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Nanook

The event is presented by the Responsible Conduct of Research of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Media Studies department. In this event, we will screen and discuss the classical ethnographic documentary “Nanook of the North” from 1922 and will watch comparatively with the response film “Nanook Revisited” from 1988.  In this screening, we will first revisit the film and discuss the ethics of representation, the "salvage" fantasization of indigenous culture and the birth of documentary one century ago. In the following discussion, after 104 years, we ask about the unspeakability of indigeneity and the intrinsic paradox of visual ethnography diachronically. The discussion session features media studies grad students in film studies and anthropology faculty members in ethnographic ethics, and all are welcome to join the conversation. This event is free and open to the public, all undergraduate students and graduate students are welcome, especially those working on media representation, race and Indigenous studies, anthropology and film studies. FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE PROVIDED! Please contact anh9ry@virginia.edu for further inquiry.