Photo: “KONELINE: Our Land Beautiful”, Director Nettie Wild, UBC alumni.
UBC Theatre and Film welcomes the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Conference Tuesday, June 4, 2019 to Thursday, June 6, 2019 at various locations at UBC, Point Grey campus and beyond as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, June 1-7, 2019.
The Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) is a non-profit scholarly organization, founded in 1977, which seeks to foster and advance the study of the history and art of film and related fields in Canada and abroad. Our members are made up of professors, students, professionals, and non-specialists who employ a vast array of methodologies in their research and explorations of cinema and media: historical, theoretical, philosophical, and aesthetic. Thinking seriously about cinema and related media means asking essential questions about culture, history, nationhood, identity, and technology.
Each year an internationally recognized film scholar is invited to FSAC’s annual conference to provide a keynote address at the Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture. This year’s Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Mary Ann Doane (Class of 1937, Professor of Film and Media, UC Berkeley).
This year’s conference events include a launch party celebrating the CJFS and members who have published a book in the past year; a screening, roundtable, reception, and director Q&A session with award-winning BC filmmaker Nettie Wild and her film KONELINE: Our Land Beautiful (free and open to the public); and a joint reception with the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) to celebrate the 60th anniversary of UBC’s Department of Theatre and Film.
Professor Christine Evans is organizing our events with these Cinema and Media Studies graduate students assisting: Jemma Dash and Zoë Sherman.
https://www.congress2019.ca/associations/242
