In March 2024, PhD candidate Dareen Hussein traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the 2024 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. She presented her paper “Resurrecting the ‘Songs of Oblivion’: Assia Djebar’s Theory of Counter-Cinema” as part of the panel entitled “Transnational Francophone Cinema: Hybridity, Code-switching, and interculturality”. Dareen was able to attend several other panels during the conference, and in her free time, she made a quick trip to the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), to see the collection of works currently on view. Her trip was generously supported by the Sara Jane Pyne Memorial Scholarship Award through the department of History of Art.