June 4-6: FSAC Annual Conference

Communication, Popular Culture and Film professors Anthony Kinik and Christie Milliken will be traveling to the University of British Columbia for the 2019 Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) annual conference.

They join Peter Lester, Program Chair and FSAC President who organized this year’s conference. The program includes featured speakers, roundtable discussions, screenings, lectures and panel discussions.

June 4
Indigenous Cinemas/Settler Cinemas panel

  • Chair: Ezra Winton
  • Anne Barnes
  • Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University) “The Possessions of Pain: Forms and Rhymes for Young Ghouls
  • Jean-Sebastien Houle

June 5
Industry and Ephemera panel 

  • Chair: Peter Lester (Brock University)
  • Kathryn Armstrong
  • Wendy Donnan
  • Denise Mok

Eco-cinema and the Environment

  • Chair: Chelsea Birks
  • Mario Trono
  • Christie Milliken (Brock University) “Documenting Scale, Contemplating Magnitude in Anthropocene
  • Charlotte Dronier
  • Ilona Juronyte

June 6
Legacies of the NFB

  • Chair: Anthony Kinik
  • Tricia Close-Koenig
  • Mark Barber
  • Anthony Kinik (Brock University) “Denys Does Montreal: Denys Arcand’s Documentaries and the Critique of Urban Space, 1962-1972”

Trauma and Torture in Contemporary Television

  • Chair: Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University)
  • Brett Robinson (Brock University) “Born in Blood: Trauma, Selfhood, and Dexter”
  • Mynt Marsellus
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