Ithaca College

Dr. Matthew Holtmeier (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Screen Studies) and Dr. Andrew Utterson (Assistant Professor, Screen Studies) recently presented papers on a panel they convened and chaired at the annual gathering of the Media, Communication, and Film Liberal Arts Consortium (MCFLAC), this year held at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. 

Addressing Colby College's year-long campus-wide interdisciplinary theme of "revolutions," their panel was titled "Encounters with Otherness as Revolutionary Praxis." It explored how theories and philosophies of alterity or otherness (rooted in the French l'altérité) might be used to mine the transformative potential of a liberal education. They placed specific emphasis on strategies for embracing heterogeneity and difference––from rhizomatic connections to dialectical tensions––in the teaching of film and media courses. 

Dr. Patricia Zimmermann (Professor, Screen Studies), keynote speaker at the conference, also served as formal respondent to the panel.