Documentary Studies
The purpose of this working group is to examine the link between documentary work and traditional scholarship and to create a space where an interdisciplinary group of thinkers and practitioners, from UIC and beyond, can regularly come together to share work, exchanges ideas, and expand the boundaries of their practice.
Organizers:
Cynthia M. Blair,
African American Studies and History
Michelle Boyd,
African American Studies and Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
Heather Radke,
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
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Events
A Film Screening and Discussion of History and Documentary Craft featuring filmmakers:
Gordon Quinn, Director
Tracye Matthews, co-Producer
Rachel Dickson, Associate Producer and Outreach Coordinator
Moderated by Elizabeth Todd-Breland
Campus Address: Gallery 400
’63 Boycott is a short documentary and transmedia project by Kartemquin Films that chronicles the Chicago Public School Boycott of 1963, when more than 200,000 Chicagoans, mostly students, marched to protest the segregationist policies of CPS Superintendent Benjamin Willis, who placed mobile school units on playgrounds and parking lots as a “permanent solution” to overcrowding in black schools.
As part of the series “Making Truths,” film director Gordon Quinn and producers Tracye Matthews and Rachel Dickson will discuss the 1963 Boycott and the use of documentary film as a way to make history. We will watch the entire film and use it as a starting point to explore how black youth have endeavored to change the course of history.
The Documentary Studies Working Group at the UIC Institute for the Humanities explores the interplay between storytelling and scholarship and considers the potential of both to convey the complexity, authenticity, and emotion of ideas. Our 2014-2015 speaker series showcases exemplary documentary work in multiple formats, explores their relationships to traditional scholarship, and considers its potential contribution to struggles for social justice.
JOIN US for a multi-media exploration of documentary and scholarship as we seek to understand how to tell complex stories that touch on critical social justice issues.
Events
Making Truths: Conversations Between Scholars & Documentarians: Little War on the Prairie
Speakers include John Biewen and Patricia Norby
Date(s): Wednesday, 11/13 6:30 PM to Wednesday, 11/13 7:30 PM
Campus Address: Residents’ Dining Hall , Jane Addams Hull House Museum
Registration required: https://littlewar.eventbrite.com
The UIC Institute for the Humanities’ Documentary Studies Working Group & the Third Coast International Audio Festival present,
“Little War on the Prairie” with
John Biewen, Audio Program Director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Producer of the Little War on the Prairie
Patricia Norby, Assistant Director, The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library
Moderated by Lisa Yun Lee, Director, School of Art & Art History
In December of 1862, the US government carried out the largest mass execution in its history, hanging thirty-eight Dakota Indians on President Lincoln’s orders after a war with white settlers in Minnesota. Join us for an multi-media exploration of documentary and scholarship as we reflect on this event, and seek to understand how to tell complex stories that touch on critical social justice issues.
As part of the series “Making Truths,” documentarian John Biewen and scholar Patricia Norby will discuss the Dakota War, as well as the forms they use to explore history. We will listen to portions of the award-winning audio documentary “Little War on the Prairie,” and use it as a starting point to explore how U.S. government atrocities against Native Americans have been hidden, denied, and forgotten.
About “Making Truths”
The Documentary Studies Working Group at the UIC Institute for the Humanities explores the interplay between storytelling and scholarship and considers the potential of both to convey the complexity, authenticity, and emotion of ideas. Our 2013-2014 speaker series showcases exemplary documentary work in multiple formats, explores their relationships to traditional scholarship, and considers its potential contribution to struggles for social justice.
Event wetsite: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/_programsevents/_upcomingevents/_2013/11_nov/_mt/mt.html