Film director Moussa Djigo @STFX

Lecture

Thursday, Oct 12 2023 , 4:30 pm to 6 pm

MULH 4034

The Department of Modern Languages is delighted to be hosting award-winning director and screenwriter, Moussa Djigo, from York University, Thursday, October 12.

You are warmly invited to attend Professor Djigo’s public talk discussing his films which include Obamas, Rosalie, and Demain dès l’aube.

Public lecture: A conversation with filmmaker Moussa Djigo

Thursday Oct. 12, 4:30pm, MULH 4034

Moussa Djigo (bio): https://ampd.yorku.ca/profile/moussa-djigo/

Professor Djigo’s research explores themes including Otherness in Canadian indigenous cinema, African American cinema (Spike Lee), and his films highlight Quebecois, Senegalese, and Canadian indigenous cultures.

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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