Decolonial Documentation: Homeland, Survival and Belonging in Kazakh and Uyghur Filmmaking
February 5-7, 2025
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In-person
Locations: February 5| Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5; February 6| Sidney Smith Hall, Room SS2098, 100 Saint George Street Toronto, ON M5S 3G3; February 7| Kina Wiiya Enadong Building 130 (KW130), University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON M1C 1A4
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is perhaps best known today as western China’s site of the largest mass internment of an ethno-religious group since WWII. Since 2018, the Chinese government has largely restricted access to international media, critical scholars, and diaspora communities; nonetheless, some of these individuals have developed creative and remote methods to reveal a grim colonial reality in a transnational and digital space through archiving and artistic solutions. Documentation itself has become a space for seeking truth and justice.
These events, spanning three days, created space to learn from and discuss the situation in Xinjiang, and engage with the works and experiences of the filmmakers.
Sponsored by: Cinema Studies Institute, History and Cultural Studies at UTSC, Department of Religion, The Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, Emerging Interventions Working Group