Ithaca College

Research Forum
Placing and Displacing Memories: Globalizing Visual and Sonic Histories

Monday, November 13, 2017
Clark Lounge, Campus Center,  Ithaca College
9:00 am–11:00 am

This international forum engages faculty from a range of disciplines across Ithaca College to address the question of what happens to site-specific memories and histories when mediated in the era of uneven globalization. As historical events, places, and nations are increasingly understood as embedded within wider networks of transnational and other global connections, this interactive, discussion-driven forum explores how visual and sonic media reflect as well as intervene in this transition. It explores a series of questions, case studies, and dialogues.

Faculty-led conversation and dialogue. Students are welcome to come and observe.

Convenors: Matt Holtmeier, Sueyoung Park Primiano, Andrew Utterson, Patricia Zimmermann (MASS)

To sign up, contact Patricia Zimmermann at patty@ithaca.edu

Research Forum Questions:

• How do visual, sonic, and coded strategies challenge our understanding of what is considered "local" or "global"

• What survives, and what is lost in translation, in attempts to communicate national memories, politics, and histories to global audiences through films, new media, television, video games, and other screen-based or sonic technologies?
   
• Do the transnational flows of images, individuals, and mediated memories form or disrupt imagined communities?
   
• What is the impact of global media cultures and industries on determining whose memories or stories are seen or heard?
   
• And, in reflecting on this forum’s emergent conversations, what themes, threads, debates, and unresolved questions emerge? What commonalities and differences exist? What are our next steps in continuing the dialogue?

The forum is sponsored by the Roy H. Park School of Communications, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) and the Interdisciplinary and International Research Consortium (FLEFF/CFE).  It is mounted as part of the Predoctoral Diversity Fellow program in the Roy H. Park School of Communications,. The first fellow in residence is Elizabeth Wijaya, Comparative Literature, Cornell University.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Patricia Zimmermann at patty@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3431. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.