Tess Thackara
dal 25/9/2011 al 25/9/2011
Segnalato da
25/9/2011
Tess Thackara
Bartos Theater, Cambridge
Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change history. Lecture
Tess Thackara, Director, Survival International (USA): "Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change history". Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Associate Professor, MIT (USA). This lecture explores the work and methodology of human rights group Survival International, with a particular focus on the group's efforts to generate a groundswell of support for tribal people all over the world. Using Survival films and campaigns as case studies, the lecture will focus on the need to popularize the narrative surrounding indigenous land rights. The "Zones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions - Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisis Fall" 2011 lecture series investigates initiatives and modes of intervention in contested spaces, zones of conflict, or areas affected by environmental disasters. The intention is to explore whether artistic interventions can transform, disrupt or subvert current environmental, urban, political and social conditions in critical ways.