Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College
8:00–8:45am – Breakfast
8:45–9:00am – Welcome
Chelsea Wessels (Colby College) and Beth Corzo-Duchardt (Muhlenberg College)
9:00–10:00am – Keynote Provocation
Patricia R. Zimmermann (Ithaca College)
10:30–12:00pm – Workshop
Production and Videographic Criticism in the Language Classroom, or Revolutionary Praxis
- Bridget Franco (College of the Holy Cross), Filmmaking in Spanish
- Nicolas Poppe (Middlebury College), Teaching with Videographic Criticism
- Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez (Amherst College), Incorporating a Video Essay Assignment into a Film Studies Course: Experiences and Lessons Learned
12:15–2:15pm – Lunch (+ possible museum visit)
2:15–3:45pm – Panel: Teaching Revolutions
Chair: Audrey Brunetaux (Colby College)
- Michael Mario Albrecht (Eckerd College), Teaching Politics in the Era of the Trump Revolution
- Suzanne Schulz (Bard High School Early College Queens), Teaching Revolutionary Cinemas of the 1960s and 1970s: Historical Specificity and Contemporary Relevance
- John Sullivan (Muhlenberg College), Revolutionizing the Concept of Media Literacy in an Age of Trump
4:00–5:30pm – Panel: Revolutionary Pedagogy
Chair: Katherine Groo (Lafayette College)
- Jacquelyn Ardam (Colby College), Feminist Pedagogies: Learning from Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen
- Katherine Groo (Lafayette College), Minor Cinemas, Minorating Practices
- Kimberly Hall (Wofford College), Teaching Television: Integrative Approaches to Revolutionary Thinking
- Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College), “Ways of Seeing” Capstone Course Concept
5:30–7:30pm – Dinner
Later
Optional gathering at Mainely Brews (no host)
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College
8:00–8:45am – Breakfast
8:45–10:15am – Workshop
Encounters with Otherness as Revolutionary Praxis
- Andrew Utterson (Ithaca College)Matthew Holtmeier (Ithaca College)
- William Brown (University of Roehampton)
- Matthew Holtmeier (Ithaca College)
- William Brown (University of Roehampton)
Respondent: Patricia R. Zimmermann (Ithaca College)
10:30–12:00pm – Panel: Cinema as Revolutionary Praxis
Chair: Alexandre Dauge-Roth (Bates College)
- Jonathan J. Cavallero (Bates College), Theory, Practice, and Purposeful Work: Exploring the Revolutionary Potential of Film Festival Studies
- Alexandre Dauge-Roth (Bates College), Filming with Rwandans: A Double-Lens Approach and Conversation on Documenting Women’s Agency in Post-Genocide Rwanda
- Elizabeth Eames (Bates College), Rough Cut/Global Maine: Documentary Production in Community
12:15–1:30pm – Lunch
1:30–3:00pm – Workshop
The Art of the Review: Evaluating Communication, Media and Film Studies Programs at SLACs or, Curricular/Program Revolutions
- Jennifer Gauthier (Randolph College)
- Martin Lang (Gustavus Adolphus College)
- Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College)
3:00–3:30pm – Coffee break
3:30–4:30pm- Closing Remarks and Discussion
Facilitated by Patricia R. Zimmermann (Ithaca College)
4:30–5:00pm – Discussion: The Future of MCFLAC
Led by Chelsea Wessels (Colby College) and Beth Corzo-Duchardt (Muhlenberg College)