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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Dr. Natasha Raheja (Cornell Univer
 sity): https://anthropology.cornell.edu/natasha-raheja\n\nBeyond the Natio
 nal Frame: Scenes from the Indo-Pak Border\n\nCo-sponsored with ISID\, the
  91ºÚÁÏÍø Refugee Research Group\, and the Critical Media Lab.\n\nAbstract: 
 In this talk\, I present my use of formal filmic techniques across two wor
 ks to advance a visual argument about mobility and borders in South Asia. 
 Borders are readily made legible through visual representations and materi
 al practices such as maps\, fences\, walls\, passports\, flags\, news cove
 rage\, and the like. But what happens when one shuffles the narrative? I d
 ice\, splice\, and recombine images of borders to generate a picture of th
 e border that is not amenable to figurative absorption. Mainstream represe
 ntations of the India-Pakistan border emphasize polarity\, but I show that
  the border is a continuous space even as it is a marker of discontinuity.
  Specifically\, my stylistic use of juxtaposition\, montage\, glitch\, and
  split-screen exposes reductions and excesses of the nation-state order. I
  will screen from A Gregarious Species (2023\, 9 min) and Kitne Passports?
  (in-production) to convey how\, like the filmic cut\, the border produces
  a shared and segmented space. Culling together found footage and composin
 g my own images\, I argue that working within the visual medium itself can
  unravel mental pictures about the fixity of borders.\n\nA Gregarious Spec
 ies (2023\, 9 min): What do bugs and borders have to do with each other? B
 ringing together mobile phone videos of transboundary gregarious locust sw
 arms\, political rallies\, and scientific webinars\, this found-footage\, 
 experimental video raises questions about the selective porosity of border
 s amidst environmental crisis\, farmer insecurity\, and nationalism in Sou
 th Asia.\n\nKitne Passports? (in production\, 15-min visual sample): What 
 does waiting for a welcome feel like? Follow four\, cross-caste Pakistani 
 Hindu migrant families as they shift between minority and majority status\
 , navigating uncertain futures in India.\n
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LOCATION:Room 108\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue
  McTavish
SUMMARY:Anthropology Speaker Series - Natasha Raheja
URL:/anthropology/channels/event/anthropology-speaker-
 series-natasha-raheja-362506
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