Agenda 09 - 15 Februari 2014

The cinema of Morocco has had a revival in recent years: production is increasing, films are selected and win awards in international festivals. This new cinema has become an important aspect of contemporary Moroccan culture and it expresses adequately the ‘imaginaire’ of the country. To get a better grasp on and gain more insight in this, in each of seven lectures a Moroccan film will be viewed at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The film will be preceded or followed by a discussion between Moroccan French writers/directors and some other prominent speakers. They all address the contradictions of this time period; the acceleration of progress in juxtaposition with a traditional society.

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The cinema of Morocco has had a revival in recent years: production is increasing, films are selected and win awards in international festivals. This new cinema has become an important aspect of contemporary Moroccan culture and it expresses adequately the ‘imaginaire’ of the country. To get a better grasp on and gain more insight in this, in each of seven lectures a Moroccan film will be viewed at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The film will be preceded or followed by a discussion between Moroccan French writers/directors and some other prominent speakers. They all address the contradictions of this time period; the acceleration of progress in juxtaposition with a traditional society.

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The cinema of Morocco has had a revival in recent years: production is increasing, films are selected and win awards in international festivals. This new cinema has become an important aspect of contemporary Moroccan culture and it expresses adequately the ‘imaginaire’ of the country. To get a better grasp on and gain more insight in this, in each of seven lectures a Moroccan film will be viewed at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The film will be preceded or followed by a discussion between Moroccan French writers/directors and some other prominent speakers. They all address the contradictions of this time period; the acceleration of progress in juxtaposition with a traditional society.

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By prof. Henrik Vigh (Denmark): this paper builds on 15 years of fieldwork with the Aguentas, a militia of urban youth from the city of Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau. Contrary to common conceptions of youth, this generational position is not seen as a sought after and positive space of amusement and self-realisation in Bissau. Instead of being a space people seek to be included into it is a position to escape from, experienced as a belittling position of subjugation and servitude. The paper, shows how youth is experienced as a state of social truncation and focuses of the sometimes desperate – and often ill-fated – attempts of young men to move on in life.

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The cinema of Morocco has had a revival in recent years: production is increasing, films are selected and win awards in international festivals. This new cinema has become an important aspect of contemporary Moroccan culture and it expresses adequately the ‘imaginaire’ of the country. To get a better grasp on and gain more insight in this, in each of seven lectures a Moroccan film will be viewed at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The film will be preceded or followed by a discussion between Moroccan French writers/directors and some other prominent speakers. They all address the contradictions of this time period; the acceleration of progress in juxtaposition with a traditional society.

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Florence Bernault, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Firstly, Bernault traces how colonialism was a crucial moment for reconfiguring ideas of personal and collective agency. Contemporary dilemmas about human and super-human power in Africa cannot be understood without reconstructing the fierce battles that occurred over social reproduction, the value of the human body and the efficacy of machines, objects and charms. Secondly, Bernault does not view colonizers in Africa as global and rational agents but as intimate and intrusive actors in a mutual recomposing of shared cosmologies of power. Please register.

ascleiden

The cinema of Morocco has had a revival in recent years: production is increasing, films are selected and win awards in international festivals. This new cinema has become an important aspect of contemporary Moroccan culture and it expresses adequately the ‘imaginaire’ of the country. To get a better grasp on and gain more insight in this, in each of seven lectures a Moroccan film will be viewed at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The film will be preceded or followed by a discussion between Moroccan French writers/directors and some other prominent speakers. They all address the contradictions of this time period; the acceleration of progress in juxtaposition with a traditional society.

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L.H. Berckmoes: Elusive Tactics. Urban Youth Navigating the Aftermath of War in Burundi. Lidewyde Berckmoes onderzocht de sociale ontstaansgeschiedenis van oorlog en vrede in Burundi. Burundi heeft een turbulente geschiedenis met verscheidene uitbarstingen van geweld en een burgeroorlog van 1993-2006. Berckmoes benaderde de kwestie vanuit een focus op alledaagse patronen van classificeren en identificeren door jongeren (16-30 jaar) in de noordelijke buitenwijken van de hoofdstad Bujumbura. Zij laat zien hoe jonge mannen en vrouwen hun weg zoeken in de naoorlogse omgeving en hoe zij daarbij omgaan met heel onzekere vooruitzichten van (opnieuw) geweld en uitsluiting: tekenend voor het dagelijks leven in Burundi. Zij geeft daarmee inzicht in de wijze waarop sociale actie in precaire omstandigheden vorm krijgt en in hoe ‘gewone mensen’ – jongeren – bijdragen aan het hervinden van vrede.

vrijeuniversiteit

The cinema of Morocco has had a revival in recent years: production is increasing, films are selected and win awards in international festivals. This new cinema has become an important aspect of contemporary Moroccan culture and it expresses adequately the ‘imaginaire’ of the country. To get a better grasp on and gain more insight in this, in each of seven lectures a Moroccan film will be viewed at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The film will be preceded or followed by a discussion between Moroccan French writers/directors and some other prominent speakers. They all address the contradictions of this time period; the acceleration of progress in juxtaposition with a traditional society.

eyefilm UvA-Program

The cinema of Morocco has had a revival in recent years: production is increasing, films are selected and win awards in international festivals. This new cinema has become an important aspect of contemporary Moroccan culture and it expresses adequately the ‘imaginaire’ of the country. To get a better grasp on and gain more insight in this, in each of seven lectures a Moroccan film will be viewed at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The film will be preceded or followed by a discussion between Moroccan French writers/directors and some other prominent speakers. They all address the contradictions of this time period; the acceleration of progress in juxtaposition with a traditional society.

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