Speakers

Michelle H. Raheja is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film, which explores the personal narratives and visual aesthetics of Indigenous actors, entertainers, and filmmakers from the inception of the motion picture industry in the U.S. and Canada to the present.  She is also co-editor of Native Studies Keywords and In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization. Her work appears in American Quarterly; American Indian Culture and Research Journal; and Studies in American Indian Literatures. She has co-organized multiple conferences, from Red Rhythms: Contemporary Methodologies in American Indian Dance to, more recently, Neo Native: Toward New Mythologies. Currently, she is working on a monograph of representations of cannibalism in film, visual culture, and literature in the Americas.  She is of Seneca descent and is a guest on the traditional and contemporary homelands of the Tongva people.

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Juan Francisco Salazar is an anthropologist and media scholar/practitioner best known for his contribution to studies of indigenous media practices in Chile and Latin America. He has produced several documentary and experimental short films exhibited internationally including the feature length documentary film Nightfall on Gaia (2015). He is also a co-author of the book Screen media arts: introduction to concepts and practices(with Cohen, H & Barkat, I, 2008, Oxford University Press) and is co-editor (with Sarah Pink, Andrew Irving and Johannes Sjøberg) of Anthropology and futures: researching emerging and uncertain worlds.

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