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• 01 mar 2021

  Ixelles-Elsene

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia

  Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile

  PhD position in Asian Studies

  This Ph.D. position is funded by a MIS (Mandat d’Impulsion Scientifique/ Incentive Grant for Scientific Research) project: “Bearing Witness to Traumatic Experiences: Cultural Productions of Uyghurs in Exile”. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking people based at the border of Central Asia and the north-western part of China. Massive internments and arrests of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have taken place in the region since 2016, including the Uyghur elite. In these conditions, centers of the cultural production of the Uyghurs have shifted from their native land to the diaspora spread across the world. This project looks at Uyghur diasporic cultural production that aims at drawing the world’s attention and bearing witness to the various abuses perpetrated at home by the Chinese government. The whole project analyses selected poems, short films, video clips, and dance and music performances to tackle new transmedial forms of testimonies in the Uyghur case.

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• 15 jan 2021

  Beirut

  Call for papers - Representation

  Locating the Lost Archive of Arab Cinema

  This special issue asks how our histories of Arab cinema might change if we tackle the problem of Arab cinema’s lost archive(s). From most of the films made in Lebanon prior to 1975 to the cinemas of Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere, there are many reasons why films and their histories may have been lost to current memory. From structural and environmental issues and the lack of investment in proper storage facilities and maintenance.

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• 15 oct 2020	03 déc 2020	14 jan 2021
  11 fév 2021

  Paris

  Seminar - Representation

  Exoticisms in shot/countershot

  The creation, reception and circulation of the figures of otherness in fiction cinema

  Cet atelier, initié en 2018, se propose de réfléchir à la notion d’exotisme dans les films de fiction. Il est l’occasion de revenir aux textes conceptualisant cette notion (en peinture et en littérature notamment), et de les confronter à diverses cinématographies européennes ou extra-européennes. L’enjeu est de multiplier les points de vue dans une dynamique de champ-contrechamp, entre le « nous » et les « autres ». Nous tiendrons ensemble les deux faces de l’exotisme : il s’agit d’analyser la production d’exotisme par le cinéma occidental et de s’intéresser à ce qui se passe dans ces sociétés dites « exotiques » quand elles reçoivent la vision d’elles-mêmes proposée par ce même cinéma.

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