Scholars@Hallwalls: Laura Terrance
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Join us for the inaugural Scholars@Hallwalls talk of the 2026-27 season! Complimentary beverages and light fare are served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session.
4:00pm | Mingling
4:15pm | Introductions and featured talk followed by Q+A
We hope you'll join us in-person for the good camaraderie and conversation, but you can also livestream the event via the Hallwalls website.
Laura Terrance
(Akwesasne Mohawk)
The Horror of Whiteness: Representations of Violence in Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Get Out
Non-violent action is often espoused as the most effective form of political engagement. As a result, violence is often excluded as an avenue to achieve social justice. An examination of two films, one an Indigenous production and one a Black production, demonstrate that the precise moments of violence and what follows present an understanding of time and space that opens possibilities to consider an anti-colonial future for Indigenous and other racialized peoples. In other words, violence, in this case violent revenge, can function as provocation to imagine otherwise.
Laura Terrance (Akwesasne Mohawk) examines various forms of film, television, music videos, and more to explore Indigenous expressions of being and relating within settler society that present alternative futures. Her manuscript, Generative Violence: Revenge and the Unsavage Body, is grounded in Haudenosaunee epistemologies and considers the relationship between violent revenge inflicted on the settler body by Indigenous and other racialized people and how that violence can influence and direct anti-colonial thought and action. Laura received her Ph.D. in Gender Studies from UCLA in 2012 and an M.A. in Ethnic Studies from UCSD in 2009. She was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow from 2022-2024. She is currently an assistant professor in the Indigenous Studies Department at the University at Buffalo on Onödowáʼga꞉ (Seneca) land.
