InDigital Latin America Conference

Program

 

2015 Program

Thursday, March 26th

4:00 – 6:00 pm Registration – Sarratt Gallery
4:30 – 6:00 pm Opening Remarks followed by Reception – Sarratt Gallery
6:00 – 8:00 pm Showing of Kayapó film clips and Q and A with Krakrax Kayapó, Bepunu Kayapó, Kiamiete Metuktire, Dr. Terence Turner, and Dr. Glenn Shepard –Jean and Alexander Heard Library Community Room

Friday, March 27th

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration and Coffee
9:30 – 9:50 am Erica Wortham – Going Digital: Building Community Media Archives
9:50 – 10:10 am Pirjo Kristiina Virtanem – Mundane Social Media Among Young Indigenous People in Brazilian Amazonia
10:10 – 10:30 am Vanessa Fajans-Turner – The Projects of the Avatar Alliance Foundation
10:30 – 11:00 am Break
11:00 – 11:20 am Jonathan Hill – “Then he started walking again”: A Mytho-Historical Perspective on Indigenous Uses of New Media
11:20 – 11:40 am Louis Forline – Imagineering Indigenous Futures: Some Reflecting on Indigenous Use of Digital Media
11:40 – 12:00 pm Claudia Augustat – Notes from the Contact Zone: Ethnographic Museum, Indigenous People and Digital Media
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 1:50 pm Laurel Smith – Suturing Transborder Communities: A Story about Art, Advocacy and Visualizations of Place
1:50 – 2:10 pm Suzanne Oakdale – Kawaiwete Memories of Film and Photography in Brazilian “Pacification” Missions
2:10 – 2:30 pm Mario Murillo – National Culture, Indigenous Voice: Coming Full Circle in Colombian Radio
2:00 – 3:30 pm Roundtable discussion: The meaning and value of Indigenous media at home and abroad: The Kayapó case. Participants: Kiamiete Metuktire, Krakrax Kayapó, Bepunu Kayapó, Terence Turner, and Glenn H. Shepard
6:00 – 7:00 pm Keynote talk with Dr. Faye Ginsburg

Saturday, March 28th

10:30 – 10:50 am Glenn H. Shepard – Kaya-Pop: Digital Media, Modernity, and the Warrior Ethos among the Mebengokre-Kayapó of Brazil
10:50 – 11:10 am Laura Graham – Transformations of Indigenous Media: The Life and Work of David Hernández Palmar
11:10 – 11:30 am Ingrid Ramón Parra – Making Media: Gendered and Generational Shifts in Kayapó Digital Worlds
11:30 – 11: 50 am Livia Stone – Romper el Cerco: An Ethnography of Transnational Collaborative Film
11:50 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 1:50 pm Antonio C. La Pastina – The Indigenous as Other in Mainstream Brazilian TV
1:50 – 2:10 pm Richard Pace – Electronic and Digital Media among the Kayapó of Turedjam: An Audience Ethnography in Amazônia
2:10-2:30 pm Jamie Shenton – (Tele)Visions of the Future: Individualism versus Intimacy in Emerging Kichwa Media Markets
2:30 -3:30 pm Concluding Comments and Discussions – Conference Close