Film Screening & Director Talk: Expedition Content (04.03.24)

The Seeing and Not Seeing Seminar invites you to the screening of the film Expedition Content, followed by the Q&A with the filmmakers, Veronika Kusumaryati and Ernst Karel. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 3, 4:00 – 6:00 PM, in the College of Communication, Room B-05.

This nearly imageless film documents the strange encounter between the 1961 Harvard-Peabody expedition to Netherlands New Guinea, and the Hubula people. This is a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members to engage with the work of an anthropologist and a sound artist in their collaborative artistic expression.

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Statement on Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University is proud of BU’s history of diversity and inclusion. BU’s founders opened the University’s doors to all students without regard to religion, race, or gender, and building and sustaining a vibrant community of scholars, students, and staff remains essential to its mission of contributing to and preparing students to thrive in, an increasingly interconnected world.

Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

At the Center for Latin American Studies, we believe in and practice respect for individual differences in life experience, sexual orientation, and religious belief, and we aspire to be free of intellectual parochialism, barriers to access, and ethnocentrism. We appreciate and deeply value the contributions and talents of every member of the Boston University community and invite you to learn more about us.