2025 Colloquium

November 14-15: Film and Philosophy

All sessions will be held in CAS 132 (725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston).

Friday, November 14

1:00-1:10

Welcome

1:10-2:30

Nicholas Whittaker (Philosophy, Wesleyan University), “Film-Philosophy and Sensuous Particulars”

Respondent: Rob Chodat (English, BU)

2:45-4:05

Junko Yamazaki (East Asian Studies, Princeton University), “Imagining Sexual(ized) Violence in Cinema”

Respondent: Samia Hesni (Philosophy, Dartmouth)

4:30-5:50

Francey Russell (Philosophy, Barnard College), “The Secret: Image, Sound, and the Unsaid in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt”

Respondent: Arianna Q. James (English and Cinema and Media Studies, BU)

Saturday, November 15

9:30-10:50

Eugenio di Stefano (Latin American Literature & Culture, University Nebraska), “’Give the People What They Want!’: Audience, Form, and Skepticism in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman”

Respondent: Ben Roth (Philosophy, Emerson College)

11:00-12:20

Matthew Strohl (Philosophy, University of Montana), “Grief, Horror, and The Shrouds“

Respondent: Tesla Cariani (Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Cinema and Media Studies; BU)

2:30-3:50

Daniel Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), “Film Noir and Cinema’s Actuarial Imagination”

Respondent: Kieran Setiya (Philosophy, MIT)

4:15-5:40

Jonathan Foltz (English, Cinema and Media Studies, BU), “Charlie in the House of Words”