This presentation will highlight the intersection of gender and photographic consumption and production during the early twentieth century in Japan. Japanese camera companies like Konishi Honten (today's Konica Minolta) deployed state of the art...
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s white supremacist government ran an art school at Ndaleni for the training of black art teachers. It was by far the single largest art school on the African continent during the years of its operation. This talk...
Exhibit It has become something of an academic fashion in the last decade or so to bring China and India, these two "Asian" giants and fast-growing global economies, into the same comparative framework. These acts of comparison have generally...
For the secular citizen-artist of our times, is the inheritance of the twentieth century a burden to be overcome, or a gift to be embraced? Iconic Interruptions explores this question with the help of some select works of Indian artist Gigi...
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
LOCATION: Frank Porter Graham Elementary. Spanish w/ English subtitles. With the presence of filmmaker Walter Tournier. Four short films Tournier (Uruguay) 2012. >>> Chatarra (2015) 5 minutes; Alto el Juego (2016) 6 minutes; El Jefe y el...
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Spanish w/ English subtitles. Cary Fukonagua (Honduras, Mexico, USA), 2009. >>> Honduran teenager, Sayra, reunites with her father. seeing an opportunity for her to realize her dream of a life in the U.S., Moving to Mexico is the first...
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Spanish w/ English subtitles. With presence of the filmmaker, Sandra Luz López Barroso. (Honduras, Mexico, USA), 2009. >>> Artemio was born in North Carolina, U.S.A. Now he lives in a small town in la Costa Chica in Guerrero with his...
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
LOCATION: SILVERSPOT CINEMA. RESERVE TICKETS AT THE LINK! Spanish w/ English subtitles. Pablo Larrain (Chile). 2016. 107min. >>> It's 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile. In Congress, Senator Pablo Neruda accuses the government of...
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
