BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.4669.events_uoft_date.0@www.humanities.utoronto.ca CREATED:20260223T150744Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nSaturday, March 07, 2026 9:00 am \n I\nis College \n 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 \n\nDescription: \nThe Cinema Studies Graduate Student Union (CSGSU) is excited to share the post er and full schedule of Formations, the 2026 A\nual Cinema Studies Gradua te Student Conference. The conference will take place from March 6th-7th a t I\nis College, with our keynote speaker, the experimental filmmaker an d animator Prof. Jodie Mack of Dartmouth College.The conference events are free and open to all. But we would especially like to highlight that Prof . Mack's keynote address on March 6th, 4pm at I\nis Town Hall, will incl ude a program of experimental shorts presented with 3D diffraction glasses .On March 7th, at 2:15pm, we will also be hosting a capture session with Prof. Mack at University College (UC179). (Please note: attendees of this session are recommended to wear dark-colored clothing.)We would like to a cknowledge the gracious support of various University of Toronto sponsors\ , including the Cinema Studies Institute, the Jackman Humanities Institut e, the Department of East Asian Studies, the Department of Italian, Spa nish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, the Department of Philosophy\ , the Department of Art History, the Department of English, the Centre f or the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs & P ublic Policy, the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the Centre for Comparative Literature, the Centre for Eth ics, the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies, as well as the Dep artment of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.Even t ProgramMarch 62:00 - 4:00 pmRegistration I\nis College Lobby4:00 - 6:30 pmKeynote Address with Special 3D Diffraction Screening ProgramQ&A Moderat ors: Prof. James Cahill and Srijita BanerjeeFilms provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Amy Kravitz, Canyon Cinema, and Six Pac k Films I\nis Town Hall6:30 - 8:00 pmWelcome Reception I\nis College, Sec ond Floor Lounge March 79:00 - 9:30 amCoffee & Welcome I\nis College, Sec ond Floor Lounge9:30 - 11:00 amPanel 1a | IN222Queer FormalismModerated by Sam Reimer Avneet Sharma, University of Toronto, Forms of Tennis, Form s of Sex Pate Duncan, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “We Need to Break the Nose of Every Beautiful Thing”: Luca Guadagnino’s Roughened Form Ditt a Demeter, University of Cambridge, Truth as a Shimmering Mirage: Bisexu al Formation(s) Against Ideological Binaries in Anatomy of a Fall (2023)Pa nel 1b | IN312Grids, RulesModerated by Joshua Cabrita William Wells, Un iversity of Illinois, Chicago, Rules to Die By: Contemporary Horror and the Impossible Ruleset Leonardo Strano, University of Cambridge, Disfigu ring the grid: how digital cinema exposes modernist paradoxes of form-maki ng to challenge late capitalism’s imaging strategies Jen Racoosin, Indepe ndent Scholar, Mapping Totality in the Digital Age: Searching (2018) and  Missing (2023)11:15 am - 1:00 pmPanel 2a | IN222Approaching CensorshipMode rated by Janelle Rowsell B. Dalia Hatalova, University of Toronto, Goldd iggers from 1932 to 2025: A Transhistorical Approach to Censorship Researc h Stephen Istvan Dragos, King’s College London & University of Northampto n, Approaching the Unapproachable: The Material Artefacts of the 1980s Ro manian Commercial Film Poster Meidi Quan, City University of Hong Kong, The Resilient Formation of the “Minjian”: The Transformation and Paradox o f Publicness in China’s Post-Independent Film Festivals (Virtual Presentat ion) Hannah Fleisch, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Special Report: National Address, Archiv es, and Media Historiography (Virtual Presentation)Panel 2b | IN312Aesthe tic TheoriesModerated by Thomas Quist Josh Cabrita, University of Toronto , Deleuze and the Conditions of Successive Time in the Cinema Evyn Armstr ong, University of Southern California, The Face of Muppet: On the Perfo rmance of Puppets Winter Faddick, University of Toronto, The Mechanical Chimera: Animal Components in Walter Benjamin’s Writing and Motifs Nikole McGregor, University of Toronto, Virtual Sublimity: Aesthetic Formations at the Threshold of Perceptual Contradictions1:00 - 2:00 pmLunch I\nis Co llege, Second Floor Lounge2:15 - 4:00 pmCapture Session with Jodie Mack U niversity College, Room UC1794:15 - 5:30 pmPanel 3a | IN222City and Natio n Moderated by Aaisha Salman Zichen Liang, University of British Columbia , Where the World Breaks: Anta’s (No)Presence and Anti-Formation in A Tho usand Suns Yifei Sun, University of Cambridge, Temporal Ruptures and Que er Formations: Re-reading the Zishu Tradition in Intimates (1997) as City Allegory (Virtual Presentation) Melika Motevalli Poor, Université de Mont réal, Archiving Silence: Dislocated Geographies, Lost Women, and the In visible Beginnings of Iranian CinemaPanel 3b | IN312Computational ImagesMo derated by Alexandra Neufeldt Jung-Ah Kim, Queen’s University, Tactile A lgorithms: Weaving the Moving Image Andy Lee, University of Toronto, Bur ning the Forest to Kill the Fox: Six Days in Fallujah and the Politics of Military Simulation Yves Chang, Independent Scholar, On My Screen: Compu ter Vision & User Intimacies in Ninajirachi’s “Infohazard”6:00 - 9:00 pmCl osing Reception & After-Party Duke of York - 39 Prince Arthur Ave.  \n\nCo ntact Information: \n Cinema Studies Graduate Student Union (CSGSU) csgrad uatestudentunion@gmail.com \n\nSponsors \nCinema Studies Institute, Jackm an Humanities Institute, Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Italian Spanish Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Department of Philo sophy, Department of Art History, Department of English \nMap \n2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 \n\nCategories \n ConferenceDiscussion Pane lResearch Talk \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsGraduate StudentsUndergr aduate StudentsCommunityFaculty DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T090000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260223T150826Z LOCATION:2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 SUMMARY:Formations: 2026 Annual Graduate Student Conference URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/formations-2026-annu al-graduate-student-conference END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR