Anthony Adah, Film Studies, and Film Studies Honors Apprentice, Simone LeClaire, co-presented a paper titled, “Love and Desire in Failed States: Melodrama and Nationhood in Nollywood Video Films” at the biennial Film & History Conference, Nov. 11-14 in Milwaukee. The paper analyzed the formal and stylistic suitability of this genre for addressing times of socio-political crises.
Magdalene H. Chalikia, Psychology, had a paper presented at the 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Nov. 15-19 in Cancun, Mexico. The paper was titled “The judgment of voices does not conform to the evaluative/potency/activity framework. Verlin B. Hinsz (NDSU, Psychology Dept), Luke Berglund and Natasha Maw (MSU Psychology) were co-authors. All, except Natasha, attended the meeting.
Anthony Adah, Film Studies, presented a research paper at the Midwest Popular Culture Association, Minneapolis (Oct 1-3) titled “The Skin of the Lens: Land and Body in Indigenous Documentaries.” He was also elected to the Executive Council as Member-At-Large. In that capacity, Dr. Adah’s immediate duties include being one of the assessors of Undergraduate Papers and working with a team tasked […]