Schedule
Thursday, April 25
Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House, 2nd Floor
2:00-2:15pm Opening Remarks
2:15-3:30pm Inside UCSB
Jason Davids Scott (Arizona State University)
“Professor - An Origin Story in Three Parts” Or, how Wolfe, Walker and Penley shaped my life as a scholar, teacher, and human
Rahul Mukherjee (University of Pennsylvania) Epistemological Edges and the “and” between Film and Media
Julia Himberg (Arizona State University)
Leading by Example: How Mentorship Shapes Pedagogy, Research, and Leadership
Hannah Goodwin (Mount Holyoke College)
Historicising the Voices of Gods
Nicole Starosielski (UC Berkeley)
Genealogies
Michael Renov (University of Southern California)
Legacies: Of Knowledge and Friendship
Moderator: Ross Melnick (UC Santa Barbara)
3:45-4:45pm Culture Inside Out
Ethan Tussey (Georgia State University)
In-Between Media
Trinankur Banerjee (UC Santa Barbara)
Spatial Operations: Charles Wolfe, Popular Comedy, and Global South
Ryan Bowles Eagle (Cal State Dominguez Hills)
2020 (Re)Vision: Upending and Reimagining Human Rights Film Festivals
Moderator: Joshua Neves (Concordia University)
5:00-6:00pm
Janet Walker (UC Santa Barbara)
Remembering and Re-Imagining Payahuunadü (Land of the Flowing Water): A Design for Spatial Documentary Studies
Moderator: Nicole Starosielski (UC Berkeley)
Friday, April 26
Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House, 2nd Floor
10:00-11:15am Psychoanalysis, Documentary, Environment
Diane Waldman (University of Denver)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Trauma: Some Reflections on the Work of Janet Walker
Noah Shenker (Colgate University)
Beyond Binaries: Janet Walker’s Foundational Contributions to Understanding Representations of Trauma
Thomas Pringle (University of Southern California)
Spatial Documentary and the Horizon of Climate Aesthetics
Sage Gerson (Rhode Island School of Design)
Perspectives from within Earthly Interiorities: Reflecting on Janet Walker’s Career
Moderator: Bhaskar Sarkar (UC Santa Barbara)
11:30am-12:45pm Film, Histories, Historiography
Emily Carman (Chapman University)
Histories of Charles Wolfe: An Appreciation
John Sbardellati (University of Waterloo)
Forums for Democracy: An Appreciation of Charles Wolfe’s New Deal-Era Film History
Scott Ferguson (University of South Florida)
Omniscience: Care as Collective Knowing in Old Enough!
Colin Williamson (University of Oregon)
Placing Charles Wolfe: Memories and Futures
Moderator: Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California)
12:45-2:00pm Lunch: Hearts & Pearls
2:00-3:00pm
Camera Obscura: A Roundtable on Feminism, Editing, Collectivity, and Institution-Building
Constance Penley, Sarah Lerner, Kyna McClenaghan, Bishnupriya Ghosh, and the Camera Obscura Editorial Collective
Moderator: Jeff Scheible (King’s College London)
3:00-4:15pm Porn, Popular, Penley
Corey Creekmur (University of Iowa)
Penley Never Lets Go: Reflections on Teaching and Transference
Heather Hendershot (Northwestern University)
The Cabinet of Dr. Penley: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SpongeBob SquarePants
Greg Siegel (UC Santa Barbara)
Spacing Out with C/P
Jeffrey J. Douglas
The Impact of “Pornography Studies” on the Adult Industry
Lynn Comella (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Pornographic Provocations: A Tribute to the Trailblazing Career of Constance Penley
Moderator: Greg Siegel (UC Santa Barbara)
4:30-5:30pm The Screen Inside Out
Hye Jean Chung (Kyung Hee University)
Korean Cinema On Location
Daniel Reynolds (Emory University)
CF Jenkins’s Cinematic Platforms
Kathy Kasic (Cal State Sacramento)
Screening of Glacine
Moderator: Anna Everett (UC Santa Barbara)
5:30-6:00pm
The Closing Roundtable with UCSB faculty
6:15-7:30pm
Informal Dinner Reception in Pollock Theater Lobby
7:30-9:30pm
Party in the Soundstage area behind the Pollock Theater