Work-in-Progress: Three Faculty Documentary Projects

Presentation of 3 projects in the Documentary Studies Work-in-Progress Series: Professor Jenny Lion's experimental documentary video is one of a series of video installation and cinematic works that explore landscape and sustained observation at sites of historical resonance. Professor Adam Rosenblatt joined a team of cultural and forensic anthropologists in a decade-plus investigation into how communities in northern Uganda are still impacted by mass graves and missing persons after decades-long conflict in the region and is creating a graphic ethnography to share their research. Professors Victoria Szabo and Augustus Wendell's project, "Documenting Racialized Infrastructure in Durham," seeks to gather oral histories from aging members of the Hayti community who lived through the highway development that cut through their neighborhoods in the 1950s and 60s. These witness memories will be catalogued and made available to through a searchable web-based interface. This event is free and open to the public, no registration required. This workshop and all others in the series are held in the CDS Bridges Auditorium (B007), 1317 W. Pettigrew Street.