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This (in-person) event launches the digital stories of Yemeni /Arab Americans in Oakland during the pandemic, focused on the impact of the pandemic, the Muslim Ban, and the war in Yemen. The videos are produced in collaboration with StoryCenter which focuses on participatory media for social change.
The event features a screening of the videos followed by a panel and discussion, including scholars engaged in transnational digital storytelling with immigrant youth; Yemeni American community members who participated in the digital story project, as well as students from a digital storytelling course led by Prof. Sunaina Maira (Asian American Studies) and Amy Hill.
Speakers:
- Roozbeh Shirazi - Associate Professor, College of Education & Human Development, University of Minnesota (on digital storytelling with Muslim newcomer youth in France)
- Beshara Kehdi - Cultural Studies PhD student, Cultural Studies (UC Davis)
- Wayne Jopanda - Cultural Studies PhD student/Founding Associate Director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies (UC Davis)
- Mohammed Elbgal - digital story participant, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Bay Area)
- Amy Hill - Co-director, Stories of Home, StoryCenter (Berkeley)
For more information please contactsmaira@ucdavis.edu
Event sponsored by Asian American Studies and funded by a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society fellowship awarded to Prof. Sunaina Maira. Cosponsored with the Transformative Justice in Education Center and Middle East/South Asia Studies.
Image credit: Terry Scussel