Counterparts

October 7, 2019<October 7, 2019

Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium

by Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Sborgi discusses the recent University College London symposium on the essay film and the urban, concentrating on the form's potential to depict socially marginal positions as well as capital's embedding in the city.

August 28, 2018<August 29, 2018

1968 and Its Legacies Symposium, Or, The Historiohappening and Beyond

by Mark Broughton & Sophia Satchell-Baeza

Mark Broughton and Sophia Satchell-Baeza report from Kings College London on the "1968 and Its Legacies" symposium, reflecting on the history – and historiography – of the Long Sixties and tensions between activism and academia.

July 5, 2018<July 8, 2018

Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part Two: Miranda Pennell)

by Stephen Connolly & Matthew Gibson & Patrick Brian Smith

In the second part of our Visualizing Spatial Injustice Q&A, the symposium organizers spoke to the London-based artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell about her …

June 8, 2018<June 9, 2018

Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment

by Kate Lawrie Van de Ven

On March 14, the opening night of the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media studies – held this year in Toronto …

June 9, 2017<June 9, 2017

The Space Between: ‘Rethinking Canada 150: Networks and Nodes in Asian Canadian Visual Culture’

by Malini Guha

Malini Guha discusses a recent symposium on Asian Canadian identities and the spaces, nodes, and networks of diaspora.

January 17, 2017<January 17, 2017

Conference Report: Cities in Crisis

by Christopher Holliday

Christopher Holliday reports on the recent Cities in Crisis symposium held at King's College London.

September 8, 2016<January 17, 2017

Ethnographic Vignettes From ICA 2016

by Scott Rodgers

Large 21st century conferences, such as ICA 2016 in Fukuoka, evoke the impressive growth and diversification of academia within, between, and across disciplines. Yet their "poison", if you will, is that they are so very large and up-scaled: potentially alienating; and clearly struggling with logistical complexity.

December 5, 2015<January 17, 2017

Urban Affairs Association conference review

by Joshua Gleich

While media and urban studies have been increasingly entwined in recent years, their major disciplinary conferences, SCMS and UAA, have been less so. In this edition of Counterparts, Josh Gleich explores his experiences as a media scholar attending the Urban Affairs Association Conference.