Selected Research Presentations

Gerald Pratley Lecture

“Entanglements of Resource Extraction in Hudson’s Bay Company Films”

Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, May 2017.

Invited Talks

Cinema Politica Screening: Atlantic (invited speaker). Panel discussion on cinema, offshore oil, and fisheries. St. John’s, February 2020.

 

Youth Talk Climate Change (invited speaker). Panel discussion on youth activism, art, and climate change. The Nexus Centre, Memorial University, October 2019.

Workshops and Summer Schools

Energy In/Out of Place: A Virtual Research-Creation Workshop, June 2020. Participant in a group project with F. Polack, D. Farquharson, and D. Bavington. Co-hosted by the University of Alberta and the University of Waterloo.

 

Solarity: After Oil School 2, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, May 2019. Invited participant. Organized by the Petrocultures Research Group.

Conference Presentations

“Resource Commons, Energy Developments, and Colonial Recognition in Canadian Settler Cinema,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) 13th Biennial Conference, University of California Davis, Davis (USA), June 2019.

 

“Climate Activism as Anti-Colonial World-building,” SCMS Media + Environment Virtual Conference, April 2020. (Virtual event organized following cancellation of SCMS 2020 Conference due to COVID-19).

 

“From Labrador to Leipzig: Sponsored Cinema along the HBC’s Fur Trail,” Animal Remains Biannual Conference of The University of Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK), April 2019.

 

“Resource Frontiers and Cinematic Geologies of the Canadian North,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Toronto, March 2018.

 

“The Shore Line Project, Environmental Justice, and Solution-Based Pedagogy,” Media and Environment Special Interest Group Meeting, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Toronto, March 2018.

 

“Thinking through the Commons with Offshore Oil,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) 12th Biennial Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit (USA), June 2017.

 

“Oil Films and Speculative Futures in Atlantic Canada,” Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore, Memorial University, St. John’s, September 2016.

 

“Between Apocalypse and Utopia: Speculations upon the Oil Archive,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Atlanta (USA), April 2016.

 

“Tracking the Fur Trade: Tracing Colonial Resource Extraction in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives,” Film Studies Colloquium Series, Concordia University, Montreal, April 2016.

 

“Excavating the Archival Landscapes of Fort McMoney,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Montreal, March 2015.

 

“The Digital Dybbuk: Preservation and Loss in Post-vernacular Yiddish Film Archiving,” Thinking Beyond the Canon: New Themes and Approaches in Jewish Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles (USA), March 2015.

 

“Situating the Land: Colonial and National Ecosystems in Al-Ard,” Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow (UK), June 2014.