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Friday Film Seminar: Miranda Brady and Jacqueline Kennelly
January 26, 2018 at 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
| Location: | 472 St. Patrick's Building |
| Cost: | Free |
Come hear about the exciting research being done by Miranda Brady in Communication and Jacqueline Kennelly in Sociology and Anthropology!
Bagels, coffee, and tea will be served.
Miranda Brady, The Film Festival as Industry Intervention: Supporting and Growing Indigenous Media Makers
This talk will discuss the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto as a site of support for Indigenous media makers. In particular, it will discuss the ways in which the festival not only provides a venue for Indigenous media makers to showcase their work, but expands the repertoire of what constitutes Indigenous film and media arts. This discussion is informed by participant observation from 2012-2017 at the festival and interviews with festival organizers and media makers.
Miranda J. Brady is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication; co-director of the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language, and Education (CIRCLE); and co-author with John M.H. Kelly of the 2017 UBC Press Book We Interrupt this Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture.
Jacqueline Kennelly, Envisioning Democracy: Participatory Filmmaking with Homeless Youth
What does it mean to practice citizenship and engage in democracy? These questions are difficult to answer for anyone, but they become even more complex when asked of those who have been pushed outside of conventional opportunity structures. How can you effectively engage in the public sphere when you are a young person struggling to survive, often through criminalized activities like selling drugs, panhandling and sex work? How do you raise your issues in a milieu where your voice is considered illegitimate or uninformed? How do you participate in a political process that has consistently marginalized you and your family? Through exploring these questions, and more, with homeless and street-involved youth in Ottawa over a period of eight months, we developed three short films responding to three of the issues they identified as most important: police-youth relations, decriminalizing marijuana, and transitioning out of homelessness. In this presentation, I will show the films, trace the process of developing them, and reflect on larger issues related to civic engagement of young people who are symbolically and literally located outside of conventional political and civic processes.
Jacqueline Kennelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is the author of Olympic Exclusions: Youth, Poverty, and Social Legacies (Routledge, 2016) and Citizen Youth: Culture, Activism, and Agency in a Neoliberal Era (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. She has published extensively on youth activism, urban youth issues, and social exclusion.
