The Conversation Series is a project that focuses on creating a dialogue with filmmakers, researchers, and teachers who examine the world through a cultural perspective. More specifically, the project brings to the surface voices and perspectives that are normally held to the margins of national and cultural grand narratives.
This video includes such reputable scholars as Arturo Escobar from the University of North Carolina, Meaghan Morris from Lingnan University, Ghassan Hage from the University of Sydney, Stephen Muecke from the Univeristy of Technology Sydney and Jodi Berland from York University.
This is a video of the keynote lecture given by distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Arturo Escobar, at the 2008 XRoads conference at the University of West-Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Internationally renowned scholar of cultural studies and popular
culture, Larry Grossberg’s work focuses primarily on popular music and the politics of youth
in the United States. He is also widely known for his research in the philosophy of communication and culture. Though his scholarship focused significantly throughout the 1980s and early 1990s on the politics of postmodernism, his more recent work explores the possibilities and limitations of alternative and emergent formations of modernity.
This video is a conversation by Nilesh Patel, a reputable Canadian indie filmmaker, about his documentary film, Brocket 99: Rockin’ the Country.
This video is a conversation by notable Australian filmmakers, including Don Featherstone, Ray Lawrence, Nick Parsons, Jo Dyer and Michael James Rowland. It also includes reputable film critic Peter Castaldi.
It was conducted by University of Ottawa professor Boulou Ebanda de B’béri’s research assistants Virginie Mesana and Peter Hogart.
