Coms50th Wrap Up Celebration Open House

April 28, 2016 / / No Comments

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The Media History Research Centre will be on hand for the COMS50th anniversary wrap up. The weekend celebration is the concluding event of a year-long program that marked the Department of Communication Studies’ 50 years at Concordia University. We’ll be at the Open House!

Saturday, April 30, 2:00 – 4:00 pm: Department of Communication Studies Open House
Drop by for an open house in the Department of Communication Studies’ CJ Building.
Location: CJ Building, 7141 Sherbrooke W.
Cost: Free and open to the public

For details on the other wrap up weekend’s events, including a panel discussion and cocktail reception, visit: http://coms50th.concordia.ca/coms50-events/wrap-up-celebration/.

RESCHEDULED The Special Effects Business Is An Oxymoron: An Historical Perspective

November 12, 2015 / / No Comments

FURY ROAD

Who makes the visual effects for contemporary blockbusters?

Employing analyses of industry discourse and global media structures, this talk reveals the historical traces of the smooth corporate rhetoric of “convergence,” “cooperation” and “synergy” that has led to a destabilization in the aesthetic, technology, and labor of these big-budget films.

Friday, November 20 | 1 PM
CJ 1.114  | Communication & Journalism Building
Loyola Campus, Concordia University,  7141 rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Julie Turnock is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Art and Technology in 1970s US Filmmaking (Columbia UP) and has published research on the history of special effects and on digital cinema.

Can’t make it? Follow us at @MHRCCONCORDIA and follow the #MHRCTALKS hashtag as we live tweet the event.

MHRC asks, what is a Media Lab?

November 3, 2015 / / No Comments

A conversation with Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson, and Darren Wershler

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Where did media labs come from and why do they occupy such an important role in contemporary discourse? What are practices and places in which media theory is produced? In the context of the humanities, why “lab,” and what sorts of claims follow from the use of this term? What are the “other places” of pedagogy in the era of networked digital media? How are media labs part of the specific institutional situation of the corporate university?
Join Jussi Parikka, Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler for a conversation on these questions, in the context of their new research project, THE LAB BOOK: SITUATED PRACTICES IN MEDIA STUDIES.

WHAT IS A MEDIA LAB? A CONVERSATION
Thursday, November 5 | 4:15-6 PM
CJ 1.114 | Communication and Journalism Building
Loyola Campus, Concordia University,
7141 rue Sherbrooke Ouest

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