Revitalization of Indigenous Knowledge and Challenges in Contemporary Taiwan: A Case Study of Three Indigenous Documentary Filmmakers
- When:
- October 31, 2018
- Time:
- 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
- Category:
- Lecture
- Location:
- Human and Social Development (HSD) Building, room A240
- Details:
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About the talk:
Based on reflexive approaches and investigations with regard to three key Taiwanese Indigenous documentary filmmakers – Mayaw Biho (Pangcah), Pilin Yapu (Atayal) and Chang Shu-Lan (Tao) - this presentation focuses on how they reframe Indigenous knowledge and challenge settler colonial ways of seeing and representing through filmmaking and their social engagements.
Film screening:
"Those Who Fly Against the Wind"
Year: 2013
Director: Skaya Siku
Duration: 46 mins
Tricia Yi-Chun Lin is a Fullbright Visiting Scholar at the College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, and Professor & Director of the Women's Studies Program at Southern Connecticut State University.
Skaya Siku is a Visual Anthropologist and Post Doctoral Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Contact:
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Jonathan Woods
commcapi@uvic.ca