[Air-L] Registration Open - First Forum Graduate Student Conference

[Dan Lark]

Hello everyone,

The organizing committee is excited to release the program, website, and
registration for the 2021 First Forum Graduate Student Conference, hosted
by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern
California. This year's theme is Post(ing) and we put together a great
program of panels and speakers that touch upon a variety of themes, media
forms, and methodologies. In order to avoid burnout and protect the health
and well-being of the USC community, First Forum 2021 is completely
virtual and its program has been spread out over 4 evenings on Oct 21, 22,
28, and 29. Check out the attached program schedule and our website for
more details <https://firstforumconference.org/>.

Our keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Bo Ruberg from Film and Media
Studies at the University of California, Irvine. It will take place on
Thursday, October 21 at 5pm Pacific. Please note that this keynote has a
separate registration on Zoom, which you can register for here:
https://usc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckdemgrDgrHNFVh1soJM7BdGpuEVzCDbsG

There will also be a faculty roundtable discussion between Dr. Ayesha Omer
(Postdoctoral Fellow at Univ of Pennsylvania), Dr. Camilla Fojas (School of
Social Transformation at Arizona State University), and Dr. Erin Y. Huang
(East Asian Studies & Comp Lit at Princeton). This conversation will be
moderated by PhD candidate Patricia Ciccone and will be held on Friday,
October 22 at 5:30pm Pacific.

You can register for the conference and see more details at
https://firstforumconference.org/. If you have any questions or concerns,
please email firstforumconference at gmail.com or contact Dan Lark (
rosend at usc.edu).

Best,
Dan Lark
Conference Chair

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Dan Lark
PhD Student | Annenberg Fellow
Division of Cinema & Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California