Sawyer Seminar Session Number Two: Introduction
(Image by Cecil Stoughton, White House Press Office) The first session of Indiana University’s 2016/2017 Sawyer Seminar, “Documentary and...
Sawyer Seminar Session Number Two: Seeing the "Human" in Human Rights
For Mark Gibney, a political scientist and international human rights lawyer, discussions about human rights tend to abstract the “human”...
Sawyer Seminar Session Two: Public Spheres and Popular Memories
Gibney’s expansive understanding of human rights media and Sauper’s investment in a dialogical relay between spectators and filmmaker...
Sawyer Seminar Session Number One: Mueda, memória e massacre (Mueda, memory and massacre) (1978)
Mueda, memória e massacre (Mueda, memory and massacre) (1978) Mozambique’s National Institute of Cinema Billed as the first Mozambican...
Sawyer Seminar Session Number One: National Culture and Post-Colonial Subjectivity
The imperative to form new national cultures and subjectivities out of the transition from the colonial to the post-colonial order inform...
Sawyer Seminar Session Number One: Empire’s Institutions & Documentary Economies
In “Documentary and the Long Twentieth Century,” Lee Grieveson examined how the cinema was enmeshed with the global expansion of...
Sawyer Seminar Session Number One: Introduction
The 20th century witnessed the disintegration of the 19th century’s imperialist order, a global transformation whose manifold effects...
