2024-2025 MHC Annual Symposium theme announced!
From Talkies to TikTok: 100 Years of Audiovisual Storytelling
This year’s McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium theme focuses on the myriad ways in which combinations of audio and video can carry a narrative. Whether on a screen, on a stage, in an art installation, or as part of an enhanced lecture, the ways we share art and information have changed drastically in the last century. We expect multidimensional presentations in a way that would be unfamiliar to those living before “talking pictures.” However, our expectations can be related to pre-20th century ways of combining audio, visual, and other elements, including historical religious ceremonies of many kinds, staged musical performances, and community celebrations.
With guest curators, filmmakers, and humanities scholars both on and off campus, the Center will explore how audio-visual culture has influenced the stories we tell and the art of storytelling itself.