Association for Qualitative Research Seminar

The AQR is presenting the following Seminar:

Ethnocinema: Representation and Intercultural Collaboration

Presenters: Anne Harris and Nyadol Nyuon

When: Monday 3rd May 2010

Time: 5.30pm – 7.00pm

Where: Chamber at John Scott Meeting House

Bundoora Campus, La Trobe University

Parking: Go to car park 7

Cost: Free for AQR members, $20 for non members and $10

for non-member students (incl. GST)

RSVP Anne Harris - Anne.Harris@vu.edu.au

This seminar presents and interrogates a series of short films made collaboratively by the researcher and 16 Sudanese Australian young women from refugee backgrounds during 2008-2009, a qualitative doctoral research project entitled Cross-Marked: Sudanese Australian Young Women Talk Education. The films examine the prevailing social conditions for connectedness/ disconnectedness in the context of sometimes-hostile educational contexts. The films utilise the emerging practice of ethnocinema as an arts-based methodology, performative ethnography (Denzin, 2003) which disrupts conventional stories of the pedagogies of belonging and becoming. The films draw upon the co-creators’ social practices of self to trouble gendered, classed and racialised narratives of identity and they offer a territory of possibility for travelling along disorienting lines of flight (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987).

About the presenters

Anne Harris is a Lecturer in Creativity and the Arts in Victoria University’s School of Education. She is also a writer, videographer and Artistic Associate of Pumphouse Theatre (Melbourne). Nyadol Nyuon is a community development worker and activist and has been instrumental in the Lost Boys Association of Australia since arriving in Melbourne in 2005.

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