[Commlist] Cinemas of Global Solidarity: A Virtual Symposium

The Department of Communication, Media and Film is thrilled to host 
“Cinemas of Global Solidarity”, a two-day virtual symposium with an 
outstanding list of international speakers.

This symposium will explore the entwined legacies of anti-capitalist and 
anti-imperialist internationalism in the cinema with a view toward 
contemporary forms of politicized moving image culture. Presentations 
will focus on how film, in both its aesthetic strategies and broader 
circuits of distribution and exhibition, has worked as an instrument of 
global coalition building, imagining alternatives to the uninhibited 
flows of market finance and the militarized borders of the nation state. 
In confronting the problem of solidarity in its diverse geopolitical, 
historical, and conceptual dimensions, the symposium brings together a 
group of scholars whose work spans from the Communist international 
solidarity documentaries of the 1920s and 1930s, to the third cinemas 
and counter-cinemas of the 1960s and 1970s, to more recent iterations of 
world cinema, decolonial cinema, and the militant image. We aim to 
respond to a growing impetus within film and media studies to reopen 
both the influential and overlooked film radicalisms of the past in 
order to better conceptualize the role of cinema within the ideological 
battle-lines of advanced capitalism.

Speakers include:

Rizvana Bradley (University of California, Berkeley)

Luca Caminati (Concordia University)

Matthew Croombs (University of Calgary)

Rosalind Galt (King’s College London)

Malini Guha (Carleton University)

Sarah Hamblin (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Pato Hebert (New York University)

Alexandra Juhasz (Brooklyn College)

John MacKay (Yale University)

Mariano Mestman (University of Buenos Aires)

Lakshmi Padmanabhan (Northwestern University)

Philip Rosen (Brown University)

Masha Salazkina (Concordia University)

Ling Zhang (Purchase College)

Please register at cinemasofglobalsolidarity.com to attend!


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