2025-26 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations

Please join us for a two-day event with Professor Dylan Robinson (UBC), xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) scholar, artist, curator, and writer.

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Dylan Robinson: Screening of film Amuksism you really have to listen and Lecture Pandemonium

Monday, March 9th, 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm
Minto Centre MC 2000

Screening of Amuksism. You really have to listen. (2025) by Robinson and Neven Lochhead with Nick Dangeli. Followed by a Q&A with Professor Robinson.

This film documents a process of redress undertaken by Dr. Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō/Skwah) and members of the Nisga’a Nation (Keane Tait, Michael Dangeli) with the Canadian Opera Company for their 2017 production of Louis Riel, which contains the unauthorized use of a Nisga’a Limx ooy song belonging to the House of Sgat’iin.

Tuesday, March 10th, 6:30 pm to 8 pm
College of the Humanities (Patterson Hall 303)

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Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations (ICSLAC)

In this lecture, Robinson will argue that public art plays a significant role in the formation of settler subjectivity and indigenous resurgence by focusing on non-human forms of vocal address and, in particular, the sensory appeals of public art.

Organized by Dr. Malini Guha, holder of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship (RMPP) with support from Indigenous Studies, Film Studies, Music, Research Centre for Music, Sound and Society in Canada, Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations

The Chris Faulkner Lecture Series 

The Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations is an intellectual forum which brings together faculty and students from across campus with high-level visitors to work collaboratively on ideas that matter in cultural theory, memory studies, Indigenous studies, digital culture, museum studies, gender and sexuality studies, and transnational studies. The Lecture is named in honour of Professor Chris Faulkner, Distinguished Research Professor, founding member of the Cultural Mediations program and first Director of the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature Art and Culture. Past speakers have included: