UC Hosting International Media Conference In July
The International Association of Media History -- the major international scholarly organization dealing with history of the media, including film, radio, and television -- will hold its biennial conference in Cincinnati at the Marriott Kingsgate Conference Center this summer from July 20-23.
Co-sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and the American-Jewish Archives of Hebrew Union College, the conference has as its theme "Race and Ethnicity in the Media." Scholars from more than ten countries will participate.
Highlights of the conference include presentations by Jane Gaines (Duke University) on "The White in the Race Movie Audience;" Jack Shaheen on "Hollywood Images of Arabs and Muslims: Problems and Prospects;" David Culbert (Louisiana State University) on "Cincinnati as the Model for Boone City in The Best Years of Our Lives;" Angus MacQueen (London) on "The Art of Documentary Filmmaking for Television;" and Garth Jowett (University of Houston) on "Filmgoing in South Africa under Apartheid."
Among the topics to be discussed in the conference panels are Israeli cinema, Dutch television, colonial filmmaking in Africa, newsreels, anti-Semitism, pacifism, and immigration.
Among the major panels are the following:
- A presentation of the newly restored version of the film classic, Battleship Potemkin.
- A discussion of "Islamism and Blasphemy," with film clips from the documentary film Submission, which caused great controversy in the Netherlands and led to the assassination of the films director.
- A session devoted to cinematic treatments of the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
- Several sessions on race and ethnicity in Hollywood films
- Full screenings of new documentary films on minority groups in India, anti-Italianism in the American media, and commemorative events marking the 400th anniversary of French settlement in Canada.
For further details and information, contact Professor Tom Sakmyster of UC's history department at 513-556-2129 or tom.sakmyster@uc.edu.
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