2024 CAM Research and Creative Activity Flash Talks

Main Content

Date: Thursday, April 18
Venue: Morris Library 
Time: 1 - 3:30PM
 
Transformations via Adaptation
Walter Metz - "Cultural History as a Flash in Time and Space" - School of Media Arts
Rolando Gonzalez - "The Case of Venice and Brooklyn, Illinois" -School of Architecture

Worldmaking for Social Activism
Ashleigh Spence, "Planned Parenthood Generation Action: A New RSO" - School of Journalism and Advertising
Finley Freibert, "The Politics of Pseudonyms in Pre-Stonewall Los Angeles Gay Media History" - School of Media Arts

International Forays
Heather O'Brien - Takahashi: 'like the delayed rays of a star: Reframing the gaze in Beirut, Lebanon - School of Media Arts •
Najj1r Abdul-Musawwir, "Continuing Building Bridges in the Diaspora" - School of Art and Design

 Generative" Technologies
Kavita Karan and Wellars Bakina - "Generative Artificial intelligence in Education" -School of Journalism ·---
Robert Spahr, "CRUFT: Defending Uncertainty Through Radical Juxtaposition" -School of Media Arts

"In-Between" and "Twoness" in Arts and Media 
Kesiena C. Obue - "From Cairo to A Christmas Carol" - School of Theater and Dance 
Leah Sutton, "Of Light and Shadow" - School of Media Arts

The Body in Pain.
Nancy Yu - "Glass Armor: An Endurance Performance exploring the intersection of personal and cultural myth with materiality" - School of Art & Design
John Reid Perklns•Buzo - "Raven, an animated film" - School of Media Arts 

 Arts and Media Challenges to Illusions of Neoliberal Progress
Jaime Leigh Gray - "Repealing Mary: A Performance Historiography of Ireland's Campaign for Abortion Rights" - School of Theater and Dance
Keving Mercer - "The Socio-Spatial Economies of Dark Souls, Death Stranding, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder" - School of Media Arts"

Installing Embodiment in Arts and Media
Jane Pivovarnik- "Bringing a Bear to Bear: Costume Design for Corduroy" - School of Theater and Dance
Kendra Keefer, "Oh, bµt if I had the Stars from the Darkest Night" - School of Media Arts

Post-Structural Hybridities: Arts and Media Activism
Cinzia Padovani - "Media and Communication Activism: Doing Ethnography with Ul r.a,Ii ht and '1;.'rogressive Social Movements" -School of Media Arts   •
Emily Klingensmith - "A Heroine Emerges: Phlloten and Her Pattern of Painful Adventures" - School of Theater and Dance

Reconstructing the challenge - Research and Praxes
Sarah Lewison - "Seed, Story, Shed: Praxes for Earth"• School of Media Arts
Hong Cheng - "The Handbook of International Advertising Research" - Dean, College of Arts and Media