The College of Communication at DePaul University is the current host of the Chicago Film Seminar, in which faculty and graduate students from Chicago-area institutions regularly meet at the Loop campus for presentations from invited guests on their latest research in film and media studies:
http://chicagofilmseminar.blogspot.com/
Please join us on March 13 (6:30 pm, room LL102, 14 E. Jackson St.) when MCS professor Michael DeAngelis will give a talk entitled "Reading the Bromance," from his forthcoming book of the same title, published by Wayne State University Press:
http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/reading-bromance