All welcome to two seminars with Karsten Krueger

    13 February 2018

    The Department of Culture and Media Studies and the Department of Language Studies has invited Karsten Krueger, researcher at the Center for Global Studies (CGS), the College of Liberal Arts University of Shantou, China, which will host two seminars next week.

    Tuesday February 20 at 3.15 pm to 5 pm, at The Humanities Building, HB206

    Global Ecocinema / Chinese Ecocinema – reflections on human ecology and the environmental crisis in the anthroposcene

    The seminar works as a general introduction to the field of ecocinema before moving into an overview of Chinese independent film with a focus on environmental documentary, and a discussion about the work of Wang Bing and Zhang Yuan, especially the latter's 2015 film Behemoth.

    Wendsday February 21 at 1 pm to 3 pm, at The Humanities Building, HC212

    'Chaoshan heritage – between the global and the local' – from the 19th/20th century treaty port photography to 21st century glocal chaosan digital archives

    This seminar concerns the development of repositories and databases of visual sources of the Chaoshan Culture in North-Eastern Guangdong Province, China. It starts with the G. Warren Swire collection and the R.F.C. Hedgeland collection of still photography (part of The Chinese Maritime Customs Collection).

    It then moves on to the Shantou University Library Chaoshan Special Collections Digital Archive, focusing on The Shantou Treaty Port Multi-Media Digital Resource Archive (Still Photography Archive, Oral History Resources, Film+ Video Resources) which is a joint research project between the Center for Global Studies (CGS) and the Shantou University Library, within the Digital Humanities field.

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