Conference Organizers

Conference Participants

Aneesh Aneesh
Imperial Neutrality: Rethinking Embeddedness in the Global Age

Gilberto M. Blasini
Itinerant Cinematic Narratives: Latin American Road Movies

Wendy Chun
Imagining Networks

Thomas Elsaesser
Cinema's New Ontologies: World-Making or World-Losing?

Anne Friedberg
The Metaverse vs. Google Earth, or Get a Life:
Second™ and First

Daoud Kuttab
The Role of New Media in Middle East Democratic Reform

Christopher Lane
Redemption or Extinction: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Destruction

Thomas Malaby
Making a World that Makes Itself: Art and New Institutions for a Digital Age

Mark Poster
Global Culture, Global Media

Mat Rappaport
States of Distraction: Media Art Strategies Within Public Conditions

 

Arijit Sen
Imagining Homeland in Diaspora: Geographic Imaginations among South Asian Immigrants

Manu Sobti
Political Machinations and Re-defined History in the Global Context - Examining the Case for an "Indigenous" India

Ramesh Srinivasan
Reconciling Transnational and Local: Possibilities for New Media

Carol Stabile
Pwning, Buffing, Grinding, and Creep Jacking: World-Building in "World of Warcraft"

Greg Steltenpohl
Business for Social Change

Sara Velas
International Panoramic Phenomena

Cristina Venegas
Hyphenated Film Production: Defining Region Across the "Latin" Americas

Amy Villarejo
Cities of Gods and Men:  Urban Megacities and Global Media

David Wilson
Of Dogs in Space and Steel Fleas: A Dozen Years in Collaboration with the Otherworld

 

Panel Moderators

Erica Bornstein
Moderator: Virtual Worlds

Dennis Lynch
Moderator: Rethinking, Re-imaging

Lisa Moline
Moderator: Media Strategies

Peter Paik
Moderator: Embedded Histories

Kristin Ruggiero
Moderator: On the Ground, Across Regions

Peter Sands
Moderator: New Media Possibilities

Tami M. Williams
Moderator: Making and Unmaking Worlds