Ithaca College

Conversations Across Screen Cultures, an online initiative featuring live interviews and discussions with film and media scholars, media artists, and programmers in the Central New York region, continues Tuesday November 17 at 6:30 p.m. with a conversation between Dr. Christine Goding-Doty, Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Dr. Ulises Mejias, Professor and Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Dr. Christine Goding-Doty is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Before joining HWS, she was an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities and the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christine received her PhD from the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. The main concern of her research is the concept of whiteness in the digital age which she explores from the intersection of critical philosophy of race, new media studies, and affect theory.

Dr. Ulises A. Mejias is Professor and Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York at Oswego. He researches critical data studies, philosophy and sociology of technology, and political economy of digital media.

He is author of Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (2013), and has published extensively in international journals and media outlets. He also serves on the board of Humanities New York. His most recent book is The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism (with Nick Couldry, 2019). More info at ulisesmejias.com.  

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. 

For the Zoom link, contact Dr. Leah Shafer, shafer@hws.edu or Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann, patty@ithaca.edu