ONLINE: Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia
Mar 11, 2021 4:00 PM
press release: This lecture will be given over Zoom: REGISTER HERE.
Focusing on language and media in eastern Siberia,
Mixed Messages (Cornell University Press, 2020) engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use. The book demonstrates that language and the production, circulation, and consumption of media are practices by which residents of the region perform and negotiate competing possible identities. What languages should be used in newspapers, magazines, or radio and television broadcasts, and by whom? What kinds of publics are and are not possible through media? How exactly do discourses move into, out of, and through the media to affect everyday social practices? In this book talk, Kathryn Graber will address these questions through her ethnography of the Russian Federationâs Buryat t
NOW Magazine
NFB Ontario Studio: Ahead of the Curve
Sponsored feature: National Film Board of Canada By NOW Staff
Canadians have been turning to plenty of streaming services to give ourselves a break from the pandemic.
The National Film Board Of Canada would like to remind you that it, too, has a streaming site: NFB.ca, which offers over 4,000 award-winning documentaries, auteur-animated films and interactive works from the organization’s 82-year history – the vast majority of which are available free – as part of its mandate to creatively represent all regions of the country.
Quite a few of those productions come out of the NFB’s Ontario Studio, which has also positioned itself over the past decade as a leading supporter of diverse filmmakers.
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National storytelling week );
Everyone has a story to tell and museums and libraries are bursting with them
Highlights of West Berkshire Museum Collection
The Stories We Tell
WEST Berkshire Museum remains closed to the public for now. However, a new exhibition called The Stories We Tell will be launched when the museum reopens.
It will display folklore stories relating to places and people of West Berkshire and will also include objects that have a connection to local folklore events or with a legendary or mythological narrative. The exhibition will explore the relationship between fact and fiction and truths and untruths within stories. A few of the objects on display will include a modern Hand of Glory, a Festival of Flowers programme and some shoes found beneath floorboards.