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SUMMARY:DIGITAL MEDIA, NEW CINEMAS, AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
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 DIGITAL MEDIA, NEW CINEMAS, AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH\n
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 Exploring 
 the creative and tactical integration 
 of digital media and new technologies 
 in the global south\n
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 FREE TO THE PUBLIC\n
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 Digital 
 media has changed the everyday lives 
 of millions of people worldwide, however 
 the focus on these recent technological developments 
 tends to emphasize the lives of those 
 in first-world nations.\n
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 How is it that digital 
 media, mobile technologies, and new cinematic 
 forms of representation have changed the 
 production and experience of art, economies, 
 and culture in the global south?\n
 Focusing 
 on contemporary developments in digital media, 
 and especially film and the arts, this symposium 
 will explore the creative and tactical 
 integration of digital media and new technologies 
 through diverse topics such as:\n
 New African 
 cinema, Media creation and distribution 
 in Southeast Asia and South America, and Films 
 that engage a minoritarian viewpoint regardless 
 of geopolitical origins.\n
 A three-day event, 
 the symposium begins formally with a film 
 screening on the Michigan State University 
 campus at 8:00 pm, Thursday, presented by the 
 filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya). Two days of 
 panels and speakers will follow Friday at MSU, 
 and Saturday at the University of Michigan.\n
 Outline 
 of events:\n
 April 3, Thursday Evening: 
 Global Film Series/Film Collective Screening 
 at MSU\n
 April 4, Friday-Day: Symposium at 
 Michigan State University, East Lansing\n
   
        -Evening: Performance at the Eli and Edythe 
 Broad Art Museum\n
 April 5, Saturday: Symposium 
 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor\n
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 Full 
 Schedule of Events: \n
 April 3, Michigan 
 State University\n
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 8pm - Film Screenings: 
 Pumzi (2009), From a Whisper (2009). Speaker: 
 Wanuri Kahiu (Skype discussion after films).\n
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 April 
 4, Michigan State University\n
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 9:15am-11:00am - Latin American and South Asian 
 Cinema and Media. Speakers: Courtney Donoghue, 
 Oakland University. Dennis Hanlon, University 
 of St Andrews. Catherine Benamo, UC Irvine.\n
  
  11:15am-1:00pm - North African, African, 
 Middle Eastern, and US Minorities Media. 
 Speakers: Peter Limbrick, UCSC. Mary Beltran, 
 University of Texas. Jo Ellen Fair, University 
 of Wisconsin.\n
   2:00pm-3:45pm - South Asian 
 Cinema and Media. Speakers: Swarnavel Pillai, 
 Michigan State University. Amit Rai, University 
 of London, Queen Mary. Anastup Basu, 
 University of Illinois.\n
   4:00pm-5:00pm - Keynote 
 Address: "Recycling modernity: Pirate 
 electronic cultures in India." Speaker: 
 Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing 
 Societies, Delhi.\n
   7:00pm - Artist 
 talk: Emeka Ogboh. Conversation with Yesomi 
 Umolu, Broad MSU Assistant Curator, Eli and 
 Edythe Broad Art Museum.\n
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 April 5, University 
 of Michigan \n
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 9:30am-11:00am - The Cinematic 
 Self. Speakers: Jean Marie Teno, Filmmaker, 
 Cameroon. Melissa Thackway, Film critic / 
 author, France. \n
   11:15am-1:15pm - Cinematic 
 Sites. Speakers: Nilo Couret, University of 
 Michigan. Fernando, Arenas, University of Michigan. 
 Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan. 
 Onookome Okome, University of Alberta. \n
  
  1:30pm-3:45pm - Film Screening: Grey Matter 
 (2012). Speaker: Kivu Ruhorahoza, Director, writer 
 and producer, Rwanda.\n
   4:00pm-6:00pm 
 - Cinematic Screens. Speakers: Beti Ellerson, 
 Director of the Center for the Study and Research 
 of African Women in Cinema. Carmela Garritano, 
 University of St. Thomas St Paul, MN. 
 Mary Ellen Higgins, Penn State University.\n
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 Price: FREE\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Tina Newhauser\n
 Contact phone: 517.432.1561\n
 Contact email: newhause@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.cal.msu.edu/global-south\n
LOCATION:Various at MSU and U-M Ann Arbor
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