Keynote Lecture: Is the University Recognizing the Gifts of Indigenous Knowledges?
March 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian will discuss of the framework of the book she is writing, Fourth World Cinema: Narrative Sovereignty & Indigenous Knowledges (Working title) grounded in her graduate research that focuses on how Indigenous knowledges informs Indigenous film production practices. Dr. Christian will share stories from her experiences in the field that speak to the centrality of land, story, and cultural protocols.
Respondent: Dr. Wenona Hall, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian is of the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations from the interior plateau regions of what is known as British Columbia in western Canada. Her graduate research centralizes land, story, cultural protocols and how Indigenous Knowledges informs and guides Indigenous film production practices. Before graduate school she worked for the national broadcaster Vision TV to bring Indigenous stories to the national screen.
Dr. Christian serves as Secretary on the Board of the Indigenous Screen Office in Toronto and has curated programs for the 2018 and 2019 ImagineNative film festival, the largest Indigenous film festival in the world. Currently, Dr. Christian is on study leave from the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Simon Fraser University where she sits in the role of Associate Director, Indigenous Policy and Pedagogy. During her leave, she is writing a book, Narrative Sovereignty & Indigenous Knowledges (working title) to be published by Fernwood Press. A chapter, “Competing Narratives on Turtle Island” in a book, Visual Sovereignty & Settler Colonial Screen Culture: The Imaginary Frontier out of Australia is forthcoming in late 2026 with Routledge.
Dr. Wenona Hall is Stó:lō from Sq’ewqeyl First Nation and the Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe located in Chilliwack, BC. She joined SFU’s Indigenous Studies Department in November 2022 as an Associate Professor and in September 2023 assumed the position of Chair. Dr. Hall’s research interests are in Indigenous Governance, Indigenous Justice, Processes of Decolonization and Indigenous Resurgence. She is also a mother of three beautiful children: Jade, Justice and Alexis Lyle Victor.
Friday, March 13th
6:30pm-8:00pm
C400 UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St.
