Annenberg at SCMS 2025

Eleven Annenberg faculty, staff, and doctoral candidates will speak at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference, to be held April 3-6 in Chicago, Illinois. 

All Annenberg contributions to the conference are listed below:

Thursday, April 3, 2025

2:15 - 4:00 

Roundtable, "Saving Sonic Histories"

• Katie Rawson, "Labor and Collaboration in Podcast Archiving"

4:15 - 6:00

Intersections of Identity, Power, and Culture in Latin American and Latinx Narratives

• Arlene Fernández, “Bodega Time: Black and Caribbean Temporalities in the Digital City”

Roundtable, "Media, Science, and Technology at SCMS"

• Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, "STS as Boundary Object between Scholarly Societies”

Friday, April 4, 2025

9:00 - 10:45 

What is Feminism Anymore?

• Chair, Sarah Banet-Weiser, "Tradwives, Rage, and Feminism" 

11:00 - 12:45

Algorithm as Memory

• Yingchuan Qu, “Fishing for Poetry in the Digital Debris: Algorithmic Zombies and the Echoes of a Broken Language”

2:15 - 4:00

Roundtable, "Global Histories of Streaming Media: The View from India"

• Co-Chair, Aswin Punathambekar, “Emergencies and Defaults: Streaming and TV History”

4:15 - 6:00

Do you fear me, or am I acceptable?: Negotiating Media Visibility and the Racialised Celebrity

• Chair, Simron Gill “Campaigning on Fear: Centering Legacies of ISIS, the Specter of Shamima Begum and White Racialization in Britain”

6:15 - 8:00

Mediating the Politics of Victimhood

• Chair, Eszter Zimanyi, “Recursively Mediating Victimhood in Hungarian Anti-Migrant Propaganda”

Saturday, April 5, 2025

5:15 - 7:00 

Resisting Exclusions

• Zehra Husain, “Afterimages of the Gang War Era”
• Tejas Harad, “Paint the Town Blue: Use of Visual Art in Anti-Caste Movement"

Sunday, April 6, 2025

4:15 - 6:00

Embodying Traumas

• Valentina Proust, “Navigating Trauma and Memory through Historias de Golpe: The Role of Podcasts in Representing the Disappeared in Chile”

For the full program, visit SCMS.