Conference Schedule

Simultaneous French-English interpretation will be available.


 

June 24

10 am (Regina Time/CST/GMT-6): Rabat 17h/5pm:

Keynote presentation by Dr. Ahmed Boukouss, Recteur, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, Rabat, Morocco:

“Revitalisation de la langue Amazighe/Revitalization of the Amazigh Language” will be delivered in French LIVE via Zoom.

Introduction by:
University of Regina Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Thomas Chase;
Humanities Research Institute Director, Charity Marsh;
and Symposium co-convener, Sheila Petty



12 noon (Regina Time/CST): 

Panel:  Festivals as venues for safeguarding and disseminating cultural heritage

Chairs:

  • Brahim Benbouazza, Dept. of Film, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina
  • Sheila Petty, Dept of Film, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina


Panelists:

  • Ben Akoh;
  • Driss Azdoud;
  • Rachid Bouksim;
  • Habiba Boumlik;
  • Ana Camila Esteves;
  • Hélène Hagan;
  • Gérard Le Chêne;
  • Lucy McNair

Respondent:

  • Aboubakar Sanogo

Themes discussed:

  • Role of the film critic;
  • Enhancing access to local and transnational living cultural heritage;
  • How does a festival create a ‘journey of discovery’ in translating and contextualizing films for specific populations and audiences and creating virtual and on-site dialogues?

June 25

10 am (Regina Time/CST)

Panel: Identity, creativity and diversity in transnational screen media cultural heritage

Chair: Charity Marsh, Director, Humanities Research Institute, University of Regina

Panelists:

  • Soubeika (Wafa) Bahri;
  • Babatunde Bakare;
  • Estrella Sendra Fernandez;
  • Mineko Mori;
  • Julia Palacios;
  • Janine Windolph

Themes discussed:

  • Curatorship and archiving practices;
  • Documentary versus fiction;
  • Activist screen media;
  • Human rights; gender roles;
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives;
  • Prospects for genre development in transnational co-productions.


12 noon (Regina Time/CST)

Panel: Prospects for teaching transnational screen media

Chair: Jerôme Melançon, La cité universitaire francophone, University of Regina

Panelists:

  • Taiwo Afolabi;
  • Chigbo Anyaduba
  • Yahya Laayouni;
  • Stephen Okpadah
  • Tunde Onikoyi
  • Sheila Petty

Themes discussed:

  • Modes of storytelling in transnational screen media;
  • Tangible and intangible manifestations of living cultural heritage in transnational literary and cinematic contexts;
  • Language acquisition and revitalization in transnational screen media; performance diplomacy and cultural diplomacy
 
 

June 26

10 am (Regina Time/CST)

Filmmakers/Producers Panel

Chair:  Valerie Creighton (President and CEO, Canada Media Fund)

Themes discussed:

  • Transnational co-productions; Indigenous languages and cultures in transnational screen media production

 

Panelists:

  • Ahmed Baidou
  • Melissa Elizondo;
  • Hélène Hagan;
  • Mineko Mori;
  • Cecilia Giron Perez;
  • Raul O. Paz Pastrana;
  • Janine Windolph;
  • Nadia Zouaoui
 
 
Conference Schedule was last modified: June 17th, 2021 by HRi