Hamlet on the Holodeck: Towards an Aesthetic of Cyberspace Vivian Sobchack, University of California, Los Angeles - Mighty MorphinU Media Studies, or the Challenge of the Electronic Robert Metcalfe, Infoworld - Six Converging Conceptions of the Information Superhighway 1-3 Ethnography and Media Studies Tom Cushman, Wellesley - moderator/respondent Michael Fischer, MIT - TBA Martin Roberts, MIT - Transnational Geographic: Perspectives on World Cinema Ellen Seiter, Indiana University - Unwritten Ethnography and Other Ghosts of Media Research 3-5 National, International, Transnational Media Shoggy Waryn, MIT - moderator/respondent Hamid Naficy, Rice University - Minor(ity) Television Robert Stam, New York University - Towards the Multi- culturalization of Media Studies Majid Tehranian, University of Hawaii - Global Communication and Its Discontents: A Political Economy Perspective 5-6 Open Discussion 8-10 Demonstrations of Interactive Technologies developed at MIT - moderated by Peter Donaldson, MIT For more information, contact Stephen Brophy or Chris Pomiecko at 617-253-2873, or send e-mail to [log in to unmask] ------- End of Forwarded Message ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]