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Northeast Historic Film 19th Annual Summer Symposium The Political / The Personal The Global and Local Function of Regional Media July 19-21, 2018 Register Online Now! Download this as a PDF    SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS Thursday, July 19th: Opening Reception and Special Presentations 6:00 pm – Alamo Lobby Social Mixer / Reception 6:30 pm –

Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium July 20-22, 2017 Bucksport, Maine, USA REGISTER NOW Regional Moving Image Collections and Archives in the 21st Century Twenty-first century regional moving image archives discover and collect increasingly diverse audiovisual artifacts. Join us for an international gathering featuring two days of screenings and discussions on the coast of Maine. Each

16th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium Wunderkino 5 Moving Images of War and Peace Thursday, July 23 through Saturday, July 25, 2015 Register for the 16th annual NHF Summer Symposium here. Wunderkino (“wonder-cinema”) are moving images that ignite our curiosity and engagement and help us to rethink questions of creativity, complexity, rarity and the multiple uses

15th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium Wunderkino 4 Visions of House and Home Thursday, July 24 through Saturday, July 26, 2014                     VIEW THE COMPLETE PROGRAM HERE Wunderkino (“wonder-cinema”) are moving images that ignite our curiosity and engagement and help us to rethink questions of creativity, complexity, rarity and

14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium Wunderkino 3 Visions of Travel and Mobility Thursday, July 25 through Saturday, July 27, 2013 (“Arizona Airstream” courtesy of Mark Neumann) VIEW THE COMPLETE PROGRAM HERE Wunderkino (“wonder-cinema”) are moving images that ignite our curiosity and engagement and help us to rethink questions of creativity, complexity, rarity and the

13th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium Wunderkino 2:  On the Varieties of Cinematic Experience “National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC” courtesy of Mark Neumann Thursday, July 26 – Saturday, July 28, 2012 Wunderkino (“wonder-cinema”) are moving images that ignite our curiosity and engagement, and help us to rethink questions of creativity, complexity, rarity

12th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium Das Wunderkino A Cinematic Cabinet of Curiosities Thursday, July 28, 2011 through Saturday, July 30, 2011 Die Wunderkammer (German for “the wonder-room” or “the miracle chamber”) was merely one incarnation of the phenomenon of the “cabinet of curiosities” that first appeared in Europe in the 16th century. The cabinet

Filmic Representations of Indigenous Peoples Eleventh Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium Thursday, July 22 – Saturday, July 24, 2010 Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public LibraryScholars, particularly during the last two decades, have sought to understand cultural representations of Indigenous peoples. In Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Culture, anthropologist Elizabeth Bird explains

Ways Of Watching 10th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium   July 24-25, 2009 The 2009 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium focused on an investigation of how, where and why we watch amateur and noncommercial films in both the past and the present. The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and