CHASS

Arctic Visions: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Thursday, November 19, 2009

1:00 Film Screening (1128 Interdisciplinary Bldg)
3:00 - 4:00 Roundtable Discussion (1113 Interdisciplinary Bldg)
4:00 - 5:00 Reception (1113 Interdisciplinary Bldg)

Speakers:

• Michael Bravo
  Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University
• Adriana Craciun
  English, UC Riverside and Faculty Organizer
• Nelson Graburn
  Anthropology, UC Berkeley
• Jonathan King
  Keeper of the Collections, British Museum
• Michelle Raheja
  English, UC Riverside

Join us for a screening and discussion of the new film by the award-winning director of Atanarjuat/The Fast Runner. This roundtable symposium brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the new film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006, Dir. Kunuk & Cohn) from one of the world’s leading innovators in
indigenous filmmaking, Isuma Films.

Queries: Adriana Craciun (adrianac@ucr.edu)

The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UC Riverside Department of English and Center for Ideas and Society.