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The graduate student–organized conference, Crisis Alarm: Conversations Across Asian Cinema and Media, was held at the Simpson Center on Monday, March 16, bringing together scholars working across diverse regional contexts in Asian cinema and media. The one-day event featured a keynote address in the morning followed by a roundtable discussion in the afternoon. Across their…
Students in the Cinema and Media Studies gateway course, "Film: Analysis," had the opportunity to attend special screenings of films at the Beacon Cinema in Columbia City. Christian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills (on February 21st), Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (on March 1st), and Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies (on March 7th) were screened for students and…
Last week, CMS 470 was visited by Levi Bond, a CMS alumni, who shared his experience post-grad!Harper Ellison-Berg, a student in the class, writes:Levi Bond, a graduate of the University of Washington, returned to Warren Etheredge’s Advanced Screenwriting class on Wednesday, February 25th, giving students the opportunity to hear from someone actively involved in the film and television industry.…
Cinema and Media Studies hosted their Trivia Night for their Winter Quarter Social last month! The evening was well enjoyed, as undergraduates, graduates, friends, and faculty all came to connect, eat pizza, and compete. Professor Warren Etheredge hosted the event with good energy, and had exceptional help scorekeeping from students: Alexis Caplan, Mara Fell, Alex Ren, and Liberty White.Jess…
Students in Warren Etheredge's screenwriting classes had the opportunity to hear from Eric Heisserer, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2016 for Arrival. Heisserer is the creator, writer, and show-runner for the Shadow and Bones series on Netflix (2021-2023), and the screenwriter of Birdbox (2018). This was a wonderful opportunity for CMS majors and aspiring…
What brought you to want to teach at UW Seattle? I mean, I've been teaching for a long time. I've been friends with Sean Wong, Professor Wong, for a long time and made guest appearances in his classes over the years. He went on sabbatical one year, and he asked if I would cover his classes, and I did, and I think the very first class was right before COVID. And I loved the…
Professor Golden Owens has been awarded a Society of Scholars Research Fellowship by the Simpson Center for the Humanities for the academic year 2026-2027 in support of her book project, Digital Maids in Domestic Spaces: Virtual Assistants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Ghosts of Black Women's Labor.…
Professor Ahern co-edited an In-Focus section in the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, entitled "Images and Infra(Structures)" and co-wrote the introduction with Professor Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (University of Basel). Ahern's article, "Media Infrastructure and Historical Materialism" also appeared in the section alongside "Split Rein or Whip? On the…
The Walla Walla Movie Crush (themoviecrush.com), which Professor Warren Etheredge co-founded with his partner, Nancy Dragun (who works at the UW in CBE), was named one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by Moviemaker Magazine, alongside such stalwarts as SXSW, Telluride, Slamdance, and Clermont-Ferrand. This is particularly thrilling, as they are a smaller-scale festival, showing only…
Amal Eqeiq (PhD 2013), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and current Chair of Arabic Studies at Williams College, has published a new book, Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the Global South, due out this December from Fordham University Press.