Symposium: On Filmmaker Jay Rouch
Sunday 06 January, 2013
10am - 9pm, $0/Rsvp
New York University
721 Broadway, Floor 6
A symposium with scholars and filmmakers exploring the legacy of renowned French anthropologist/filmmaker Jean Rouch. This event was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy and was originally scheduled on November 2nd in conjunction with Here and Elsewhere: The Films of Jean Rouch, a two-part Rouch retrospective at the French Institute/Alliance Francaise and Anthology Film Archives, November, 2012.
Schedule:
10am: Welcome by Faye Ginsburg
10-12:30: Rouch, Archives, and Postcolonial Africa
Speakers: Steve Feld, Françoise Foucault, Inoussa Ousseïni, Paul Stoller
12:30-2pm: Lunch break
2-5pm: Global Rouch
Speakers: Paul Henley, Robert Stam, Mandy Rose, Sam Di Iorio, Zöe Graham, Jamie Berthe
7-9pm: Rouch and the Cinema of Niger
Screenings hosted by Inoussa Ousseïni
Bon Voyage Sim (1966) – Moustapha Alassane
Samba the Great (1977) – Moustapha Alassane
Baabu Banza: Nothing Goes to Waste (1984) – Mariama Hima
Paris, it’s Pretty (1974) – Inoussa Ousseïni
Panel Participants:
Jamie Berthe (NYU, Media, Culture, and Communication)
Sam Di Iorio (Hunter/CUNY, Department of French)
Steven Feld (University of New Mexico, Department of Music and Anthropology)
Françoise Foucault (Comité du film ethnographique, France)
Faye Ginsburg (NYU, Department of Anthropology)
Zoe Graham (NYU, Cinema Studies)
Paul Henley (Director, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, UK)
Inoussa Ousseïni (Niger’s Cultural Ambassador to UNESCO, filmmaker, and founder of Niger’s African Forum for Documentary Film, Niger)
Mandy Rose (University of the West of England, UK)
Robert Stam (NYU, Cinema Studies)
Paul Stoller (West Chester University, Department of Anthropology)
This event has been made possible by the generous support of NYU’s departments of Anthropology; Cinema Studies; French; Media, Culture & Communication; the Humanities Initiative; the Dean’s Office of Arts and Sciences; the Center for Media, Culture and History; the Institute of African American Affairs; Africana Studies; and the Hunter College Department of Romance Languages.
Schedule:
10am: Welcome by Faye Ginsburg
10-12:30: Rouch, Archives, and Postcolonial Africa
Speakers: Steve Feld, Françoise Foucault, Inoussa Ousseïni, Paul Stoller
12:30-2pm: Lunch break
2-5pm: Global Rouch
Speakers: Paul Henley, Robert Stam, Mandy Rose, Sam Di Iorio, Zöe Graham, Jamie Berthe
7-9pm: Rouch and the Cinema of Niger
Screenings hosted by Inoussa Ousseïni
Bon Voyage Sim (1966) – Moustapha Alassane
Samba the Great (1977) – Moustapha Alassane
Baabu Banza: Nothing Goes to Waste (1984) – Mariama Hima
Paris, it’s Pretty (1974) – Inoussa Ousseïni
Panel Participants:
Jamie Berthe (NYU, Media, Culture, and Communication)
Sam Di Iorio (Hunter/CUNY, Department of French)
Steven Feld (University of New Mexico, Department of Music and Anthropology)
Françoise Foucault (Comité du film ethnographique, France)
Faye Ginsburg (NYU, Department of Anthropology)
Zoe Graham (NYU, Cinema Studies)
Paul Henley (Director, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, UK)
Inoussa Ousseïni (Niger’s Cultural Ambassador to UNESCO, filmmaker, and founder of Niger’s African Forum for Documentary Film, Niger)
Mandy Rose (University of the West of England, UK)
Robert Stam (NYU, Cinema Studies)
Paul Stoller (West Chester University, Department of Anthropology)
This event has been made possible by the generous support of NYU’s departments of Anthropology; Cinema Studies; French; Media, Culture & Communication; the Humanities Initiative; the Dean’s Office of Arts and Sciences; the Center for Media, Culture and History; the Institute of African American Affairs; Africana Studies; and the Hunter College Department of Romance Languages.