The Center for Khmer Studies welcomes Professor Jeffrey Dym, Professor of Japanese History at California
State University, Sacramento and a former CKS Senior Fellow to the Lecture Series in SIEM REAP. He will be joined by Michael Vann Ph.D, who has recently spoken in Phnom Penh. The topic for discussion will be:
The Value of Video Scholarship & French Colonial Architecture
Date: 26/7/2013
Time: 1730 - 1900
Venue:
CKS Conference Hall
Wat Damnak
Siem Reap
Please Confirm attendance by 25/7/2013
Email: sreypich[atmark]khmerstudies.org or call 063 964 385
Abstract:
As scholars we have often watched historical television programs and documentaries on subjects that are entertaining and interesting but which are not historically accurate. The problem is that most documentaries are made by filmmakers who take a crash course in a subject, hire a few professors to make comments, then edit the film to suit their narrative, which is not always the most historically accurate narrative. Professor Dym would like to change that by encouraging scholars to embark down a scholarly path he is calling “Video Scholarship.” Scholars usually publish their academic research as articles in journals, chapters in books, or monographs. He believes that these forms of academic dissemination should be supplemented by video scholarship, because some topics are best told in video. This talk will focus on the value of video scholarship and how it relates to his current project on French Colonial architecture in Phnom Penh.
Jeffrey Dym is a Professor of Japanese History at California State University, Sacramento and a former CKS Senior Fellow. He has done research on Japanese silent film narrators (benshi) and kamishibai (paper plays), a form of Japanese street performance. In recent years he has become involved in turning his research into documentary films. His current project involves French Colonial architecture in Phnom Penh.
Michael G. Vann is an Associate Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento, Vice President of the California World History Association, and a past President of the French Colonial Historical Society. Vann was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakata, Indonesia, in 2012-2013 and a Center for Khmer Studies Fellow in 2013.
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