MEDIATING PRACTICES 
New directions in visual anthropology and cross-cultural mediamaking

This weeklong festival at Temple University engages the question, what next? in the arts and praxis of cultural representation. The festival includes screenings, lectures, and a daylong symposium of scholars and mediamakers. The event is free and open to the public.

 


Photo: Waiting for a procession (Ghana 1992)

Panelists and Mediamakers


Kelly Askew (University of Michigan)
Rebecca Baron (CalArts)
Michel Brault (Nanouk Films)
Kathy Brew (Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival)
Tim Corrigan (University of Pennsylvania)
Lucien Taylor (Harvard University)
Philip Alperson (Temple-CLA)
Roderick Coover (Temple-SCT)
Paul Garrett (Temple-CLA)
Paul Stoller (Temple-CLA)
Jayasinhji Jhala (Temple-CLA)
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon (Temple-SCT)

 
... and more
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Additional participating faculty include Deans C. Stewart and T. Jacobson, Chairs C. Weitz and  W. Bass, Profs. N. Carroll, F. Darling-Wolf, S. Gauch, O. Gaycken, G. Gray, P. Joshi, and J. Rush.

TUESDAY 4/11

WEDNESDAY 4/12

THURSDAY 4/13

FRIDAY 4/14

12:30-5:30PM
GAVA Forum: Papers In Visual Research
Moderator: Paul Garrett
KIVA AUDITORIUM

2:30-5:00
Special screening and conversation with guest filmmaker Michel Brault
ANNENBERG HALL, ROOM 3

2:30-4:30
"Poetry And Performance"
K. Williams-Witherspoon
Room 200C, SAC annex

6:00-9:00PM
Special screening and conversation with guest filmmaker Kathy Brew.
ANNENBERG HALL, ROOM 3

1:00 -4:00PM
SYMPOSIUM
Speakers K. Askew, R. Baron, M. Brault, K. Brew, L. Taylor, P. Stoller, J. Jhala, R. Coover. Moderated by Dean P. Alperson
WALK AUDITORIUM
(Rittner-Annex)

4:15-6:00PM
Festival Screening
Short works by K. Askew, R. Baron, M. Brault, K. Brew, L. Taylor, R. Coover
WALK AUDITORIUM

4:15 -6:45PM
Faculty Workshop

11:40AM-2:10PM
Special screening and conversation with guest filmmaker Kelly Askew
GLADFELTER HALL, ROOM 240

2:00-5:00 PM
Bollywood Screening
Presented by J. Jhala
KIVA AUDITORIUM

2:30-5:30PM
Special screening and conversation with guest filmmaker Rebecca Baron
Respondant: Tim Corrigan
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar
ANNENBERG HALL, ROOM 3

12:40-1:30PM
Performance
K. Williams-Witherspoon
TOMLINSON THEATER 100

12:00-5:00PM
IPADE:New Films & Visual Media Student Festival. (GAVA)
Student Center 217c

 

Library: Visual Anthropology and Media Cultures Exhibition, All Week

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

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For more information contact:

Roderick Coover
Department of Film and Media Arts
Email:rcoover@temple.edu

Prof. Jayasinhji Jhala
Department of Anthropology
Email:jjhala@temple.edu

Phildelphia Film Society representative is Prof. Oliver Gaycken. Email: ogaycken@temple.edu.
Graduate Association of Visual Anthropology (GAVA) student representative is Courtney Stoll. Email: cstoll@temple.edu.

Sponsored by Temple University Graduate School, Temple University College of Liberal Arts, Temple University School of Communication, Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar (PCMS), Center for the Humanities at Temple, and the Department of Film and Media Arts.

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