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Futurities: Film and Media Theory and Contemporary China
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Venue
- Columbia University – Dodge Hall
- 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
A one day conference on contemporary Chinese film and media featuring a Keynote address by Professor Xuguang Chen, Peking University.
Schedule
10:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Professor Jane Gaines, Columbia University
Keynote Speech
Professor Xuguang Chen, Peking University
“The Blue Book, Film Industry Aesthetics, and Imagination Consumption: An Analysis and Theoretical Interpretation of Recent Trends in Chinese Cinema Based on Three Keywords”
Break
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Panel 1
Prof. Xiaoxi Shi, Nankai University; Columbia University
“From New Terms to Key Concepts: The Spread of Knowledge and the Discursive Strategies of Chinese Film Theories”
Prof. Ling Zhang, State University of New York, Purchase College
“Modernization of Chinese Cinematic Language: 1980s Sonic Realism and Its Contemporary Resonance”
Q & A
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM – 3 PM Panel 2
Prof. Jing Yang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; Visiting Professor, Pratt Institute
“An Alternative Narrative of Science Fiction Cinema in China: Crazy Alien”
Yulong Hu, PhD student, Stony Brook University
“Creating A World of Glaciers: Virtual Reality Animation as the Core of an Artistic Transmedia Ecosystem”
Ailin Zhou, PhD student, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Familial (Unbe)Longing, Worldly (Be)Longing: Visual Politics of the Queer Chinese Diaspora”
Q & A
3 PM – 3:30 PM BREAK
3:30 PM – 5 PM Panel 3
Wentao Ma, PhD student, University of California, San Diego
“The Ecological Apora: Necropolitics & Planetary Becoming in The Ozone Layer Vanishes (1990)”
Yingda Wang, MA graduate, Columbia University
“Speculating ‘Vernacular’ in the Logistics of Production and Perception”
Mia (Chuyang) Jin, MA graduate, Columbia University
“We Were Smart (2019): Infrastructural Body, Affective Labor and the Potential of Smart Culture”
Q & A
5 PM – 6PM ROUNDTABLE
6 PM CLOSING REMARKS
6:30 PM RECEPTION
Causal Mediation Analysis Training
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July 29-31, 2024 | Livestream, virtual
The Causal Mediation Analysis Training is a three-day intensive boot camp of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions to provide an overview of concepts and data analysis methods used to investigate mediating mechanisms.
This three-day intensive course will cover some of the recent developments in causal mediation analysis and provide practical tools to implement these techniques and assess the mechanisms and pathways by which causal effects operate. Led by a team of experts in causal mediation techniques at Columbia University, this course will integrate lectures and discussion with hands-on computer lab sessions using R. The course will cover the relationship between traditional methods for mediation in environmental health, epidemiology, and the social sciences and new methods in causal inference using a wide variety of examples to illustrate the techniques and approaches. We will discuss 1) when the standard approaches to mediation analysis are valid for dichotomous, and continuous, outcomes, 2) alternative mediation analysis techniques when the standard approaches will not work, using ideas from causal inference and natural direct and indirect effects 3) the no-unmeasured confounding assumptions needed to identify these effects, and 4) how regression approaches for mediation analysis can be extended in the presence of multiple mediators.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand when traditional methods for mediation fail
- Articulate concepts about mediation under the counterfactual framework and assumptions for identification
- Formulate and apply regression approaches for mediation for single and multiple mediators
- Develop facility with the use of software for mediation and interpretation of software output
Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate.
Capacity is limited. Paid registration is required to attend.
Epigenetics Boot Camp
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Venue
- Allan Rosenfield Building
- 722 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
July 29-30, 2024 | Hybrid training
The Epigenetics Boot Camp is a two-day intensive boot camp of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions to provide an overview of concepts, techniques, and data analysis methods utilized in human epigenetics studies and focused on DNA methylation array.
This two-day intensive boot camp integrates the principle concepts of epigenetics and the effects of risk factors on the epigenome as we step through the key components of designing and executing DNA methylation studies. Led by a team of scientists with more than 50 years of combined expertise in the field of environmental epigenetics, this epigenetics training will integrate seminar lectures with hands-on computer sessions to put concepts into practice. Emphasis will be given to leveraging existing resources from ongoing studies and initiating new investigations. The afternoon lab sessions will provide an opportunity to work hands-on with real methylation data generated by the Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC (850k) BeadChip platform. Participants will learn and practice data handling, cleaning, and basic analysis of epigenome-wide DNA methylation data. This training will not cover WGBS or analyses from sequencing experiments in animal models.
By the end of the epigenetics training, participants will be familiar with the following topics:
- Principles of epigenetics
- Concept ideation and study design
- Sample collection and processing
- Laboratory methods and platforms for analysis
- Data handling and cleaning
- Analysis of 450K/EPIC data
- Study design advantages and pitfalls
- Emerging epigenetic topics and laboratory platforms
Investigators at all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate.
Capacity is limited. Paid registration is required to attend.