Inaugural lectures celebrate Arts and Humanities faculty who have been promoted to the rank of professor. We are particularly excited to relaunch the lecture series after an extensive pandemic-related pause. All lectures are held in the Faculty Club from 4-6 p.m. and are preceded by a reception and followed by Q&A and discussion. All lectures are free and open to the public and will also be live-streamed.
Register for the A&H Inaugural Lecture on March 23 (In-person or live-streamed via Zoom)
A Conversation around Process, Methodology, and What Lies Ahead
This conversation traces the origins of Ryan and Dana’s new book projects, beginning with a discussion around their “promotion books” which both came out in 2019 (The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination/Friedman and Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television: Gomorrah and Beyond/Renga), and continuing with a dialogue around their trajectories as researchers working in film and media studies, focusing on how their methodologies have developed over time. In that they find themselves at similar stages in their new books they will also discuss the process of conceptualizing a new project after promotion, having first published shorter pieces on the same topic. Ryan’s new book project is a study of African American specialty numbers in 1940s Hollywood musicals and race movies, while Dana’s new book #CastingStardom in Contemporary Italian Television is a large scale study of casting practices in contemporary, popular Italian television that has found significant audiences outside of Italy.
The Arts and Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series is sponsored by The Humanities Collaboratory and The College of Arts and Sciences.
