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FLEFF collaborates to present Conversations Across Screen Cultures Interview with Dr. Roger Hallas on Tueday, October 13Contributed by Patricia Zimmermann on 10/08/20
Dr. Hallas is the author of Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness and the Queer Moving Image (Duke, 2009) and the co-editor of The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture (Wallflower/Columbia, 2007). With Prof. Tula Goenka of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, he codirects the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival. The October 13 event will focus on his recent and ongoing research on documentary and the visual arts, which includes his new edited collection, Documenting the Visual Arts (Routledge, 2020), and a book manuscript on photography and documentary film that he is currently completing for Oxford University Press. If you are coming to the Conversation, we encourage you to watch the following trailers for films which Dr. Hallas will be discussing. Inside Out (2013) First Monday in May (2016) Dr. Harry Gu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and Society, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will conduct the interview. The initiative is a collaboration between faculty from Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, the Cine con Cultura festival, and the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival. Sessions will feature open discussion and dialogue with students and faculty in attendance. The next two sessions are slated for October, and more sessions continue throughout the academic year. They run on Tuesdays from 6:30 -7: 30 p.m. October 27 Dr. Monika Mehta, Binghamton University (Cinemas of India and the Politics of Circulation), interviewed by Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College For more information and Zoom link, contact Dr. Leah Shafer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, shafer @hws.edu , or Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College, patty@ithaca.edu<mailto:patty@ithaca.edu> FLEFF: A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT
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Conversations Across Screen Cultures, a new online initiative featuring live interviews and discussions with film and media scholars, media artists, and programmers in the Central New York region, resumes on Tuesday October 13 at 6:30 pm with an interview that features a conversation about the research and publications of Dr. Roger Hallas, Associate Professor of English, Syracuse University.