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Altered States
The 2nd Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference
March 28-29, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
 
Description

In this conference we will address the issue of "altered states," which we understand to encompass questions of how visual media and visual culture can serve to represent and open up possibilities for expanded experience. What are the consequences of transgressing boundaries - political, social, technological, and mental? How can media, broadly understood, provide routes for subjects to break free of the ideologies that constrain their perception? What forces seek to constrain such expansion? What are the potential costs associated with altered states?

All events free and open to the public.

Information about visiting USC:
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Schedule
FRIDAY 03.28.2008
ALL FRIDAY EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN LUCAS 108
5:30 pm*
Opening Address:
Bronze Stars, Black Galaxies:
Race, Science Fiction and Neoliberalism
Curtis Marez
Associate Professor of Critical Studies and American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
7:00 pm*
Film program (discussion to follow):
Pop Secret: The Films of Michael Robinson
Michael Robinson (http://www.poisonberries.net/)

Screening list (full descriptions here):

you don't bring me flowers (2005, 8:00, 16mm)

The General Returns From One Place To Another (2006, 11:00, digital video)

And We All Shine On (2006, 7:00, 16mm)

Light Is Waiting (2007, 11:00, digital video)

All Through The Night (2007, 4:00, digital video)

Victory Over the Sun (2007, 12:30, digital video)
* N.B.: these times differ from those listed on the promotional postcard; these times are correct.

SATURDAY 03.29.2008
ALL PANELS AND LECTURES WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE LEAVEY LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
9:30 am
Breakfast Reception
Bogardus Courtyard
10:00 am
Expanding Cinema, Shifting Views
Stuart Davis and Melissa Geppert (Minnesota)
Cannibalizing the Favela: Multiple Screen Projection as Critique of "Global Political Art" in Dias and Riedweg's Funk Staden (2007)

Lydia Ianni (USC)
Recentering Mulvey's Gaze: Sexuality in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education as Altered State

Gloria Sutton (UCLA/Getty)
The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek's Movie-Drome

Moderated by Carlos Kase (PhD candidate, USC)
11:45 am
Transforming Ethnicity, Mobilizing Identity
Ken Provencher (USC)
Transformation without Assimilation: Identity and Culture Clash in Cinematic Japan

Mila Zuo (UCLA)
Yellow Fever: Fetishization, Colonization, Assimilation through Asian-Fetish Pornography

Josh Gleich (Emory)
The Heroic Quest of the Stoner: Transcending Ethnicity in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Moderated by Professor Kara Keeling (Critical Studies and American Studies & Ethnicity, USC)
1:15 pm
Lunch Reception
Bogardus Courtyard
2:45 pm
Altering Perception, Constructing Minds
Irene Small (Yale/Getty)
Time Is On My Side: On Hélio Oiticica's and Neville D'Almeida's Cosmococas

Tina Rivers (Columbia)
From Territory to Environment: The LSD-Inspired Socio-Architecture of Kyoshi Izumi

Moderated by Professor Michael Renov (Critical Studies, USC; Associate Dean, School of Cinematic Arts)
4:30 pm
Keynote Address:
Animation victims
Spyros Papapetros
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Princeton University
2007-2008 Getty Research Institute Fellow
6:00 pm
Closing Reception
Bogardus Courtyard