Allyson Nadia Field
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Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago; Director of the Film Studies Center; faculty affiliate of CSRPC & CSGS
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@yumcoconutmilk
I was there. Coyne (not Cohen). It happened. Many witnesses. Shame on a professor for treating a student in such a disgusting manner. (I mean, disgusting for anyone but especially egregious for a faculty member!)
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Destroying a library and signs calling for a ceasefire? Destroying a tent where kids make art? What is so threatening here?! Is it just the word “Palestine”? (which admin refuses to utter)
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Excited and deeply honored that my book on the history, rediscovery, and afterlives of “Something Good—Negro Kiss” has been selected for a NEH Public Scholars grant. Very moved that this project received public funding - I hope it will be of interest to a broad readership!
NEH awards $41.3 million in grants to support 280
#humanities
projects nationwide.
Includes funding for films, exhibitions, books, research, & education projects, & the first
#NEHgrant
awards in three new programs under the “American Tapestry” initiative.
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Ok, academic twitter, please share widely!
Department of Cinema & Media Studies at UChicago is searching in Black Cinema & Media:
EOE/Vet/Disability
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A fact. Not up for debate or nuance. There were 17 universities and colleges in Gaza and there are 0 now. Zero.
"Before October 7, 2023 there were seventeen functioning universities and colleges in Gaza. Now there are none." A beautiful essay by one of my favorite writers and thinkers,
@byeliseam
, in
@TheForumAAPF
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Incessant helicopters are another way of terrorizing peaceful protestors, Black and Brown neighborhoods. LA knows it. Chicago knows it.
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UCPD not letting legal observers enter quad. What are you hiding?! Shame!
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Proud to serve on the National Film Preservation Board which advises
@LibnOfCongress
on the annual selection of 25 film for the National Film Registry, under the leadership of Board Chair
@ProfJStewart
! This year's list is INSPIRED!
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Films for solidarity!
NOW SHOWING: Newsreel 14, Columbia Revolt (1968). The students—then and now—were committed to an end to American war, imperialism, and immiseration
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Really affirming to be validated on what I suspected my whole life: Arab lives don’t matter, aren't loved, and aren’t worth as much as whiter lives, and despite the effacing categories of the US Census, no we are not actually “white.”
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Making it Clear Where UChicago Stands – UChicago Faculty for Justice in Palestine
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So proud of the students of
@SJPatUChicago
and other campuses standing up for liberation and freedom for all!
To students everywhere who are using their voices and platforms to organize, protest, and stand up for an end to the ongoing genocide in Palestine: We see your strength, we are moved by your courage, and we stand in solidarity with each of you.
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The brilliant Shelley Stamp at the
@FemMediaHist
10th anniversary panel
@SCMStudies
2024!
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@DrFrankRoberts
Wait, people share syllabi before the first day of class? Like complete syllabi?!...
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Our students are so amazing!
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FWIW, I couldn’t recognize the UofC represented here. Total twilight zone. The UofC I know is comprised of the principled, thoughtful, and deeply committed students and colleagues of
@SJPatUChicago
and
@FJPUChicago
and all who stand with Palestine against scholasticide & genocide
At Convocation, Prof. John List and President Paul Alivisatos reflected upon the accomplishments of UChicago's Class of 2024—and looked to the future.
Read more:
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SCMS congratulates Jacqueline Stewart, the recipient of the 2024 DCAA. A special event honoring Dr. Stewart will take place at the SCMS 65th Annual Conference in Boston, MA, on March 15th.
For more information, please click the link below.
#SCMS24
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Today was beautiful. Solidarity in the face of taunting “USA!”-chanting and flag-waving bros. Commitment and spirit only bolstered.
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Hundreds walk out of U. of C. convocation protesting war in Gaza, one person arrested
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Honored and excited to join The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory -
@uchicago3ct
- collective at
@UChicago
as a fellow!
We’re thrilled to announce the addition of three new fellows to our collective: Allyson Nadia Field, Julian Go, and Daragh Grant. Learn more about the new 3CT fellows:
@allyson_nadia
@jgo34
@daraghjgrant
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Friday! Join us for this incredible film on the 60s, urban rebellion, and media / government efforts to address (squash) unrest. It’s bonkers and, of course, ever timely.
Join us tomorrow, February 2, 2024 at 7:00pm in Logan Center for the Arts Room 201 for a screening of Riotsville, U.S.A.
Learn more and register:
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Program is live! Excited to announce The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts 2023: 9-week film series and 2-day symposium
@filmstudiesctr
January-March 2023!
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Can't wait to welcome
@JulieDash
and 50+ other incredible Black women filmmakers to
@LoganUChicago
next week for the Symposium organized by
@sistersincine
and
@SoSiProjections
and
@filmstudiesctr
for the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts 2023!
Film fest showcasing Black women filmmakers returns after nearly 50 years | University of Chicago News
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Come work with us!!! It’s a fun and exciting place for cinephiles! Happy to answer questions etc!
Come work at the Film Studies Center! We're hiring a full-time Events and Program Coordinator. Very solid job, and you get to spend your time working with folks who all think deeply and critically about cinema/media. What more could you ask for?
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Chicago - don’t miss this! A lot of love went into this program ❤️
In 1976, a group of Black feminist artists organized the first-ever Black women’s film festival: the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts. 40 years later, a new generation of artists have revived the fest. See our 4-day series celebrating the legacy of Black feminist filmmaking.
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What in fresh hell is this f*ckery?...
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❤️❤️❤️
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SCMS member Julie Turnock, Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, Uni of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Turnock’s project is “Beyond King Kong: Special Effects in the Hollywood Studio Era, 1915-1965."
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Thank you
@Nina_Metz
for this piece! And for sharing the work of film and media scholars who are trying to untangle this country’s vexed - and undeniably racist - history.
A while back I interviewed a film scholar who said that at the turn of the 20th Century, so much of American pop culture was minstrelsy “to varying degrees of legibility” and it was pervasive in the earliest films
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So impressed with these students and their commitment to a just and peaceful world free from state-sanctioned oppression.
New statement from Columbia student protestors:
"We are frustrated by media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us…Our members have been misidentified by a politically motivated mob."
"We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry…"
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My childhood in a tweet. 😭🥰🤣
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Help Mahmoud and his Family Evacuate Gaza
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🙋🏻♀️
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Tonight! We kick off the film series component of the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, 2023!
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I know I’m a sap, but I’m living for this guy’s library posts. ❤️📚
To those who may not feel like they belong in the world…
You do. You do! YOU DO. You belong!
This librarian sees you, this librarian is so proud of you for taking it day by day.
I see you, I’m rooting for you. I’m so happy you’re here in this world 💚 🌎
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Always love working with
@CaraCaddoo
! Thanks for including me in your exciting detective process!
The earliest known footage produced by a Black film company has been discovered in our collection -- The Trooper of Troop K, released by the Lincoln Motion Picture Company in 1916. Read about it on the Now See Hear! blog,
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Or you stay and it messes with your head… and your kids… and you are gaslit and told you’re sensitive, delusional, and the actual problem.
My baba always tells me about being a graduate student in the United States during the 1967 war & how he realized he could & would never live in the United States. This is that moment for us. We cannot live in a country that hates us & is responsible for a genocide in Palestine
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So hard to watch such a peaceful, beautiful place of principle and community being brutalized.
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A great year for
@UChicagoHum
!
Congratulations to Humanities scholars Allyson Nadia Field (Cinema and Media Studies), Judith Zeitlin (East Asian Languages & Civilizations), & Steven Rings (Music) for being awarded FY 23' NEH grants that will support their research, writing, translation, & publication projects.
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Tonight at 6pm! Join us for Conversations at the Edge!
Join us! For the Sojourner Truth truth Films Festival starting tonight at 6 PM!
Starting off the series with INTERIOR LIVES
Screening will be followed by a conversation with Aarin Burch, Zeinabu irene Davis, Jada-Amina, and Paige Taul.
🎟
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Last day of the challenge! Please support - help save lives amid this unfathomable crisis!
Here’s an update on the last day of our challenge:
In four days, we’ve raised just over 7K.
Incredible.
Mahmoud is feeling more hopeful than in a long time.
That leaves a little under 3K for today. Can we do it?
I’ve seen stranger things happen.
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100%. Being concrete and clear about the operations of white supremacism is one way to resist in scholarship.
Historians could be more specific talking about racism and racist violence (past and present), too. I initially used the softer language of "racial," thinking I had to. I stopped, and you can, too. This includes pushing back on editors who want to soften the language.
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Tonight! Seriously, don't miss this Chicago! Diary & Othello on 16mm! Eva's Man and Othello incredibly hard to see. COME OUT!
Thursday at 7:30, three films by Black women that adapt material from other media, including Julie Dash's "Diary of an African Nun," Anita Addison's "Eva's Man," and Liz White's "Othello."
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Proud to be a UvA alumna!
📍Amsterdam
As a full-on revolt develops in the streets of Amsterdam today, we are hearing reports that Palestine solidarity protesters have *fenced the cops in.* We ❤️🔥 a diversity of militant tactics! Sending solidarity to our Dutch comrades.
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LA friends. Don’t miss this!
This Sunday evening, LA Filmforum presents filmmaker Christopher Harris in person, premiering new work commissioned by Filmforum, funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation.
Tickets and info at:
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(Un)fashionably late to the party (couldn't remember my choices!), but here's my S&S list. Could have gone any number of ways, but I stand by it!
#SightAndSoundPoll
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Pls join me in supporting this effort! And share widely! ❤️
SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE!!
We are raising money for
@mahmud0o0
and his family to evacuate Gaza.
We’re at 17K. Can we reach 27K by Friday??
Only 100 $100 donations. Or 200 $50 ones, or 400 $25 ones.
Join us by posting and retweeting!
Tell a friend!!
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In awe of these students who are done putting up with what generations of us were conditioned to believe was just the way grad school is for women. We see you and we are so grateful for you!
“We don’t want to be taught by someone who has still not been held accountable for or made amends for their sexual misconduct. If you agree, please join us in walking out of this classroom”
today, for the second time, Harvard students walked out of John Comaroff’s classroom.
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Deep appreciation of
@ArionneNettles
for covering the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts 2023 with such care and thoughtfulness.
@LoganUChicago
@UChicagoHum
“What we wanted to emphasize with the programming is the real range of work and the impact and power of what these women were trying to do in telling Black women’s stories,” Professor
@allyson_nadia
says.
Read
@ArionneNettles
's piece here:
#BlackWomenLead
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Cover of _Losing the Plot_ (out in November; pre-order!). So many thanks to Daniel Morgan and Dora Zhang for such generous blurbs.
@UChicagoPress
@msatweet
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“All universities must divest!” ✊🏼❤️
This is hilarious and reveals what the ruling class is so afraid of: critical thinking and solidarity being shared across various campuses, across the false public/private education divide, across generations, across religions, even across national borders
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Co-curated with original film curator of the 1976 festival, Monica Freeman, Yvonne Welbon of
@sistersincine
, Mike Phillips of
@SoSiProjections
and Hayley O'Malley of
@UICinematicArts
.
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At U. of C. encampment, Jewish organizers explain significance of their anti-Zionist Shabbat service
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@sayanniething
@NoahIsenberg
@LoriMarso
@SCMStudies
@hah2117
@MarshaGGordon
@ErinHill2
Also: that writing for a general public isn’t about making your work “accessible” but rather responsive to the interests of a general reader.
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@MRogers097
I took a transformative grad seminar in grad school on The Sun Also Rises from Werner Sollors. Each week was a different approach - it made me really appreciate the possibilities of literary criticism.
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OPINION: UChicago arrested pro-Palestine student protestors to protect investments in death and displacement
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@chebhocine
@LKeath
Oh no! Is there some way to check on demolition plans and areas? I want to alert my family. This is horrifying.
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“We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything” with
@ChiReviewPress
out April 2024 ✨ Pre-order at
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Excited to be part of this digital exhibit with my Slavery and Visual Culture comrades. I wrote about the wonderful
@madeleine_sees
(who I hope won’t mind my interest in her incredible filmmaking!) ❤️
Had the honor of co-curating with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz this digital exhibit that explores continuities and ruptures between nineteenth-century visual idioms of enslavement and their afterlives in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Available here:
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Also: I'm chairing the search committee so happy to answer any questions!
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My brilliant and generous colleague! ❤️
Digital artist and Cinema and Media Studies scholar Marc Downie discusses his collaborative approach to art making, engaging with artificial intelligence, and how his work is a process of sharing and discovering. >>
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Chicago: come out for this!
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"For Palestinians, their actual is always subordinate to someone else's subjunctive."
Worth reading in entirety:
Palestinian Suffering Is Never As Urgent As The Counterfactual
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So excited for this! Congrats
@SoSiProjections
!
Available soon. Thank you to filmfront for printing these beauties, and to
@allyson_nadia
for writing the foreword.
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❤️❤️❤️
Through her filmmaking, writing, and nonprofit work,
@yvonnewelbon
documents the history of Black lesbians in Chicago, as well as Black women filmmakers at large. | ✍️
@snicolelane
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Excited to see two
@UChicagoHum
Cinema and Media studies colleagues on this list!
We are thrilled to be able to present the shortlists for the MSA Book Prize () and the MSA First Book Prize ()! Winners will be announced at the MSA conference in Portland at the JHUP reception on Thursday night (10/27) +
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Informative interview with a student protestor:
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@alixbeeston
@ucpress
@StefanSolomon7
@magshenny
@StampShelley
@isabelsegui
@karen_pearlman
@fuscowrites
I CAN'T WAIT!!!
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Visit for more info. Website will be continually updated so stay tuned for more details!
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This is wild:
These have undoubtedly been the wildest 72 hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff.
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@GadzooksB
Is it ok with you if I printed copies of your art for UChicago FJP members who were at the walkout? It's so beautiful!
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❤️
In 1962, we organized sit-ins to end racist policies at the University of Chicago. In '63, I was arrested protesting segregated schools. But we were right.
I’m proud to see students protesting the war in Gaza.
Stay peaceful and focused. You’re on the right side of history.
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@CaraCaddoo
lays out the significance of this hiding-in-plain-sight rediscovery! Thanks to
@librarycongress
for amplifying our research, especially
@mikemashon
for your commitment to our national cinema heritage, especially early African American filmmaking!
Here it is! The earliest surviving footage from a Black produced film in American history, released 106 years ago on October 16, 1916.
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Thanks to
@CaraCaddoo
for inviting me to share in her investigation and exciting discovery!
Piece of earliest known Black-produced film found hiding in plain sight
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Today is International Human Rights Day.
Gaza through her eyes:
A girl shivers in trauma after surviving an airstrike on her home by the Israeli occupation.
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Saturday!!! Screening | The Sojourner Truth Film Festival - MCA Chicago
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Share widely! Overflow room on Thurs; Fri wait list (so sign up!); plenty of space on Sat! STREAMING FRI-SAT!
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@gladysjordan85
@MoviesSilently
Yes! Thanks to the incredible restoration work of Dino Everett at USC!
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