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Official Conference Schedule
DatesLocation
 Address
2/19 - 2/20National Museum of the
American Indian		Fourth St. & Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20560
2/19Welcome and Opening Remarks
WEDNESDAYPresentation time
8:30-9:00 AM
Keynote Speaker: Genner Llanes-Ortiz (Bishop's University)
Presentation timePresentation Title
9:00-10:00 AMDigital Indigeneities: Practices and Tools for the next 7 Generations
Panel 1: Indigenous Media and AI
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
10:00-10:15 AMAngelo Baca The Future of the Navajo Nation, Artificial
Intelligence, and Intellectual Property:
Culturally Relevant frameworks
10:15-10:30 AMThea PitmanAIAI: Artificial Intelligence, Art and
Indigeneity
10:30-10:45 AMMelquiades (Kiado)
Cruz Miguel		Empoderamiento digital desde las raíces:
construyendo soberanía de datos con
comunidades indígenas en Oaxaca
10:45-11:00 AMRosalba Sotz Deepfakes y Violencia Digital: Batsil AI,
una herramienta para Proteger a Mujeres
Indígenas Activistas
11:00-11:15 AMDiscussion
11:30-12:15 PMNMAI Walk Through (optional)
Break for Lunch 12:30-1:30 PM
Panel 2: Archives and Accountability
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
1:30-1:45 PMPaul HaaseBuilding an Indigenous Film Archive in Guatemala: A Decolonial Approach to Audiovisual Heritage
1:45-2:00 PMOmar Navarrete MartinezPreservation of Memories of the Sea and the Desert/ Preservación de Memorias del Mar y del Desierto
2:00-2:15 PMNirvana SintiPolítica Pública para la Gestión del Patrimonio Audiovisual de los Pueblos Indígenas de Colombia (PACCPI)
2:15-2:30 PMAlexandra Halkin & Erica WorthamHolding Historic Memory for Future Generations: How to Support Analog Indigenous and Activist Video Collections
2:30-2:45 PMDiscussion
Coffee Break 2:45-3:00 PM
Panel 3: Indigenizing the Digital World Round Table
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
3:00-3:45 PMSuzan Harjo, Dana Hedgpeth & Mark N. TrahantIndigenizing the Digital: Talking Sovereignty in Data and Intergenerational Content
3:45-4:30 PMClosing Discussion and Group Photo
Mẽbêngôkre-Kayapó Film Spotlight at George Washington University
Presentation timeSpeakersPresentation TitleAddress
7:30-9:00 PMPat-i Kapayó & Simone GiovineKayapó film screening and Q&AAddress: 1957 E St NW
Building Code: 1957
Campus: Foggy Bottom
2/20Day Two Opening Remarks
THURSDAYPresentation time
8:30-9:00 AM
Panel 4: Decolonizing Data
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
9:00-9:15 AMLaura Zanotti & Emily ColónMedia Ecologies: Sovereignties, Sustainabilities and Self-determination
9:15-9:30 AMTed Hein The Role Indigenous Media Plays in
Repurpose-IT’s Journey to Decolonize
Technology and Education
9:30-9:45 AMGustavo Ulcué
Campo		Observatorio de Medios Indígenas
9:45-10:00 AMRoberto Pareja Hacia una ontología de los festivales de
cine autóctono de Abya Yala
10:00-10:15 AMDiscussion
Panel 5: Revitalization Pathways
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
10:15-10:30 AMEstela Imigo Literatura y arte mapuche a través del cine
medicina de Francisco Huichaqueo
10:30-10:45 AMTsaywa Samay
Cañamar Maldonado		Revitalización de la Lengua Kichwa: Un
Proyecto de Resistencia Cultural y
Empoderamiento Comunitario a través de AWAK
Academia de Arte y Cultura en la comunidad
kichwa de Camuendo, Ecuador
10:45-11:00 AMRoderico Yool Díaz & Emily Gibson Rhyne Activando los latidos de Abiayala: comunidad, comunicación y video-puentes / Activating the Beats of Turtle Island: Community, Communication and Video-Bridges
11:00-11:15 AMDiscussion
Panel 6: Storying Self-Representation
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
11:15-11:30 AMSilia Moan da SilvaVocê pode me escutar? A relação entre os comunicadores xinguanos e seus projetos de
vida
11:30-11:45 AMPeter Baker Ñawpak: A Study of the New Runa-Kichwa
Cinema of Ecuador
11:45-12:00 PMAndré Lopes The Ijã Mytyli Indigenous Cinema Collective
as an experiment in shared anthropology
12:00-12:15 PMDiscussion
Break for Lunch 12:15-1:15 PM
Panel 7: Visual Resistance, Politics, & Histories of Erasure
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
1:15-1:30 PMGabriel Torrealba
Alfonzo		Enactive Narrativities: Kukama Media and
Rubber-Times Historicity in Peruvian
Amazonia
1:30-1:45 PMVitor Vilaverde
Dias		From the Postcoloniality and the Decolonial
Project to a Caiçara Framework: Brazil in an
Alternate Cosmovision
1:45-2:00 PMLeah VonderheideA Defiant Indigenous Aesthetic:
Reappropriating Neocolonial Technologies in
‘Mothers of the Land’ (Álvaro and Diego
Sarmiento, 2019)
2:00-2:15 PMMaria Chi-ChableVisual Resistance and Cultural Self-
Fashioning: Maya Identity in the Portraits
of Verenice Chalé (Kill Beat)
2:15-2:30 PMDiscussion
Panel 8: Form, Medium, Aesthetics and Media
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
2:30-2:45 PMCamila Coelho From Radio to Internet: The Communication
Shift for the Kayapo
2:45-3:00 PMRichard Pace &
Micah Steinborn		Is there a Mêbêngôkre-Kayapó Film/Image
Aesthetic? Findings from Traditional and
Experimental Film, YouTube, Facebook,
TikTok, and Instagram
3:00-3:15 PMLorena Ojeda-
Davila		Las artesanas y las redes sociales: procesos
de resistencia y empoderamiento entre las
mujeres purépechas.
3:15-3:30 PMAlberto Cuevas
Martínez		"Los medios de comunicación intercultural en
México, ¿una tecnología social?"
3:30-3:45 PMDiscussion
Coffee Break 3:45-4:00 PM
Panel 9: Sovereign Stories, Sovereign Futures
Presentation timeSpeakerPresentation Title
4:00-4:15 PMManuel Antonio Carrión LiraProyectando el funeral de un Estado Nación: Ajustes Mapulécticos en Chileyem, un
Programa de Video Experimental Mapuche
(2020)
4:15-4:30 PMMiguel Imbaquingo
Chimarro		Historias en Resistencia - Stories in
Resistance
4:30-4:45 PMAmalia Cordova Toast to release of Frames of Resistance: The Cinemas
of Abya Yala
4:45-5:00 PMDiscussion
Closing Discussion
Presentation time
5:00-5:30 PM

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