by 5:00pm

6:00pm-7:00pm

7:00pm-8:00pm

8:15pm-11:00pm

Fellows Arrival to Colgate Campus

Fellows Meet + Greet (Hall of Presidents (HOP))

Fellows Dinner (HOP)

Fellows Screening (Little Hall, Classroom 114)

9:00am-9:45am

10:00am-12:30pm

12:45pm-1:45pm

2:00pm-3:00pm

3:00pm-4:00pm

4:00pm-5:00pm

5:00pm-5:30pm

6:00pm-7:30pm

8:00pm-11:00pm

Breakfast: Fellows and Flaherty Board (HOP)

Fellows Orientation + Task Training (Clark Discussion Room)

Lunch (HOP)

Anti-Masterclass (Little Hall, Classroom 114)

Free Time!

Curatorial Fellows Presentations (Little Hall, Classroom 114)

Fellows Group Photo (Little Hall, Lawn)

Seminar Opening Reception (TBA)

Seminar First Screening + Discussion (Golden Auditorium)

Dessane Lopez Cassell is an editor, writer, and curator based in New York. Her work focuses on artist’s moving image, documentary, and experimental film practices concerned with race, gender, and decoloniality, with a particular interest in voices from the African and Caribbean diasporas.

A former museum worker, Cassell has organized curatorial projects and screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Anthology Film Archives, and the Black Women’s Film Conference, among others. Her published writings include essays, interviews, and cultural criticism in Hyperallergic, Film Comment, and Seen, as well as in catalogues from the Whitney Museum of American Art, BlackStar Film Festival, the Studio Museum, and MoMA.

Cassell has received scholarly awards and fellowships from the Ford Foundation and The Flaherty, the US Fulbright Commission, CUNY Graduate Center, and Oberlin College. Additionally, she has produced and hosted podcasts and radio projects for Microsoft (in collaboration with Listen), Roskilde Festival (Denmark), Bay FM and Creative X (both South Africa).

Raised in New York City, Cassell is of Dominican and African American descent. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Seen, a new journal of film and visual culture from BlackStar Projects. Cassell also sits on the programming committee for BlackStar Film Festival and formerly served as the reviews editor at Hyperallergic.

[For reference, her name is pronounced <dah-sawn loh-pez kuh-sell>]

Felicity E. Palma is an image-based artist and curator whose research considers human mobility and stasis, place, and myth-making through the intersections of documentary, performance, and experimental time-based practices. She is predominantly concerned with the social construction and fluidity of borders, tourism as performance, notions of belonging, embodiment, dis/ease, alienation, and the senses.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Felicity is currently based in Pittsburgh, PA where she is a Visiting Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a BA in Language Studies from UC Santa Cruz, an MA in European and Mediterranean Studies from New York University and an MFA in Experimental & Documentary Art from Duke University. Her work has screened internationally at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Kinodot, Split Video Art Festival, Bideodromo, Orfeo on the Beach, Harkat 16mm, Traverse Vidéo, ICDOCS, WNDX, Flex Fest, among others. Her 2019 film Medusa and The Abyss won Best of Fest at the 2020 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival. 

Felicity also curates screenings of experimental, independent, and transnational films for Sideyard Cinema, an outdoor microcinema project she founded during the COVID-19 pandemic.