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/