Temadag om Afrika på RUC, starter med forevisning af filmen " Darwin's Nigtmare"
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Dan — 8. april 2006, 23:25
Da jeg er på North/South Network's mail-liste, har jeg modtaget nedenstående invitation til en temadag på RUC om Afrika med fokus på fattigdom, handel og HIV/AIDS. Arrangørerne lægger ud med at vise filmen "Darwin's Nightmare" om følgerne af fiskeriet efter nile perch. Victoria-intesserede akvarister ville måske også finde det korte indlæg om fiskeriet i søen for relevant (kl. 14.50-15.00) Jeg ved ikke om arrangementet kræver tilmeldning. Hvis man er interesseret i at deltage, kan man kontakte Maj-Britt Johansen (se mail/telefonnummer længere nede).
De bedste hilsner,
Dan
To the members of North/South Network
Invitation to a special arrangement of the 'Trade Mondays' seminar series
in collaboration with the Department of International Development Studies, RUC
*'**Darwin**'s Nightmare': Trade, Poverty and HIV/AIDS in **Africa*
Monday,24 April 2006
13.00-16.00
The Cinema, building 41.1
Roskilde University (RUC)
PROGRAMME
13.00 - Introduction and frame of the debate
Special Screening of the documentary film 'Darwin's Nightmare'
14.50-15.00 - An introduction to fish trade from Lake Victoria
Stefano PONTE, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
15.00-15.15 -'Pro' Intervention
Ben JONES, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Development Studies, RUC
15.15-15.30 - 'Con' Intervention
Lisa Ann RICHEY, Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, RUC
15.30-16.00 - Discussion
16.00- Reception given by the Department of International Development Studies, RUC
Open seminar - for more information contact Stefano Ponte (spo@diis.dk )
'Darwin's Nightmare': US Academy Award Nominee 2006-Best Documentary Feature
Hubert Sauper's acclaimed documentary is a compelling cautionary tale that clearly shows how, in this age of globalisation, things can easily evolve in the worst possible of unforeseen ways. Back in the 1960s someone poured some non-native fish into Lake Victoria. The profoundly predatory Nile Perch was far bigger than its native rivals and, in killing off most species, also had a deleterious effect on the human population: farmers moved to the lake to become fishermen and satisfy European and Russian demand for fish, which in turn caused massive economic change, sickness, poverty and, inevitably, political skulduggery. Witty, provocative, angry and heart-breaking, this incisive, imaginative film ranges wide in the subjects it covers. Filming undercover gave Sauper access to an impressive array of people, from businessmen and pilots to prostitutes and EU politicians, some of them alarmingly frank in their admissions. Less an exposé of corrupt individuals than a terribly lucid investigation into mankind's mad capacity for (self-)destruction, it's a film that will surely prick the conscience of all who see it. GA-Time Out
'Pro' Intervention: Ben JONES
In the discussion following the screening of Darwin's Nightmare, I will try to do two things. First, I will reflect on the way the film gives us a view of developments in Africa, in particular the way the director pieces together a picture of life in Mwanza, Tanzania. Second, I will offer some reflections on the film's relationship to the history of documentary making, and to the way Africa has been represented on film. In other words, I am interested both in what the film has to say to those interested in developments in Africa, and to what the film has to say about Africa's relationship to documentary making and film. I will also reflect on the film's relationship to my own experiences having spent some time living in eastern Uganda, a somewhat different place to Mwanza. I should also add that Darwin's Nightmare is a good film, deserving of its Oscar nomination.
'Con' Intervention: Lisa Ann RICHEY
I will comment on the film's relationship to the popularization of common tropes of development within a framework of race, gender and global images. The film's depiction of the rape and pillage of the dim and grim city of Mwanza by the hybrid evil of global capital and the post-cold war arms trade calls for an infusion of evidence-based realism. My brief intervention will be based on my fieldwork in Tanzania where I have lived and visited regularly since 1992 and on my research on HIV/AIDS, gender and development. I will try to bring Mwanza into focus in ways that challenge the myopic presentation of the film. While Darwin's Nightmare may be 'good film', it is not 'good development studies' as it has been embraced by anti-globalizationists. Activists for progressive development politics should be cautioned against embracing it as a development documentary.
//Maj-Britt Johannsen//
Nord/Syd Koordinator / North/South Coordinator
Center for Afrikastudier / Centre of African Studies
Københavns Universitet / University of Copenhagen
Postboks 2164 / P.O. Box 2164
Købmagergade 46, 4. sal / Koebmagergade 46, 4.
1150 København K / DK-1150 Copenhagen K
Tel: + 45 3532 2586
Fax: + 45 3532 2590
mbj@teol.ku.dk
www.teol.ku.dk/northsouth
De bedste hilsner,
Dan
To the members of North/South Network
Invitation to a special arrangement of the 'Trade Mondays' seminar series
in collaboration with the Department of International Development Studies, RUC
*'**Darwin**'s Nightmare': Trade, Poverty and HIV/AIDS in **Africa*
Monday,24 April 2006
13.00-16.00
The Cinema, building 41.1
Roskilde University (RUC)
PROGRAMME
13.00 - Introduction and frame of the debate
Special Screening of the documentary film 'Darwin's Nightmare'
14.50-15.00 - An introduction to fish trade from Lake Victoria
Stefano PONTE, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
15.00-15.15 -'Pro' Intervention
Ben JONES, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Development Studies, RUC
15.15-15.30 - 'Con' Intervention
Lisa Ann RICHEY, Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, RUC
15.30-16.00 - Discussion
16.00- Reception given by the Department of International Development Studies, RUC
Open seminar - for more information contact Stefano Ponte (spo@diis.dk )
'Darwin's Nightmare': US Academy Award Nominee 2006-Best Documentary Feature
Hubert Sauper's acclaimed documentary is a compelling cautionary tale that clearly shows how, in this age of globalisation, things can easily evolve in the worst possible of unforeseen ways. Back in the 1960s someone poured some non-native fish into Lake Victoria. The profoundly predatory Nile Perch was far bigger than its native rivals and, in killing off most species, also had a deleterious effect on the human population: farmers moved to the lake to become fishermen and satisfy European and Russian demand for fish, which in turn caused massive economic change, sickness, poverty and, inevitably, political skulduggery. Witty, provocative, angry and heart-breaking, this incisive, imaginative film ranges wide in the subjects it covers. Filming undercover gave Sauper access to an impressive array of people, from businessmen and pilots to prostitutes and EU politicians, some of them alarmingly frank in their admissions. Less an exposé of corrupt individuals than a terribly lucid investigation into mankind's mad capacity for (self-)destruction, it's a film that will surely prick the conscience of all who see it. GA-Time Out
'Pro' Intervention: Ben JONES
In the discussion following the screening of Darwin's Nightmare, I will try to do two things. First, I will reflect on the way the film gives us a view of developments in Africa, in particular the way the director pieces together a picture of life in Mwanza, Tanzania. Second, I will offer some reflections on the film's relationship to the history of documentary making, and to the way Africa has been represented on film. In other words, I am interested both in what the film has to say to those interested in developments in Africa, and to what the film has to say about Africa's relationship to documentary making and film. I will also reflect on the film's relationship to my own experiences having spent some time living in eastern Uganda, a somewhat different place to Mwanza. I should also add that Darwin's Nightmare is a good film, deserving of its Oscar nomination.
'Con' Intervention: Lisa Ann RICHEY
I will comment on the film's relationship to the popularization of common tropes of development within a framework of race, gender and global images. The film's depiction of the rape and pillage of the dim and grim city of Mwanza by the hybrid evil of global capital and the post-cold war arms trade calls for an infusion of evidence-based realism. My brief intervention will be based on my fieldwork in Tanzania where I have lived and visited regularly since 1992 and on my research on HIV/AIDS, gender and development. I will try to bring Mwanza into focus in ways that challenge the myopic presentation of the film. While Darwin's Nightmare may be 'good film', it is not 'good development studies' as it has been embraced by anti-globalizationists. Activists for progressive development politics should be cautioned against embracing it as a development documentary.
//Maj-Britt Johannsen//
Nord/Syd Koordinator / North/South Coordinator
Center for Afrikastudier / Centre of African Studies
Københavns Universitet / University of Copenhagen
Postboks 2164 / P.O. Box 2164
Købmagergade 46, 4. sal / Koebmagergade 46, 4.
1150 København K / DK-1150 Copenhagen K
Tel: + 45 3532 2586
Fax: + 45 3532 2590
mbj@teol.ku.dk
www.teol.ku.dk/northsouth
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