Office for Global Engagement

International Activities

International Publications

• Native American Nations: Chris Lippard (2021). “Native Metal Music, Identity, and Authenticity: The Diné RezMetal Scene” in Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance, Dissension, and Reconciliation in the Americas. Gonçalo Cholant (ed.). . (pp. 287-318). Coimbra University Press, 2021., 11/2021
• Native American Nations: Chris Lippard (2021). “Anthony Mann’s Noir Western as Social Critique: Race and Gender Dynamics in Devil’s Doorway” in Inter-American Perspectives in the 21st Century. Wilfried Raussert (ed.). . (pp. 225-140). New Orleans: The University of New Orleans Press, 2021: 225-240.., 09/2021
• Global, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, State of Palestine, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen: Chris Lippard & Terri Ginsberg (2020). Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, 2nd edition, revised and expanded. (pp. 704). Rowman and Littlefield., 08/2020
• Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, State of Palestine, Syria, Western Sahara: Chris Lippard & Terri Ginsberg (2020). Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice. Editor and contributor. In Progress. Contract signed with , manuscript due: May 1, 2019. (pp. 445). Palgrave MacMillan in the Global Cinema Series., 05/2020
• Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Western Sahara: Chris Lippard (2020). “Mobilities of Cinematic Identity in the Western Sahara” in Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice. . (pp. 147-200 (54)). Palgrave MacMillan., 05/2020
• Iran: Chris Lippard (2017). “Peripherality and Humour in the Iranian Art Film” . Iranian Studies. Vol. 50:6, 917-944., 09/2017
• Mexico: “The Body in Decay: A review of Sebastián Hofmann’s Halley” Journal of Medical Humanities: vol. 35, number 4, December 2014, pp.455-457, 12/2014
• Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey: Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, Rowan and Littlefield/Scarecrow Press, March, 2010 . Co-editor and chief contributor with Terri Ginsberg, 03/19/2010
• Burkina Faso: "The Pan-African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO)" Cinema Journal 49:2 (Winter 2009), 125-129., 12/12/2009
• Bolivia: “National, Cultural and Linguistic (In)Securities: Perceptions of the United States in Some Bolivian Films.” E Pluribus Unum?: National and Transnational Identities in the Americas/ Identidades nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas Ed. Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies. Tempe, AZ, Arizona State/Bilingual Press, 2008., 07/2008

International Presentations

• Guatemala, Mexico: “Restaging trauma and travail: The Push and Pull of Inter-American Migration re-envisioned on Film.” Accepted for presentation at the International Association of Inter-American Studies Biannual Conference, Laredo, October 2020 (Conference cancelled/postponed due to Covid-19), delivered at virtual conference, October 2021, 11/2021
• Tunisia: “Challenging the Aesthetics of the Migration Film in Arab Cinema.” Accepted for presentation at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Denver, April 2020 (Conference cancelled/postponed due to Covid-19); delivered at the 2021 meeting, March 2021). (Also panel chair and organizer), 03/2021
• Native American Nations: “Run to the Hills, Indians: The Portrayal of Native Americans in classic Metal music,” Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, Las Vegas, February 2020 (Also panel chair and organizer)., 12/2019
• Western Sahara: “Mobilization and Visualization: Strategies for a Sahrawi Cinema in Exile and Under Occupation,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2019 , 03/2019
• Mexico, Morocco, Syria, Western Sahara: Keynote Presentation (“Border Incidents” ) at Southwest English Symposium: Borders and Cross-Cultural Encounters, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 2019. , 03/2019
• Native American Nations: Heavy Metal as costume and identity on and off the reservation,” Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, Las Vegas, February 2019. , 02/2019
• Western Sahara: “The Use of Culture as Political Device in the Western Saharan Conflict: an Overview.” Research-in- Progress. University of Utah Middle East Center, 01/2019
• Western Sahara: “Cinema in the Western Sahara: Crossing Borders and Visualizing Progress,” University Film and Video Association Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico , 07/2018
• Native American Nations: “Resistance and Accommodation through Metallica: Metal music on the Navajo Reservation,” International Association of Inter-American Studies Biannual Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, 03/2018
• Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara: Sand, Surfing and Fishing Rights Contested: Sahrawi and Moroccan uses of the Internet to Depict the Saharan Coast,” “Cinema of the Arab World” Symposium, American University in Cairo, Egypt , 03/2018
• Native American Nations: “Noir Depictions of Land and Land Rights” University Film and Video Association Conference, Los Angeles, August, 2017 (Also panel chair). , 08/2017
• Native American Nations: “Noir Aesthetics as a Depiction of Institutional Racism: Anthony Mann’s Devil’s Doorway and the Denial of Land Rights to First Americans,” International Association of Inter-American Studies Biannual Conference, Santa Barbara, October, 2016. , 08/2016
• Mexico: “The Body in Decay: Sebastián Hofmann’s Halley” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Montreal, March 2015 , 03/2015
• Iran: “Disguise as Power in Offside and The Lizard” Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, Las Vegas, February 2015 (Also, panel chair), 02/2015
• Iran: “Placing Humor and Technology in the Iranian Art Film,” The Visual World of Persianate Culture International Conference, Edinburgh, October, 2014. (Participation funded by grants form the Middle East Center and asia Cente), 10/2014
• Iran: “Malfunction and Humor in the Iranian Art Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2014. , 03/2014
• Mexico: “The Dead Body in Contemporary Mexican Cinema.” (Accepted for presentation, Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, Las Vegas, February 2014.) (Also, panel chair). , 02/2014
• Mexico: “The New Western: Ties and Threats to Nature in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.” Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, Las Vegas, February 2013 (Also, panel chair). , 02/2013
• Israel, Mexico: “Turning the Soil, Crossing the Divide: Movement and Imagination in Contemporary Border films.” University Film and Video Association Conference, Chicago, August, 2012. , 08/2012
• Argentina, Israel: “The Animal as a Figure of (Dis-)empowerment in The Color of Olives, Border Incident, and La Ciénega.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, New Orleans. March 2011. , 03/2011
• Germany: “Germans and German Stereotypes in Hollywood and Mexican Cinema, 1919-1950.” Department of American Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, November, 2010. Conference Paper, Professional, other, 11/19/2010. International (Germany)., 11/19/2010
• Germany, Italy, Russia: “Into Mother Earth They Tear: Crossing Borders and Breaking Ground in Jonathan of the Bears and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.” International Association of Inter-American Studies Biannual Conference, Essen, Germany, November, 2010. , 11/13/2010
• Iran: “The Architecture of Desired Space in Recent Iranian Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles. March 2010., 03/12/2010
• Germany, Israel, Mexico: “Animalia and movement in border crossing films.” Beyond Borders Symposium. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Westphalia, Germany. June 2009, 06/30/2009
• Germany, India, Mexico: “Narrative Spaces and Transnational Identities in Babel, The Namesake and Quinceanera.” Hemispheric Identities Symposium. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Westphalia, Germany. October 2008. , 10/17/2008
• Germany, India, Mexico: “Narrative Spaces and Transnational Identities in Babel, The Namesake and Quinceanera.” Hemispheric Identities Symposium. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Westphalia, Germany. October 2008. , 10/17/2008

International Teaching

• Argentina, Cuba, Mexico: Brought Screendance pioneer and head of the Buenos Aires Dance Film Festival, Silvina Szperling, to teach classes across 4 departments and lead workshops on cross-cultural Film and Movement., 10/2018
• Egypt: Middle East Center Grant with additional support from the Department of Film and Media Arts for bringing Tamer El Said, Egyptian director and head of Cairo Cinemateque, October, 2018, $1300, 10/2018

International Conferences

• Portugal: “Resistance and Accommodation through Metallica: Metal Music on the Navajo Reservation,” Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance, Dissension, and Reconciliation in the Americas (International Association of Inter-American Studies Biannual Conference), Coimbra, Portugal, March, 2018., 03/23/2018-03/28/2018
• Egypt: “Sand, Surfing and Fishing Rights Contested: Sahrawi and Moroccan Uses of the Internet to Depict the Saharan Coast,” “Cinema of the Arab World” Symposium, American University in Cairo, Egypt, March 2018., 03/01/2018-03/05/2018
• Germany: Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Westphalia, Germany: sub-research Group on “Ethnic Identities in Transnational Integration Processes in the Americas” July, 2009", 07/01/2009
• Germany: Beyond Borders Symposium. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Westphalia, Germany. June 2009, 06/30/2009
• Burkina Faso: 21st FESPACO film festival, 03/01/2009
• Germany: “Narrative Spaces and Transnational Identities in Babel, The Namesake and Quinceanera.” Hemispheric Identities Symposium. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Westphalia, Germany. , 2008

International Internal Service

• France, Mauritania: Facilitator and discussion leader, Tournées Film Festival. 6-film series on-line film series, in collaboration with the Office for Global Engagement and the Department of Languages and World Cultures, January-March, 2021., 01/2021-03/2021
• United Kingdom: British Studies interdisciplinary Degree Board (and Fine Arts representative), 04/2008-05/2015

International External Service

• Czech Republic, Slovakia: Screener/Programmer, Czech That Film Festival, Salt Lake Film Society. Broadway Cinema, April, 2015-2016, 2019. (No event in 2020-2022 due to COVID restricitons), 02/2015

International Professional Service

• Jordan: Consulted on organization of the program of Study for newly-created state-of-the-art institution in Jordan, Red Sea Institute for the Cinematic Arts, 01/2008-04/2010

International Media

• Croatia, Egypt, Rwanda: Interviewed by Mary Dickson for KUED’s Contact regarding 2015, Global Lens Film Series, September 2015, 09/2015
• Brazil: Interviewed by Mary Dickson for KUED’s Contact regarding 2014, Global Lens Film Series, September 2014, 09/2014
• India: Interviewed by Mary Dickson for KUED’s Contact regarding Mira Nair’s campus visit, March, 2013., 03/2013

Countries and Regions of Interest

• Northern Africa
• Western Sahara