Chaz and Roger Ebert Symposium

The Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies organizes the Chaz and Roger Ebert Symposium each spring, featuring a film screening, a keynote address, and roundtable discussions with film scholars, film and culture critics, and filmmaker guests who are in town for Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

Past Ebert Symposiums

2025

• “Artificial Intelligence Imagined and Realized”

2024

• “Representations and Their Critics”

2023

• “Documentary, Violence, and the Media”

2020

• Virtual Series:
  • “The Movie Industry in a Time of Change”
  • “Documentary Film and Social Change”
  • “Representation in Media”

2019

• “Creating an Inclusive Media and Cinema Ecosystem”

2018

• “Empathy for the Universe: Storytelling and Data Visualization”