{"666760":{"#nid":"666760","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Diaspora in Recent Film from the Spanish Caribbean","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIdentity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact, which the new cultural practices then represent, we should think, instead, of identity as a \u201cproduction,\u201d within, not outside, representation.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E- Stuart Hall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his influential 1996 essay \u201cCultural Identity and Diaspora,\u201d Jamaican-born theorist Stuart Hall described the power of \u201ca new cinema of the Caribbean\u201d to reflect, refract, and enact new conceptions of identity among citizens of the region and their diasporas around the world. In the years since, migration has solidified its centrality as \u201ca constant motif in Caribbean history,\u201d to quote Hall\u2019s words elsewhere. This has reinforced the need for filmmakers to continue engaging diaspora, migration, and exile as not only cornerstones of the region\u2019s past and present, but also sites from which to convene new publics, preserve cultural memory, and imagine alternate futures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBringing together film scholars, curators, and filmmakers, this symposium applies Hall\u2019s questions about the relationship between cinema and representation to recent cinematic production from the Spanish Caribbean and its global diasporas. How, we ask, are contemporary filmmakers from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico\u2014whether on their respective islands or residing abroad\u2014contending with diaspora as subject of their work, as site of production, and\/or as intended audience? What platforms are they leveraging, or creating, to do so? In asking these questions, we follow Hall\u2019s call to understand film \u201cnot as a second-order mirror held up to reflect what already exists, but as that form of representation which is able to constitute us as new kinds of subjects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENOTE: This symposium will be presented in both English and Spanish.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"basic_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBringing together film scholars, curators, and filmmakers, this symposium looks at recent cinematic production from the Spanish Caribbean and its global diasporas through the lens of the relationship between cinema and representation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESupported by the Atlanta Global Studies Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"basic_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A symposium on recent cinematic production from the Spanish Caribbean and its global diasporas."}],"uid":"36444","created_gmt":"2023-03-22 21:38:25","changed_gmt":"2023-03-22 21:41:57","author":"sminson3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-03-28T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-03-28T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-03-28T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-03-28 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-03-28 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-03-28 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Virtual","extras":[],"hg_media":{"670240":{"id":"670240","type":"image","title":"Diaspora in Film","body":null,"created":"1679520631","gmt_created":"2023-03-22 21:30:31","changed":"1679520713","gmt_changed":"2023-03-22 21:31:53","alt":"Conference banner","file":{"fid":"253071","name":"Diaspora.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/03\/22\/Diaspora.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/03\/22\/Diaspora.png","mime":"image\/png","size":465382,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/03\/22\/Diaspora.png?itok=O--ZCkIX"}}},"media_ids":["670240"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/diaspora-in-recent-film-from-the-spanish-caribbean-tickets-558905460277?fbclid=IwAR2xRg_AlFnAQxXaUJDpieyG0GaGWI5xXoztjCs1EpKaSqKvzhYCVaUv0Po","title":"Full details here"}],"groups":[{"id":"612000","name":"Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}