Border Crossings Schedule
All events take place in the Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall, except for the film screenings, which are at the Pacific Film Archive.
Pre-conference event:
Friday, February 8, 2008 |
| 5:00 - 6:30 pm | The Berkeley Film Seminar presents "Rethinking American Silent Cinema," Scott Simmon (University of California, Davis) |
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| Saturday, February 9, 2008 |
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Opening remarks |
| 9:15 am - 11:00 am | Borders in Wartime
Priya Jaikumar (USC), Sheila Skaff (UT-El Paso), Paul Dobryden (UCB) |
| 11:15 am - 1:00 pm | Going Places: Colonial Modernity and the Transnational Horizon
Lauren Rabinovitz (U Iowa), Neepa Majumdar (U Pittsburgh), Manishita Dass (U Michigan), Michael Baskett (U Kansas) |
| 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Lunch (provided) |
| 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Nitrate Dreams: Film Material and its Afterlife
Kaveh Askari (Western Washington U.), Laura Isabel Serna (Rice), Josh Yumibe (Oakland U.), Daisuke Miyao (U Oregon) |
| 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm | Keynote address: "'Movie-Land' and the Cosmopolitan Imagination,"
Jennifer Bean (U Washington)
Author of The Play in the Machine: Gender, Genre, and the Cinema of Modernity (forthcoming Duke UP) |
| 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | The Cheat (1915) at the Pacific Film Archive
Introduced by Daisuke Miyao (U Oregon) and accompanied by
Judith Rosenberg. Admission $5.50 - $9.50.
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| Sunday, February 10, 2008 |
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00 am - 10:45 am | Letters of Transit: Film as Racial and Cultural Envoy
Allyson Nadia Field (Harvard), Arne Lunde (UCLA), Yiman Wang (UCSC) |
| 11:00 am - 12:45 pm | Sex and Gender Crossings
Shelley Stamp (UCSC), Laura Horak (UCB), Anupama Kapse (UCB), Leigh Goldstein (UT-Austin) |
| 12:45 pm - 1:00 pm | Closing remarks |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Forbidden Paths (1917) & The Devil's Claim (1920) at the Pacific Film Archive
Introduced by Daisuke Miyao (U Oregon) and
accompanied by Judith Rosenberg. Admission $5.50 - $9.50 |
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