Inter-Asian Forum on Film Censorship (Part 3)

Description

Theory/Praxis/Politics is a webinar series working to advocate for and bring together perspectives of academics, filmmakers, programmers, civil servants, and other stakeholders with an interest in the question of censorship across Asia and its diasporas. We consider Asia as a productive site in which theory, practice, and politics overlap. The intersection allows us to question not only our understanding of censorship and the ways in which we engage with cinema in the region but also to reconsider the relationship between theory, aesthetics, and politics.

PANELISTS:
Thomas Chen – Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Lehigh University. His book Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers – An anonymous collective known as Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers filmed the award-winning Inside the Red Brick Wall (2020), focusing on the 13-day standoff between police and protesters at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University in November 2019.

MODERATORS:
Elizabeth Wijaya – Assistant Professor, Visual Studies and Cinema Studies Institute; Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Institute, Munk School, University of Toronto

Palita Chunsaengchan – Assistant Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota

Co-hosted by the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies and the Pan-Asian Seminar Series: The Political Life of Information at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota