Conference Schedule
InDigital program (PDF)
Thursday Feb. 14 at Tennessee State Museum (1000 Rosa L. Parks Blvd on Bicentennial Capital Mall State Park – Nashville, TN)
4:15 PM Registration opens at Tennessee State Museum – Grand Hall
4:15-5:15 PM Welcome Reception at Grand Hall and “First Peoples” Walk-Though with curator
5:30-7:30 PM InDigital Film Program in Tennessee State Museum Digital Learning Center
Films TBA on InDigital III website
Dinner (on your own)
Friday Feb. 15 at Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Community Room
9:00–9:50 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks
Richard Pace, “InDigital Conference Engaging Indigenous Media: Past, Present, and Future”
Pam Wilson, “Global Indigenous Media, Revisited”
Amalia Cordova, “Locating Archives of Indigenous Audiovisual Memory”
10:00 AM Opening Keynote with Juan F. Salazar followed by discussion
“Ancestral Futures in Uncertain Times: A Role for Indigenous Media Practice and Scholarship”
11:00–12:20 PM Panel 1 – Mediations of Memory and Imagined Futures
11:00 Gustavo Procopio, “Memory and the Possibilities of the Archive: The Videographic Mediation of Video nas Aldeias’ Films”
11:20 André Lopes Neves, “Video as Ibirapema: The Possibility of a Prospective Memory for the Manoki People”
11:40 Gabriela Zamorano, “Indigenous Media in Bolivia: Reflections on Political Imaginaries and Decolonization”
12:00-12:20 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:50 PM Panel 2 – The Embodied, the Invisible: Case Studies
1:30 Joshua Nelson, “Fostering Native Film”
1:50 Kristin Dowell, “Decolonizing Animation: The Inventive Stop-Motion Films of Amanda Strong”
2:10 Joana Brandão Tavares, “Beyond Sight: Multi-Perspectivism and Gender Agency in the Films of Maxakali People”
2:30 Claudia Artega, “The Critical Pedagogy of Three Testimonial Documentaries Starring Maya Women from Guatemala”
2:30 – 2:50 PM Discussion
3:00-4:20 PM Panel 3 – Digital Dissidence, Activist Media
3:00 Freya Schiwy, “Decolonial Affect, Mexico, and Activist Video”
3:20 Kellie Cavagnaro and Jamie Shenton, “Territories of Contested Womanhood: Pussyhats, the Pachamama, and Embodied Resistance in the Era of Hashtag Feminism”
3:40 Sarah Samash,“Spirituality and Geo-Politics in the Mbya Guarani Cinema collective: Tava the House of Stone”
4:00 Mario Murillo, “From the Sierra Nevada to the Living Jungle: A Report Back from the First Two Global Workshops for Indigenous Leaders”
4:00 – 4:20PM Discussion
4:30 – 5:45 PM Indigenous Filmmaker Roundtable: The State of Indigenous Media – Challenges and Futures
Jesse Darling, Angelo Baca, Divino Tserewahu, David Hernández Palmar, Bepkadjoiti Kayapó
6:00 PM Closing Keynote with Michelle Raheja followed by discussion
“Indigenous Cartographies of Desire”
7:15 PM Invitational Dinner
Provided by Vanderbilt’s Center for Latin American Studies for all conference attendees in Buttrick Hall Atrium (on campus)
Saturday Feb. 16 at Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Community Room
10:30 AM–12:10 PM Panel 4 – Circulation, Reception and New Media Practices
10:30 Carlos Baca, “Technological Autonomy in the Creation and Socialization of Knowledge in Indigenous Peoples of Mexico”
10:50 Alondra Barba, “Wixárika Youth: Self-Representation through Digital Social Networks”
11:10 Laura Graham, “The Shifting Directions of Indigenous Media in Pimentel Barbosa: From Existential Recognition to Local Consumption”
11:30 Daniel Lavelle, “Providing a Platform: Survival International’s Tribal Voice Project and Using Video in International Indigenous Rights Campaigns”
11:50 – 12:10 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:50 PM Panel 5 – Broadcast Media
1:30 Kevin E. Smith, “Representations of Native Americans in Popular Speculative Television (1955-2010)”
1:50 Kathleen Buddle, “Indigenous Radio: An Insurgent Infrastructure in Canada”
2:10 Claudia Magallanes-Blanco, “Listening to the Audience: What do Audiences Think of Their Indigenous Community Radios? A look at the Audiences of Radio Ñuu Kaan and Radio Guluchi in Oaxaca, Mexico”
2:30-2:50 PM Discussion
3:00-4:15 PM Kayapo Collaborative Filmmaking Roundtable: Challenges, Continuity, Results
Richard Pace, Laura Zanotti, Christine Wells, Paul Chilsen, Ann Marie Pace, Lorraine Carvalho, Simone Giovine, and Bepkadjoiti Kayapó