[Daviscenter-list] **Tomorrow** (11/14): Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar, Kazakh Film and National Identity

CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS SEMINAR- Kazakh Film and National Identity, Nov. 14 Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar Kazakh Film and National Identity Seminar discussion of "Kazakh Film and National Identity" with Kazakh filmmaker Kenzhebai Dusembaev, Kazakh film critic Gulzhan Nauruzbaeva and Jane Knox-Voina (Bowdoin College). The presentation will feature excerpts from Kazakh films. The discussion will address how Kazakh filmmakers are implicated in national myth-making and ideological production that serve to delineate both otherness (from Russian culture, from the West) and legitimate selfhood in the "empty space or landscape left when the Communist State imploded from the center outward to all areas of the former Soviet Union. While "new wave" Kazakh films of the 1990s portray that empty space in the Kazakh villages, other film makers such as Kenzhebai Dusembaev and Rustem Abdrashev make it clear that the village still is a source of Kazakh culture and tradition. Tuesday, November 14 4:15-6:00 pm 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S-153 Harvard University Cambridge, MA * Please note change in location. Open to the public Sponsored by: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus/Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies 1730 Cambridge St., Suite 301, Cambridge, MA 02138 For further information, contact: Harvard Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus Tel: 617-496-2643 E-mail: centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu Web: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/