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Events

Cinema Thinks The World organizes public film screenings, Critical Thinkers talks, grant-writing workshops, and conferences to foster multidisciplinary collaboration and advance dewesternising and decolonising film and media studies.

Upcoming Events

  1. victor
    April 10, 2026

    Critical Thinkers Series: Victor Fan (Kings College London)

    Victor Fan, Professor of Film and Media Philosophy, King’s College LondonInterthinking: Vijñāna and the Cultural Logic of Cognitive UnconsciousIn her recent books, Katherine Hayles proposes the term “cognitive unconscious,” defined as a cognitive operation that enables both sentient and nonsentient…

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We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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