STPA Conference

Minnesota Anishinaabe Stoneworks Sustaining Cultural Knowledge as Resistance Narratives
Presenter: Kevin Slivka
Duane Goodwin’s [Anishinaabe] stonework, “Sacred Dish” created during St. Paul College’s International CarvingSymposium sustains Indigenous traditional cultural knowledge and generates resistance narratives to the predominant Euro-American worldviews. Correspondences to new materialisms are also discussed.

Fences as Sonic Bridges: Musical Activism at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Presenter: Sabine Feisst
Prompted by increased US-Mexico border fortification, Richard Lerman, Glenn Weyant and other musical activists have highlighted the borderland’s rich and fragile natural sounds and cross-cultural music practices, performing on border fences to build sonic bridges.

Videogame as Enactment of Cultural Resilience: A Concept Explication based on "Never Alone"
Presenter: Susan Clotelter
Cultural resilience is a hot topic in disaster studies but remains underdefined. This paper explores cultural resilience as a restorative performance and process, rather than commodity. Then it asks: Can a videogame qualify?

Engendering the Ungendering of Compassion
Presenter: Desiree Bradford Scarambone
In the Middle Ages compassion was a gendered performance, a result of meditation on the Passion. Contemporary Passion settings are calling for compassion from and for those of all genders.