In July 2025, Northwestern’s Rhetoric, Media, and Publics PhD program hosted its seventh Media Aesthetics Summer Institute, a weeklong gathering of graduate students and visiting scholars organized around the theme “Excluded Media.” Convened by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Academic Curator of Cinema and Media Arts at The Block Museum, and Dilip Gaonkar, Professor of Rhetoric, Media, […]
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The Block welcomes Madison Brown, a doctoral student in the Department of Screen Cultures, as the museum’s 2023-2024 graduate interdisciplinary fellow. Madison Brown’s research explores the politics of amateur media cultures through theories of memory, domesticity, and everyday life. Madison holds an MA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. We took a moment to sit down […]
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Every time Dario Robleto installs the print portfolio The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913), now in The Block Museum’s permanent collection, he invites collaborators to re-envision the order in which it is presented, Michael Metzger curator of The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto, told listeners […]
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This season Block Cinema in among 40 national organizations selected by the Coolidge Corner Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as 2022−23 recipients of the Science on Screen® grant program. Selected recipients receive funds to create Science on Screen events, which pair expert-led discussions of scientific topics with screenings of feature and documentary films […]
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