11 A.M.–Noon

Home Movie Day: Personal Archives Lost and Found

In our digital age, we generate and share a tremendous volume of still and moving images. But how long will we have access to these proliferating, born-digital pictures of our intimate and social lives? This year's Humanities Day coincides with Home Movie Day, an international effort to preserve amateur films. What can analog personal archives, like mid-20th century home movies, teach us about how we create, and lose, cultural memory?

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Jacqueline Stewart's research explores the dynamics of race in American cinema, with a focus on histories of African American film representation, spectatorship, exhibition, authorship, and archiving. Stewart is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, and Director of Arts + Public Life and the South Side Home Movie Project at the University of Chicago.