Meet in the Middle: Stations of Migration and Memory Between Art and Film (Regina, 2014-2017)

Fri., Sep. 23, 2016 3:30 p.m. - Fri., Sep. 23, 2016 5:00 p.m.

Location: University of Regina, ED 113

Dr. Christine Ramsay is Associate Professor in the Department of Film (University of Regina). Her research, teaching and service are in the areas of Canadian and Saskatchewan cinemas, masculinities in contemporary cinemas, curatorial studies in expanded cinema, the culture of small cities, and philosophies of identity. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, andImaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. She has published in several anthologies and journals, including Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada, Expressions culturelles de la francophonie, Self Portrait II: Cinema in Canada, Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture, North of Everything: English Canadian Cinema Since 1980, Canada's Greatest Films, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, andPost Script. She edited the anthology Making It Like A Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011) and co-edited Overlooking Saskatchewan: Minding the Gap (University of Regina Press, 2014) with Randal Rogers. She is currently collaborating on a retrospective of the lens-based installations of Canadian-Armenian filmmaker and artist Atom Egoyan, part of the larger international curatorial project Meet in the Middle: Stations of Migration and Memory Between Art and Film (2014-2017). Forthcoming from the Egoyan project is Atom Egoyan: Steenbeckett (Black Dog, 2017), co-edited with Timothy Long and Elizabeth Matheson. Dr. Ramsay has served as President of the Film Studies Association of Canada, Chair of the Regina Arts Commission, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Dunlop Art Gallery, and is currently a Board Member of the Art Gallery of Regina.