Congratulations to Dr. Colleen Laird, our Assistant Professor of Japanese Film, and Dr. Lucy Fife Donaldson (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) for receiving a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Catalyst grant for their collaborative project “Ways of Undoing.”
The three-year international initiative positions videographic criticism at the forefront of the digital humanities, asking how audiovisual scholarship can resist entrenched academic and cinematic hierarchies. By focusing on practices of craft, collaboration, and process, the project seeks to reimagine how knowledge is produced, circulated, and valued.
Over the next three years (2026-2028), Drs. Donaldson and Laird will host three fully-funded summer workshops on videographic criticism in Scotland (U. St. Andrews, 2026), Canada (UBC, 2027), and Japan (Meiji U, 2028), all culminating in curated screenings with various partners including a special program at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) in 2028. Details on the workshops and how to apply forthcoming in early 2026.
