He was a featured speaker at the Library of Congress conference on radio and television history—the largest conference of its kind in U.S. history. RPTF Conference 2023: A Century of Broadcasting: Preservation and Renewal. April 27—30, 2023.
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February 13, 2023
Mark J. Williams, a film scholar at the F&MS Dept., talked about the movie's cinematography and hailed it "a very distinctive and successful" film during a recent e-mail interview with Shanghai Daily....
October 18, 2022
Assoc. Professor Mark Williams has been invited to give the inaugural Ebert Lecture at The University of Illinois on Fri, Oct. 28, 2022.
July 18, 2022
Prof. Williams's presentation "U.S. Archival Moving Images of Africa via The Media Ecology Project" reported on The Media Ecology Project progress in researching and interrogating archival footage about "The Idea of Africa", which is the title of the course he is co-teaching with Prof. Ayo Coly (AAAS, COLT).
June 20, 2022
The Journal of e-Media Studies has re-launched on June 1, 2022, with a special issue edited by Hadi Gharabaghi and Bret Vukoder about studies of US Information Agency moving pictures.
April 24, 2022
This Humanities Institute at Dartmouth College, foundational to Digital Humanities at Dartmouth, was directed by Mark Williams, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Film and Television Studies. The assembled scholars met weekly to share their relevant scholarship and also organized two conferences in order to initiate a trans-disciplinary survey of critical issues attendant to the rise of cyber-culture.
January 31, 2022
Prof. Mark Williams (Media Ecology Project ) and Shanghai University signed a cooperation agreement on digital tools and technologies for moving image visual culture research.
March 22, 2021
Professor Mark Williams joined colleagues for an outstanding roundtable discussion at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, held this past weekend
March 01, 2021
A Virtual Workshop Conference organized by Prof. Mark J. Williams and Prof. Han Sang Kim (Ajou University) will be held from March 11 to 12, 2021. Sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea, "South Korea - U.S. Cooperation Program in Humanities".
February 12, 2021
If ever people were longing for entertainment, now is the time. With Valentine's Day approaching, we asked faculty about their favorite romantic films which range from sweet to tragic, and span the globe, several genres, and eight decades.