Kategorie: Veranstaltungen

The Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI), London/UK

December 7, 2022 / 5-7 pm GMT (UTC +-0) / 18:00h – 20:00h CET

https://www.therai.org.uk/events/events-calendar/eventdetail/816/-/rai-film-seminar-revisiting-nanook-at-100-years

(hybrid)

Speakers:

Kirk French, filmmaker and anthropology professor at Penn State University

Hugh Brody, acclaimed writer, anthropologist, and filmmaker.

Film screening: short film extract based on Kirk French’s work with the Nanook Centennial Committee in Inukjuak, Canada.

Venue: The Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI), 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

→ To join us in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-film-seminar-revisiting-nanook-at-100-years-tickets-475153987367

→ To join us on Zoom, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kduqhpzspHtYuMBL_d4AnlZy5lTP6Eoc3

To mark the centenary of Nanook of the North (1922) this seminar considers the legacy of one of the most important landmarks of documentary film history. What started as a collaborative effort of Robert Flaherty and the Inuit of Inukjuak (ᐃᓄᒃᔪᐊᒃ) in northern Quebec, Canada, eventually launched Flaherty’s career as the “father” of documentary film. Nanook started out with a hugely popular commercial release and decades followed of celebratory praise for the brilliance of its cinematography and extraordinary film-making process. However, the film has also become a lightning rod for critique and debate because of its “faked scenes”, imperial approach, paternalism and racial stereotypes that misrepresent the Inuit people and their way of life.

November 24, 2022

5pm CET

https://uhu.zoom.us/j/96990369651?pwd=UEV1eUpNS0FmU28xZXVueUFESGpkQT09#success

Thursday, November 17, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 p.m. Pacific Time
In Person at WWU or on Zoom

https://alumni.wwu.edu/event/home-away-home

WWU Center for Canadian-American Studies, the Institute for Global, Engagement, and the Ray Wolpow Institute, in partnership with the WWU Alumni Association.

Author and Canadian Studies consultant David Stewart will be discussing his memoir, True North, Down South. Using a Canadian émigré lens, the essay collection entertains and educates readers about immigrant and national identity, cultural misunderstandings, and belonging in the modern world. David Wayne Stewart is a „professional Canadian“ in California, helping Canadian tech clusters connect into the Bay Area ecosystem. He is a former „chairmoose“ of the Digital Moose Lounge, an association of Canadians in Silicon Valley, and the Advisory Board Chair of Canadian Studies at UC Berkeley. His essays have received awards in San Francisco’s Soul-Making Keats literary competition and have appeared in Potato Soup Journal, Bewildering Stories, and The Quiet Reader.

Veranstaltung der DKG Oberbayern in Kooperation mit dem Amerikahaus München

24. November 2022, 19 Uhr, Youtube Livestream

https://www.amerikahaus.de/ausstellungen-und-veranstaltungen/2022-11-24-johannes-mueller-gomez

2015 verpflichtete sich die Weltgemeinschaft mit dem Pariser Abkommen dazu, die Erderwärmung auf möglichst 1,5 Grad, maximal auf 2 Grad zu begrenzen – so auch Kanada. Zuletzt hob Premierminister Justin Trudeau die kanadischen Klimaziele mit dem Versprechen an, die heimischen Treibhausgase bis 2030 um 40 bis 45% unter das Niveau von 2005 zu senken. Während sich der kanadische Premier auf der internationalen Bühne als Teil der klimapolitischen Avantgarde sieht, reichen die bisher vom Bund und den Provinzen verabschiedeten Maßnahmen jedoch nicht aus, um sein Versprechen zu halten.

Der Vortrag soll einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der kanadischen Klimapolitik geben und herausarbeiten, inwieweit der kanadische Föderalismus eine Herausforderung für das Erreichen der kanadischen Klimaziele darstellt. Aus welchen Gründen verweigern sich einzelne Provinzen der Umsetzung des Pariser Abkommens? Welche Strategien nutzt Premierminister Trudeau, um diese Provinzen mit ins Boot zu holen? Und welche Chancen hat er in den letzten sechs Jahren dabei vertan?

Friday, November 25, 2022, 7:00 pm (CET)

Participation possible on site or via Zoom and livestream.

Fusing scholarly and artistic approaches, Dylan Robinson, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in the School of Music and a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) artist, curator and writer, and Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Cree/Halfbreed; German/Polish), award-winning singer/songwriter and interdisciplinary artist, will explore the manifold dimensions of sound art by North American Indigenous artists and Indigenous song. The evening will feature works by Raven Chacon, Rebecca Belmore and Tania Willard.

More information on the program and on registration: https://www.musicandminorities.org/lecture-2022/.