Bliss Lim (Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:30 PM "Queer Aswang Transmedia: Camp Temporality and Philippine Folklore" In recent years, the aswang – a supernatural creature of Philippine folklore that is often associated with female monstrosity and patriarchal misogyny – is...
The Media Fields Collective at UC Santa Barbara is excited to announce its fifth biennial conference exploring the intersections of media and space. We propose “encounters” as a framework through which these intricate relationships may be addressed. This term has been strategically deployed to think...
Oliver A. Ryder (Director of the Frozen Zoo project and Kleberg Chair at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The time in which we currently live has been described as the sixth great episode...