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]
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