Pat Collins is a film maker from West Cork who has made over 30 films over the last 25 years. His latest film is the documentary Henry Glassie: Fieldwork. He has directed the feature films Song of Granite and Silence. Fionnuala Halligan of ‘Screen International’ wrote “In an era of safe film-making, especially within the art-house sector, it’s rare to view a title as formally audacious as ‘Song of Granite’.” He has made films on the writer John McGahern, the poets Michael Hartnett and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, the Connemara based writer and cartographer Tim Robinson, the Iranian film maker Abbas Kiarostami (co-directed with Fergus Daly), and two political feature essay films ‘What We Leave in Our Wake’ (2009) and ‘Living in a Coded Land’ (2014). He also makes short experimental films including ‘Pilgrim’, ‘What Remains’, ‘Twilight’, and the forthcoming ‘All Ways’ funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. He is also in post-production with an observational documentary on the making of Michael Keegan-Dolan’s dance show ‘Mám’.

Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has received many awards for his work, including the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Haney Prize in the Social Sciences, the Cummings Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, the Kniffen and Douglas awards of the Pioneer America Society, the Nigerian Studies Association Book Prize, and formal recognition for his contributions from the ministries of culture of Turkey and Bangladesh. Three of his works have been named among the notable books of the year by The New York Times.

Pravina Shukla is Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, at Indiana University. Her research areas are material culture, specifically dress and costume, folk art, museum studies, and foodways. A passionate teacher, Professor Shukla is a four-time winner of the Indiana University Trustee Teaching Award. In 2018, Shukla won the esteemed Indiana University President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching which honors “the most exceptional faculty, their devotion to students and their strong commitment to the university’s fundamental missions.”