Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Associate Professor and Chair of Cinematic Arts Paula Amad participated in the May 15, 2020 online symposium on “Affect” — organized by Associate Professor Jennifer Bean of University of Washington, Seattle and sponsored by their Simpson Center for the Humanities.  

The conference proceedings will be published in an upcoming Special Issue on Affect in the journal Feminist Media Histories for which Jennifer Bean is now the Editor. Other participants included Ann Cvetkovitch, Zhen Zhang, Sandra Soto, Maggie Hennefeld, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Kathy Woodward. The symposium was attended by over 200 participants from around the world.

Paula presented a talk titled “Affective Cin-aereality: Women and Aviation in Silent Cinema.”