BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 RDATE:20120311T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 RDATE:20121104T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T170000 LOCATION:Miller Hall GEO:45.450858;-122.668265 SUMMARY:Global Flows and Minority Media Production in Southwest China DESCRIPTION:Tami Blumenfield\, PhD This talk discusses intersections bet ween artists and filmmakers from Europe\, South Korea\, and Japan in a s mall ethnic minority community in the foothills of the Himalayas. The Na who live there attract the \;imagination of outsiders for their perc eived sexual freedom and their \;egalitarian gender system. After ove r a decade of tourism and media \;production focused on their communi ty\, a digital media training course \;I organized in collaboration w ith the Moso Folk Museum helped local \;people amplify their own voic es in the representational cacophony. \;After the training ended\, Ar chei traveled to Beijing to create a film \;about a Dutch woman who p urchased part of a Na family's house as part \;of her own artistic im aginings. This film then screened at an \;international film festival held in Kunming\, China. Despite its \;enthusiastic reception\, Arch ei declined to pursue distribution. In \;this talk\, I analyze his de cision and its implications for \;community-based media production mo re broadly. Tami received her PhD from the University of \;Washingto n in 2010. Her dissertation\, Scenes from Yongning: Media \;Creation in China's Na Villages\," discussed a collaborative media \;project t hat involved a community film festival and ethnographies of media produc tion. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the \;Sociology &\; Anthropology Department and currently teaches Gender in \;Asia and i ntroductory cultural anthropology courses. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Tami Blumenfield\, PhD
Thi
s talk discusses intersections between artists and filmmakers from
Europe\, South Korea\, and Japan in a small ethnic minority community in
the foothills of the Himalayas. The Na who live there attract the
\;imagination of outsiders for their perceived sexual freedom and th
eir \;egalitarian gender system. After over a decade of tourism and m
edia \;production focused on their community\, a digital media traini
ng course \;I organized in collaboration with the Moso Folk Museum he
lped local \;people amplify their own voices in the representational
cacophony. \;After the training ended\, Archei traveled to Beijing to
create a film \;about a Dutch woman who purchased part of a Na famil
y's house as part \;of her own artistic imaginings. This film then sc
reened at an \;international film festival held in Kunming\, China. D
espite its \;enthusiastic reception\, Archei declined to pursue distr
ibution. In \;this talk\, I analyze his decision and its implications
for \;community-based media production more broadly.
Ta
mi received her PhD from the University of \;Washington in 2010. Her
dissertation\, Scenes from Yongning: Media \;Creation in China's Na V
illages\," discussed a collaborative media \;project that involved a
community film festival and ethnographies of
media production. She
is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the \;Sociology &\; Anthropo
logy Department and currently teaches Gender in \;Asia and introducto
ry cultural anthropology courses.