Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Just Images: Ethics and Chinese Documentary
The Fairbank Center at Harvard University will hold a conference on ethics and Chinese documentary.
When:
April 30, 2011 9:00am to 5:00pm
Where
9:45 am Opening Remarks
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Panel 1: Can the Subaltern Speak on Camera
Between Private and Public: Documenting Prostitution in Contemporary China
Carlos Rojas, Duke University
Victims vs. Activists: Two Approaches to AIDS Villages
Ying Qian, Harvard University
In Contact with Responsibility: Physical Attacks in Chinese Documentary
Qi Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aftershock and 1428 (tentative)
Eileen Chow, Duke University
Discussant: Zhong Xueping, Tufts University
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Panel 2: Subjects and Objects
Documentary Apathy and Sympathy: Liu Xiaodong between Canvas and Camera
Eugene Wang, Harvard University
Documentary Opacity
William Schaefer, University of Rochester
Documentarizing Fiction: Sascha Pohle's Reframing the Artist, Made in Dafen Village
Winnie Wong, Harvard University
Asylum: The photographs of Lu Nan
Claire Roberts, Australian National University/Harvard-Yenching Institute
Discussant: Toby Lee, Harvard University
3:15 pm-4:45 pm
Panel 3: Contact Zones
Voicing the Queer Subject in Contemporary Chinese Documentary
Luke Robinson, University of Nottingham
Subject to Movement: Wu Wenguang and the Ethics of Self-Othering
Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego
“Just Images” of the Cultural Revolution: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo and Ivens/Loridan’s How Yukong Moved the Mountains
Jie Li, Harvard University
Discussant: Carma Hinton, George Mason University
5:00 pm-6:00 pm Roundtable Discussion
Phone Number:
(617) 495-4046
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