Diversity in Place: Making Documentaries on the Multicultural City
April 24th, 2009
Website: http://diversityinplace.wordpress.com
More than half of the population in the world now lives in cities, and
the urban share of the globe will continue to increase dramatically to
reach 70 percent by 2050. Migration, both from within and among
societies, is a major source of urbanization, with multicultural cities
on the rise everywhere.
Call for Documentary Film/Video Entries
In an innovative way toward mutual learning, we invite the submission of
video and photo documentaries whose emphasis is on exploring
multicultural cities and processes of place-making. Scholars, teachers,
students and practitioners alike are searching for alternative methods
to conventional data analysis and academic writing to be able to capture
ethnic diversity and multicultural interactions in real world settings.
The use of documentaries to show the daily practices of
multiculturalism in the city can make several key contributions to
research, teaching and action.
Videos not in excess of 15 minutes are requested for submission to
screenings which will be held at the conference venue at the University
of Hawai'i Manoa Campus on April 24th, 2009. Selections of videos to be
included in the seminar will be made by a committee of students and
faculty who are organizing the event. Artists, video- and filmmakers,
researchers, writers and others interested in the relation between
people and places and the making of multicultural cities are invited to
join the project, participate to the seminar to discuss their ideas and
work.
Questions, themes, topics and issues to be addressed in the
documentaries can include, but are not limited to:
* How documentaries by recoding the presence of people of different
origins over time can reveal 'invisible' minority cultures in a way that
no other media can.
* The efforts at historic preservation of elements of the city that
might otherwise have been overlooked but are of high cultural value to
members of a community.
* How multiculturalism can work well in practice and thus
contribute to a more positive attitude about and pride in the
multicultural city, and thereby assist in fostering mutual accommodation
and tolerance.
* In an age of global migration in which significant segments of
multicultural cities do not have citizenship or are otherwise
marginalized in the city, how documentaries can help identify issues of
social justice.
* How multiculturalism inscribes itself into the city by everyday
uses of urban space and lead us to a greater appreciation of the many
different identities that make up the multicultural Cosmopolis of
contemporary times.
By combining the reflections and findings emerging around the objectives
of the conference, and understanding the inevitability of increasing
diversity in urban places, this conference aims at drawing lessons and
recommendations as to what makes the creation of ethnic spaces possible,
and further what helps to form and shape livable cities with healthy
intercultural relations, namely, cities as multicultural places where
migrants' place-making is understood and acknowledged as an inherent
human right to the city.
This conference is sponsored by the Student Equity, Excellence and
Diversity Initiative (SEED), University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
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