Organizer: Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University

Type/Location: In person / Ithaca, NY

Description:

“The Shadow Image: Transnational Southeast Asian Feminist Practices and Pedagogies” will explore the possibilities of Southeast Asian feminist practices and pedagogies through a discussion of transnational Indonesian and Vietnamese experimental documentaries, Children of Srikandi (Children of Srikandi Collective, 2012) and Surname Viet Given Name Nam (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989). Exploding the documentary form and subverting representation, these works activate a poetics of collaboration and generate what Lasmana calls a shadow imagination, enabling new ways of articulating marginalized women's lives beyond the specter of the nation.

About the Speaker

Viola Lasmana is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow / South and Southeast Asian American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. At Rutgers, she is also affiliated with Global Asias and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Viola is a scholar and teacher working at the intersections of transpacific studies, Asian American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and global digital humanities, with an emphasis on literature, film, and media arts. She is currently completing a book, Shadow Imaginations: Transpacific Approaches to Post-1965 Indonesian Archives, on the reconstitution of Indonesia’s decimated cultural archive. Her work has appeared in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, Film Quarterly, make/shift: feminisms in motion, The Cine-Files, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Visual Anthropology, Computers and Composition, and Interdisciplinary Humanities. Viola has previously taught in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and Media Arts and Culture at Occidental College. She received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California, with a certificate in Digital Media and Culture from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon PhD Fellowship in Digital Humanities.

Registration:

To register, click here.