Monday, March 30, 5pm

Franke Institute for the Humanities, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637

What happens when an ancient language meets modern technology? This talk draws on Ido Ramati’s recently published book Lingua ex Machina (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) to explore how modern Hebrew emerged alongside the media technologies that carried it. From early sound recordings and typewriters to telegraphic code, Hebrew was not merely transmitted through modern media—it was reshaped by them. These technologies standardized pronunciation, reorganized script, disciplined writing practices, and helped redefine what counted as “living” language.

By revisiting the revitalization of Hebrew through a technological lens, the lecture offers a new way of thinking about language and modernity: not as separate spheres, but as deeply intertwined processes in which machines participate in cultural and linguistic renewal.

If you cannot attend in person, you may watch the talk on Zoom. Register here.

Ido Ramati is a lecturer (US assistant professor) at the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the relations between media technologies and culture. He concentrates on the role technical apparatuses play in shaping the conditions for a range of social phenomena in traditional media as well as contemporary digital culture. Combining cultural critique with historical and theoretical analysis, he explores how language and media inform ideological, political, economic and cultural processes such as the construction of linguistic and national identity.

Presented by the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies with funding from the Sarah (Bunny) and Leo Horvitz Memorial Lectureship Fund.

https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2023/12/02/male-and-female

Screening date: December 2, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Dear Friend of the Telluride Film Festival,

We are looking for Production Apprentices for the 2022 Festival and will accept applications until all positions are filled.  The application is now open and we need hard workers who are eager to work for the Telluride Film Festival! If you know anyone who is interested, please encourage them to apply quickly.

This request may be completely out of order, but as a life-member of the association... I am trying my luck.

I am currently trying raise money for what will no doubt be my last personal film, via the on-line method of "crowd-funding"and the website "Kickstarter.com".

Is there any way in which the relevant link...

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could be posted to the members?

Noël Burch

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Organized by the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film of the University of British Columbia, together with the University of Ghent and the Film Fest Ghent this is a free online conference. 

The program is attached, as are notes on the keynote speakers, and panel abstracts. More information on the website: http://www.censorship-symposium.org/

If you are interested, please email ernest.mathijs@ubc.ca and we will pass on the link and invitation.

Best, Ernest Mathijs, Daniel Biltereyst and Alexander De Man

https://bampfa.org/event/autobiography-princess

An Investigative Cinema – Politics and Modernization in Italian, French, and American Film

Please join us on Thursday December 6, 2018 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Columbia’s Heyman Center for the Humanities. On this occasion, Fabrizio Cilento (Messiah College) will present his book, published by Palgrave Macmillan in fall 2018 and titled An Investigative Cinema: Politics and Modernization in Italian, French, and American Film. Elizabeth Leake (Columbia, Italian), Giancarlo Lombardi (CUNY, Comparative Lit.), and Richard Peña (Columbia, Film and Media) will act as respondents. A wine and cheese reception will close the event.

Free and open to the public.

Organizer: Massimiliano Delfino - m.delfino@columbia.edu

Location: Heyman Center Common Room

For more information: http://heymancenter.org/events/an-investigative-cinema-politics-and-modernization-in-italian-french-and-am/

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/entertainment/8708966-181/documentary-filmmaker-frederick-wiseman-to?sba=AAS

The Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 62^nd Annual Meeting on October 26-29, 2017, at the Denver Marriott City Center Hotel, co-hosted by the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Colorado College. In conjunction with the SEM Annual Meeting, Colorado College and the SEM Indigenous Music Section will present a pre-conference symposium, “Sound Alliances: A Celebration of Indigenous Musics and Cultures,” on October 25 in Colorado Springs.

Visit www.ethnomusicology.org and select “Conferences” for more information about the Annual Meeting, online registration, and hotel accommodations.

Friday, April 7 at 7:00

The sole film of celebrated Indian dancer Uday Shankar (older brother of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar), Kalpana is a vibrant dance-drama that revolves around a young dancer’s dream of forming his own dance academy. Originally filmed in 1948, the film was restored in 2008 by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project in association with the family of Uday Shankar and the National Film Archives of India. The film features choreography designed specifically for the camera, fusing elements of Indian modernism with the cinema. This is the first time the restored version of this landmark film will be screened in California and provides a rare opportunity to view one of the classics of world cinema. Describing Shankar’s dancing to his daughter, James Joyce wrote: “He moves on the stage like a semi-divine being. Believe me, there are still some beautiful things left in this poor old world.” (1948, 155 min., in Hindi with English subtitles) General Admission: $20 (Tickets include parking)

Friday November 18  11 AM EST

Featuring projectionists and technicians from leading North American film institutions, this public panel examines the art of film projection, which brings 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm moving-image works to life for film lovers. Guest experts will examine best practices for film and projector handling, explore the tools of the trade, and advocate for the continued dissemination of these essential skills and knowledge for future generations. From the hands of the filmmakers to those of the archivists, conservators and projectionists, we celebrate the labour, passion, artistry and skill involved in providing audiences a seamless and pristine cinematic experience.

This event is supported by the Government of Canada and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Guest experts participating in this event are:

Andy Uhrich is the film archivist at the Indiana University Libraries’ Moving Image Archive. He has been projecting film since the 1990s and has worked with a variety of formats. Uhrich is assisting with the set-up of a new screening room in the Indiana University Libraries built around the projection of archival 16mm film. He is also working on a dissertation on the role of private film collectors in the development of archival practices for preserving and restoring motion pictures.

Katie Trainor is the Film Collections Manager at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester. Previously, she worked at the Harvard Film Archive and also as Director of Operations at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. Trainor served as General Manager of the IFC Center and has also maintained her trade as a motion picture projectionist at the Sundance Film Festival since 2001. She is a co-founder of the Center For Home Movies in Madison, Wisconsin, and is an active member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).

James King is a graduate of the Cinema Studies program at the University of Toronto. Drawn to the mechanics behind the ways we see and hear cinema, James became a cinema technician, getting his start as a projectionist at the Goethe Institut Toronto before going on to work for the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, the Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs, Inside Out, Images, and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (formerly the Middle East International Film Festival). He is currently Senior Booth Manager at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Attend in person: Tickets to this event are free and will be made available at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office (350 King Street West). Students or faculty looking to reserve tickets to this event can email hlf@tiff.net with their request. 

Watch the live stream: For those who are not able to attend in person, this event will be live streamed at tiff.net/reelheritage. 

 17th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium

Thursday, July 21 – Saturday, July 23, 2016

Proposals Due: April 19, 2016

            The rich amateur and non-theatrical moving image history of New England will be the focus of the 2016 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium. In commemoration of the Alamo Theatre’s 100 years of cinematic exhibition and Northeast Historic Film’s 30^th year as a regional moving image archive, we invite archivists, scholars and technical specialists to explore all aspects of the moving image history of New England. Proposals that utilize the NHF collections are particularly welcome.

Northeast Historic Film archives hold film and video, including local television news, amateur film, industrials, home movies, and many other genres, as well as paper documentation and ephemera, including postcards, lobby cards, camera and projector manuals.  The catalog may be searched by genre, place, subject, decade, and other search terms at http://oldfilm.org/collection/index.php 

The NHF Summer Symposium is a congenial multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of amateur and nontheatrical moving images.  For over a decade and a half, the Symposium has been bringing together an expanding group of archivists, scholars, technicians, and artists in an intimate setting for three days of viewing and discussing lesser-known, amateur, and found films. Presenters typically have 30-45 minutes in which to deliver their papers and engage in discussion. We do not run concurrent sessions, and participants are expected to attend all presentations and engage with colleagues in discussion of work presented over the two and a half days of the symposium.

NHF is located in Bucksport, a town of 5,000 on the coast of Maine (for more info on NHF, please visit: http://www.oldfilm.org. Please be advised that NHF is a non-profit organization. Unfortunately, we do not have resources to fund travel and lodging for conference presenters and participants. All presenters and participants must register for the symposium.

Please send a 250-500 word abstract outlining your paper idea and a brief cv via e-mail to: symposium@oldfilm.org. The Summer Symposium Program Committee are: Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona; Audrey Amidon, National Archives and Records Administration; Dino Everett, University of Southern California; Heidi Holmstrom, National Archives and Records Administration; Steve Norman, Belfast Public Library, and Devin Orgeron, North Carolina State University.  We are happy to discuss your presentation ideas with you in advance of a formal submission. The Symposium Program Committee will begin reviewing proposals on April 19, 2016 and will finalize the program by May 10, 2016.

We are pleased to announce that the Nottingham International Microfilm Festival (NIM) will take place October 15-20, 2015. This is the first UK event to focus on microfilm (short narrative formats) and includes a unique program of events, screenings, master classes and presentations by major industry and academic figures.

The festival brings together industry, government and scholars to identify opportunities for production/distribution, talent development, educational and research opportunities. The festival concludes with a summit on the microfilm phenomenon, with guests from the US, UK, China and beyond. Major names presenting include representatives from Dolby, RED Digital Cinema and UCLA.

You can find out more about the festival, participants, program and ticket information at www.nimfestival.com. The event is organized by the Nottingham Screen Partnership, a consortium of academia, industry and local government: www.nottinghamscreenpartnership.com.

For further information please contact Gianluca Sergi at gianluca.sergi@nottingham.ac.uk.