conference schedule
Friday, September 14
| 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m | Registration (Conference Lounge) |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. | Welcome (Dogwood Room) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Session 1: Hollywood Shorts and Newsreels (Dogwood Room) Shayne Pepper, Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, North Carolina State University, "Transitions in Sound and Censorship: Shirley Temple and the Baby Burlesks" Sara Sullivan, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa: "'Just One More Time, Leadbelly': Filmic Constructions of Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter" Jim Naremore, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University: "Between Street Photography and Film Noir: Kubrick's 'Day of the Fight'" |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Refreshments (Conference Lounge) |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Keynote Lecture (Dogwood Room) Haidee Wasson, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University: "The Long Arm of the Short Film: Movies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" |
| 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. | Opening Reception (Neal Marshall Center, Bridgewater) |
| 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. | Screening 1: Historical Erotica from the Kinsey Institute (Fine Arts Auditorium 015) |
Saturday, September 15
| 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon | Registration (Conference Lounge) |
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (Conference Lounge) |
| 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Session 2: Institutional Uses of Shorts (Dogwood Room) Scott Curtis Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University: "Images of Efficiency: The Films of Frank B. Gilbreth" Jennifer Horne, Department of Media Studies, The Catholic University of America: "Wee the People: Civics Lessons, the Young Citizen, and The Conquest Program" Sara F. Hall, Germanic Studies and Moving Image Arts,University of Illinois at Chicago, "Producing Law and Order on the Street and Screen: The Short Weimar Police Film" |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Refreshments (Conference Lounge) |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Keynote Lecture (Dogwood Room) Tom Gunning, Art History and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago: "Minutes to go... Compressing or Ignoring Time in Short Films" |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Session 3: The Archive: Institutional and Personal (Dogwood Room) Gregory Waller, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University: "Universities as Film Distributors: Indiana University, 1921-1945" Jeff Martin, Archival Moving Image Consulting, Chicago: "'To Men of Earth': The UFO Films of Daniel Fry" |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Screening 2: Hollywood in Brief: Short Films from the David S. Bradley Collection (Whittenberger Auditorium; box lunches available) |
| 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Session 4: Archival Workshop (Dogwood Room) Moderator: Michael T. Martin Mary Huelsbeck, representing the Black Film Center/Archive Rachael Stoeltje, representing the Lilly Library Liana Zhou, representing the Kinsey Institute Archive |
| 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Session 5: Graduate Students' Forum (Persimmon Room) TBA |
| 8:00 p.m. | Screening 3: Making the World a Better Place One 16mm Reel at a Time: Vintage Films from IU's Instructional Film Collection (Buskirk Chumley Theater) |
Sunday, Spetember 16
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (Conference Lounge) |
| 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Session 6: Women In and Out of the Avant-Garde (Dogwood Room) Moderator: Joshua Malitsky Andrea Kelley, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University: "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: Dorothy Dandridge and the Signifying Soundie" Michael Booth, Radio, Television, and Film, Northwestern University: "Maya Deren's Abandoned Haitian Film: An Imaginary Reading" Shira Segal, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University: "The Avant-Garde Childbirth Film-Window Water Baby Moving and Kirsa Nicholina" Genevieve Yue, Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California: "Lost at Sea: Intermedial Encounters in the Films of Janie Geiser" |
| 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Refreshments (Conference Lounge) |
| 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 noon | Session 7: The State (Dogwood Room) Moderator: Yeidy Rivero Douglas Cunningham, Department of Film Studies, University of California-Berkeley: "External Influences: The US Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit and Shifting Masculinities, 1942-45" Darlene Sadlier, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University: "South of the Border with Disney: The 'Making Of' Documentary for Saludos Amigos" Joshua Malitsky, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University: "Non-Fiction Film and Nation-State Building in Yugoslavia from 1944-1962" |
| 12:15 noon | Conference Adjournment |