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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">Film in the Colony Symposium: New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, 1890s to 1940s</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, University of Otago, and Ng</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">Taonga
Sound and Vision, Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">13-14 July 2017, with screenings 12 July (colonial-era) and 15 July (contemporary)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">The early decades of cinema (1890s to 1940s) coincide with the late colonial periods of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. In each colony, films were made about indigenous peoples,
and their relationships with settlers. Some were historical films; others documented, or capitalised on, indigenous life by drawing on legends or scenes of traditional life; others developed fictional narratives. This symposium investigates the uses of locally-made
moving images, for colonies-becoming-nations, and for indigenous communities and their sense of cultural belonging.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">How did the involvement of indigenous peoples in the film-making process open out new understandings of collaboration, co-creativity and cross-cultural exchange? Did indigenous people
make their own films? What were the implications and outcomes of filming traditional stories on historical locations, or within contemporary communities? How were productions received by local audiences, then and now?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">For this symposium we invite papers that investigate the cross-cultural dimensions of film in the colonial context. We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds,
such as film studies, history, M</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">a?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">ori and/or indigenous studies, anthropology, archives, screen industries and communities.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">Speakers: Dame Professor Anne Salmond, Natalie Robertson (Auckland) Dr Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, Dr Litheko Modisane (Cape Town). Exhibiting: Lisa Reihana (Auckland)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';">Convenors: Annabel Cooper, Diane Pivac, with Honiana Love, Minette Hillyer, Jo Smith.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Oriya Sangam MN';"> Send a 200-word abstract to <span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:filminthecolony@otago.ac.nz">filminthecolony@otago.ac.nz</a> </span>by 25 March. For more information see: <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/crocc/film-in-the-colony-symposium">https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/crocc/film-in-the-colony-symposium</a>/ </span></span></p>
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