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Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 337. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, November 13, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

Community Film Screening - SN + Q&A with Fred Camper

For four decades, critic and experimental filmmaker Fred Camper's most ambitious work, SN (1976-84), has been unviewable. Recently restored by the Chicago Film Society, and following its debut at this year's New York Film Festival, SN will be shown here at UW on a beautiful new 16mm print. Camper himself has described the film as "a portrait of the way humans occupy space," while other commentators, more poetically, have called it "a bittersweet twelve-tone song for the cinema" and "a vivid tapestry of society on the brink." Camper will be present at the screening to introduce the film, and to answer questions after the screening. About the artist: Fred Camper is a film critic, filmmaker, and fine artist who lives in Chicago, where he teaches film criticism and theory. Since the 1960s, his writing on the avant-garde has been influential in establishing a critical lexicon for abstract and experimental cinema. Between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s, Camper produced six films, five of which were restored by… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: 227. Accessibility Contact: tfsherm@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Special Events. Event sponsors: Art History, CMS, Simpson Center. Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.

First Book Manuscript Panel with Diana Flores Ruíz, "Borders, Surveillance, and Solidarity: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures Now"

In what ways might critical studies of media infrastructures expand our understanding of border regimes? How can analyses of the materialities, sites, practices, and labor of media infrastructures inform strategies of resistance to state surveillance? Join feminist media and science and technology scholars Lisa Parks (UCSB), Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (UCSC), and Diana Flores Ruíz (UW) for a panel discussion on the sociotechnical relations of borders, surveillance, and solidarity. Lisa Parks is a Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara, where she serves as Director of the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. She is a media scholar whose research focuses on satellite technologies and global media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; environmental media; and media, militarization and surveillance. Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Department of Cinema & Media Studies. Friday, November 20, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: Padelford B526/528. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, December 4, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.