Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice was a collaborative videographic workshop hosted by the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with Tel Aviv University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Aimed at training graduate students in audiovisual rhetoric, it explored videographic criticism as a methodology of scholarly research and knowledge production. Participants developed video essays that sought to express, rethink, and enhance the central arguments of their theses or dissertations.

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Reframing the Argument was co-organized by Colleen Laird, Matthew Thomas Payne, Barbara Zecchi, and myself. It was made possible through a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant and a Schlindwein Family Tel Aviv University–Notre Dame Collaboration Grant. 

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The workshop resulted in two peer-reviewed special issue publications, co-edited by the workshop organizers. The first of these was “Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice," a special issue of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies (issue 13.2, 2026).