CUNY Academic Commons

On Friday, May 13th, Jennifer Prince was awarded with a CUNY Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Leadership. Two students from each CUNY college are chosen to receive the award each year. The award was p […]

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Starting from Prof. Herzog’s point yesterday about the vulnerability of the peep show viewer’s body, I’d like to discuss that vulnerability in contrast to the anonymity of the viewer in a porn theater. Since both […]

Foucault argues that the difference between discourse and science is that in discourse a “proposition’s theoretical validity” is defined in relation to the work of the founders whereas with scientific theories its […]

Kracauer argues in “History and Fantasy” that the filmmaker may go to the “limit” (81) in portraying the peculiar modes of a certain historical era. The practical implications of historical cinema are interesting […]

Relocating Identities, Theories, and Languages
The keynote speakers for our 20th annual conference are Dr. Jonathan Rosa (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and Dr. Idelber Avelar (Tulane University).

Dr. […]