Year: 2025
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“Desire Lines” with Jules Rosskam
Presented by the Film and Digital Media Department. Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025Time: 7:00pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) Watch the trailer at https://www.desirelinesfilm.com/ DESCRIPTION: Desire Lines is a hybrid documentary blending candid interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality. The…
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Warren Sack: Interrogative Design
A timely collection that shows how design can animate public space and catalyze democratic processes through vital discussion and public engagement. “Design thinking” emphasizes the production of solutions after a period of research. By contrast, interrogative design focuses on activating the public sphere and enriching public discourse through the production of questions. A notable contribution to the fields…
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Rethinking Socialist Environmental Media Speaker Series: Soyoung Kim
Join us for a talk “Liquid Hauntology: Revisiting Exile Trilogy through the Collective You and Me (Ты и Я)” with Prof. Soyoung Kim (Filmmaker/artist, Professor of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts) Date: Thursday, February 6Time: 3:30pm-5:30pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 139 Organized by: Yiman Wang (Professor, Film and Digital Media), Boreth Ly (Associate Professor,…
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Yiman Wang: To Be An Actress
Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinized due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert…