(Dean of Fine Arts

and Professor of Media Studies)

“Contact Zones:

Memory, Origin, and Discourses

in Black Diasporic Cinema”

Date: Tuesday 26 February 2008

Time: 4:00 pm

Place: University Club, CW 215

All are welcome

Refreshments will be provided

For further information please call Kara Vincent (HRI) at 585-4226

Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. Likewise, black diasporic film tends to focus on the complexities of transnational identity, which oscillates between similarity and difference and resists easy categorization. This talk will address some of the influences of black diasporic cinema on contemporary artistic and theoretical discourses. This event celebrates the publication of Sheila Petty‘s new book Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2008).

Sheila Petty is Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Professor of Media Studies at the University of Regina. She has written extensively on issues of cultural representation, identity and nation in African and African diasporic cinema and new media, and has curated film, television and new media exhibitions for galleries across Canada.