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September 15, 2021 | Race/Solidarity: Transpacific Conversations & Anthropology Colloquium Series present Uyghur Visions: Two Films by Mukaddas Mijit. Featuring filmmaker Dr. Mukaddas Mijit (via Zoom), in conversation with Professor Jenny Chio (East Asian Languages and Cultures/Anthropology). In this event, filmmaker Dr. Mukaddas Mijit will share two short films that reflect upon contemporary Uyghur identity in light of both shifting personal relationships and the devastating political transformations that have upended life for Uyghur communities around the globe. The films are followed by a Q&A with Dr. Mijit, facilitated by Professor Jenny Chio. Films:
Moman, The Great Woman (2012)
“The boy gave all three bread to the poor and didn’t keep any for himself. Then a snake flew out of his bag into the sky.”
--Rehime Kamal.
A video diary about my grandmother.
“Morning Feeling” and Perhat Tursun (2021).
A visual essay on a contemporary Uyghur poem about isolation, physical and psychological oppression.
January 16, 2020 | Hidden among Beijing’s northern mountain range, a replica of the Wyoming town of Jackson Hole promises to deliver the American dream to its several thousand Chinese residents. In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.
This screening is co-sponsored by the USC U.S.-China Institute, USC East Asian Studies Center, and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
November 29, 2018
September 16, 2015