courtesy of Los Angeles
Public Library.
Program
Conference Opening
March 19th at 9.30:
Welcome addresses by Dr. Gunnar Sahlin,
National Librarian, and Dr. Kåre
Bremer, Vice-Chancellor, Stockholm
University.
Session 1: March 19th at 10.00
Kingsley Bolton, Stockholm University:
”The Great Debate: Media, Language
Change and American English”
Evelyn Ch’ien, University of Minnesota:
”The Revolution Will Be Televised”
Session 2: March 19th at 14.00
Pelle Snickars, National Library,
Stockholm: ”Archival Interfaces–Underground
and in the Cloud”
Lisa Parks, UC Santa Barbara: ”Goodbye
Rabbit Ears: Visualizing and Mapping
the U.S. Digital TV Transition”
Session 3: March 20th at 10.00
Gregory Lee, University of Lyon:
”Amérique, A-mei-li-ga and Métissage:
Looking for America in Martinique,
Gold Mountain, and the Cuban-
Chinese Restaurant”
Corrado Neri, University of Lyon:
”Sun Yu and the Early Americanization
of Chinese Cinema”
Session 4: March 20th at 14.00
Michael Renov, University of Southern
California: ”The Civil Rights Struggle
on the Screen”
Jan Olsson, Stockholm University:
”Italian Marionettes Meet Cinematic
Modernity (in New York City in
1909)”
As part of the program, Cinemateket, Svenska Filminstitutet will screen a recently discovered copy of Garson Kanin’s directorial debut, A Man to Remember (RKO, 1938) at 18.00 on March 19th. The copy comes from the Netherlands Film Museum, Amsterdam.
Hosted by: Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, English Department, Stockholm University, and The National Library of Sweden with gratefully acknowledged support from the Granholm Foundation and the U.S. Embassy, Stockholm.
Editor: Malena Janson
Source: Department of Cinema Studies
Updated: 02/06/08