Indigital Media: Recovering Indonesian Archives

This talk explores the creative and transformative ways that artists, filmmakers, scholars, and activists have responded to a history of trauma and violence in the post-genocide era in Indonesia. “Indigital Media” asks how communities reimagine and recover decimated cultural archives, focusing on transnational media projects that act as counternarratives to state propaganda and open up spaces for community collaboration, cultural transformation, and local and global dialogue

All are welcome, please invite your students to attend and distribute to interested parties.

The talk will also be streamed on Zoom: https://csulb.zoom.us/j/81050886318

Viola Lasmana is a Lecturer in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Dr. Lasmana works at the intersections of transpacific studies and digital media, with an emphasis on literature, film, and media arts. She is currently completing a book, Shadow Imaginations: Transpacific Approaches to Post-1965 Indonesian Archives. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, The Cine-Files, Visual Anthropology, make/shift: feminisms in motion, Computers and Composition, and Interdisciplinary Humanities. Dr. Lasmana received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California, with a certificate in Digital Media and Culture from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She has previously held the Andrew W. Mellon fellowship in Digital Humanities, and served as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC.

This event is funded by a CLA Scholarly Intersections Grant and co-sponsored by faculty in the Departments of Comparative World Literature, Asian and Asian American Studies, Anthropology, and Classics/Religious Studies. All are welcome, please encourage your students to attend. Please email Crystal Yin Lie (crystal.lie@csulb.edu) with questions or accessibility concerns.