September 30 & October 1, 2022
All conference events to take place at the Graduate Student Commons, located in Seabury Hall at 2122 Sheridan Road, Room 140, Evanston, IL 60201
September 30, Day 1
Doors open at 8:15, breakfast available
9:00-10:15am Panel 1: Simulating Presence
Barbora Dalia Hatalova (University of Southern California), “Screen Dating: Media Landscapes, Moving Images, and Romantic Relationships”
Golden M. Owens (Northwestern University), “‘It’s Like Having You There in Person’: Labor-Saving Technologies in U.S. Homes and Lived Spaces”
Paul Kim (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Recommending Race: Asian TikTok and the Saturation of Signification”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Nathan Rossi
10:30-12:00pm Panel 2: Memorial Irruptions
Elizabeth Winter (Northwestern University), “Losing Track of Time: On Narrative and Formal Temporal Rupture in Dee Rees’s Pariah”
Stephen Woo (Brown University), “The Impossible Object of Memoria (2021)”
Viki Conner (University of Illinois-Chicago), “Fever Dreams and the Future of Nostalgia: Liminal Performances and Affective Meaning-Making on TikTok”
Devin Glenn (University of Southern California), “The Saturated Psyche: WandaVision and Trauma”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Nicholas Davis
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:15-2:30pm Panel 3: Feeling Extra
Kylie Walters (Northwestern University), “Saturation, depletion: Aesthetics and the withheld in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”
Nicolas Rueda-Sabater (University of Chicago), “Affective Overflows of the Dam-Building Melodrama”
Shania Perera (Concordia University), “Portrayals of Women, Wealth and Excess in the Selected Films of Sofia Coppola”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Patrick Fiorilli
2:45-4:00pm Panel 4: Bodies of/and Water
Anne Dellinger (Georgetown University), “‘This is the story of a river’: Seeing Ecologically through Pare Lorentz’s The River”
Tinghao Zhou (University of California, Santa Barbara), “‘A Slow Motion Picture’: A Thought Experiment on Saturated Screens and Benthic Mediation”
Wesley Cornwell (Harvard University), “Blue; or, the queer geography of human limits”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Jacob Smith
4:15-5:15pm Keynote: Dr. Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois Chicago)
Happy Hour immediately following keynote
October 1, Day 2
Doors open at 8:15am, breakfast available
9:00-10:15am Panel 5: Reimaging Activism
Eleanor Rosemary Gratz (University of North Carolina at Wilmington), “Sneakers on Linoleum and Lighting Burns the Sky: Authorship, Ethnography, and Radical Cinema in RaMell Ross’ Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
Phoebe Marshall (University of Pittsburgh), “(No) More! Michèle Ray’s Camera Relays and Rejects the Derridean Worst in Loin du Việt-Nam”
Syeda Momina Masood (University of Pittsburgh), “The Cut-Piece as Excess: Exhibition and Spectatorship in Post-Zia Pakistan”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Michael Turcios
10:30-12:00pm Panel 6: Text, Paratext, Intertext
Brian Leahy (Northwestern University), “Les Levine’s Breaking News: Photography, Press Releases, and Art Media in the 1970s”
Diana Funez (Northwestern University), “Sign, Seal, and Deliverance: Intertitles as Paratext in D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Birth of a Nation and 1916 Intolerance”
Robin Calleja (Georgetown University), “Saturated in Myth: The Silence of the Lambs’ Buffalo Bill & Anti-Transgender Legislations Across the United States”
Stefanie Chae (Georgetown University), “Media Saturation and the U.S. Military: The Military’s Politically Propagandist Performance”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Kalisha Cornett
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch
1:15-2:30pm Panel 7: (All-)Consuming Identities
Basil Dababneh (University of Chicago), “Silly Saturation: Queerying the Intensities of Blackness in The Eric André Show”
Yilun (Elon) Li (Columbia University), “Eating as Medi(t)ation: Mukbang ASMR, Sensory Gluttony, and Extraction of Sonic-Haptic Unconscious”
Allison McClain Merrill (Independent scholar), “Nostalgia Saturation: Observing the Overwhelming Disney Channel Effect in Millennial Viewers”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Lynn Spigel
2:45-4:00pm Panel 8: Media Purgatories
Eduardo Bello (Northwestern University), “The Backrooms: non-places and digital horror narratives”
Cooper Long (University of Chicago), “‘You Are Not Going to Leave this Room:’ Control-Room Metaphors in ‘Golden Age’ Television Drama”
Allison Farrell (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), “Into the Virtual Labyrinth: Exploring the Winchester Mystery House as a Digital Ghost”
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Sconce
4:15-5:15pm Keynote: Dr. Cáel Keegan (Concordia University)
Happy Hour immediately following keynote
Backward Glances 