Conversations Across Screen Cultures, a collaboration between screen studies and screen cultures faculty from Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, and the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival.
Conversations Across Screen Cultures returns with Dr. Rachel Schaff, Screen Studies, Ithaca College
By Patricia Zimmermann, September 18, 2021
New Fall Season!
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, launches for the 2021-2022 academic year on September 30 at 7:00pm in an interview that features Dr. Rachel Schaff, the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Screen Studies in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Dr. Leah Shafer, Associate Professor of Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will conduct the interview.
Dr. Schaff’s current research addresses questions of melodrama across various cinematic forms and national contexts in relationship to how Holocaust memorialization is institutionalized. Her scholarly essays have appeared in Cinema et Cie, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Spectator: The USC Journal of Film and Television, and Studies in Eastern European Cinema.
Dr. Schaff received her PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society and Moving Image Studies from the University of Minnesota. She also holds a MA in Film Studies from Columbia University and a BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was a Fulbright Institute of International Education Fellow to the Czech Republic in 2015-16. She was also the Margit Meissner Fellow for the Study of the Holocaust in the Czech Lands at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
The initiative is a collaboration between faculty from Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, and the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival. Sessions will feature open discussion and dialogue with students and faculty in attendance.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://hws.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlf-itrj4rHN0KP5VzcijFpIzFHr2ol6Mr
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The first three sessions are slated for September, October, and November and will continue throughout the academic year. The events begin at 7:00pm or 4:00pm (depending on date)
September 30 7:00pm Dr. Rachel Schaff (Ithaca College) interviewed by Dr. Leah Shafer (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
October 21 7:00pm To be confirmed
November 12 4:00pm Dr. Scott McDonald (Hamilton College) interviewed by Dr. Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College)
The initiative is a collaboration between faculty from Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, and the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival. Sessions will feature open discussion and dialogue with students and faculty in attendance.