Film History Now: A Conversation with Pardis Dabashi and Allyson Nadia Field

What does the practice of film history look like today? What different methods—from interdisciplinary inquiry to speculative historiography and public humanities projects—are scholars using to tell new stories about film culture? Please join us to discuss these and other questions with two highly accomplished scholars: Pardis Dabashi (Bryn Mawr College) and Allyson Nadia Field (University of Chicago). Dr. Dabashi will discuss her recently published monograph Losing the Plot: Form and Feeling in the Modern Novel, and Dr. Field will reflect on her co-curation of the 2023 Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts as well as preview her forthcoming book on the rediscovery and afterlives of the film Something Good—Negro Kiss (1898). There will be plenty of time for Q&A; please join us for a rare chance to talk with two leading scholars in the fields of film and literary studies. 

Support for this event is generously provided by the Film Curation & Public Humanities working group at the Obermann Center.