Communication Studies Associate Professor Miranda J. Brady will present a paper and chair a panel at this year’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference hosted in Honolulu at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa from May 18-21.
NAISA’s interdisciplinary conference centres on global approaches to Indigenous studies and attracts scholars from around the world. Brady’s paper, “Terril Calder: Building More-than-Human Communities Through Stop-Motion Animation” is part of a panel on “Indigenous Eco-Media: Environment, Community, and Storytelling.”
The panel features scholars from the U.S. and Canada who explore Indigenous media (websites, video games, film, and animation) that promote ecological themes as part of broader ontological orientations and traditional teachings.
Brady’s paper explores the work of Métis stop-motion animation filmmaker Terril Calder. In particular, it discusses the possibilities and challenges of community-building and animal/human relations in Calder’s films, such as her first feature The Lodge (2014). It asks what creative thinkers like Calder might be able to tell us about polyvocal communities and and how her work can inform feminist and post-humanist approaches.
Front page and banner photo: Still from Terril Calder’s The Lodge, 2014
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 in Communication News, News
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