(Cinematic) Empathy, a CHAT Fellow Presentation with Malcolm Turvey, 10/9

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The Center for Humanities would like to invite you for a CHAT Fellow presentation by Malcolm Turvey, Sol Gittleman Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Tufts. In his talk, Professor Turvey will be focusing on empathy’s moral limits and liabilities, and questioning whether film’s putative empathy-expanding power is as virtuous as many assume.

Malcolm Turvey joined Tufts in 2015 to launch the new Film & Media Studies Program, and was its founding Director from 2015 until 2021. Turvey received his Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University in 2002. He has been an editor of the journal October since 2001, and serves on the editorial board of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind. He works primarily in the areas of film theory, the philosophy and aesthetics of film, avant-garde film, and film and modernism. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of three books: Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s (MIT Press, 2011), and Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2019). He is also co-editor of Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts (Routledge, 2001) and Camera Obscura/Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (University of Amsterdam Press, 2003). He is currently finishing a book titled In Defense of Humanistic Explanation: Film, Art and the Limits of Science. 

This event is open to all. No RSVP is required, but if you have questions, please reach out to us at humanities@tufts.edu.