Refugee filmmaking team
Project title: “Participatory Filmmaking with Refugee and Diverse Youth”
Abstract: This project seeks to support identity development, social integration, and belonging for refugee newcomer youth in in Central Missouri through participatory filmmaking with local diverse youth. Youth participants will develop the skills necessary to co-create documentary films, where they can tell their own and their communities’ stories, collaborate with each other, and explore cinematic language as a tool for self-expression. The resulting films will contribute to increased understanding among host community members of the diverse experiences, cultural wealth, and individual potential of youth of color and those with migration backgrounds.
Bios:
Melissa Hauber-Özer is an Assistant Professor of Qualitative Inquiry in the University of Missouri’s College of Education and Human Development, and she employs critical participatory methodology to examine issues of equity and access for linguistically and culturally diverse learners.
Viviana Goelkel is a filmmaker, former Fulbright Scholar, and an Assistant Teaching Professor of Film in the University of Missouri’s School of Visual Studies. Her work explores the experiences of marginalized characters in conflict with their environment and the use of filmmaking as a tool for social change.
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Kafka team
Project title: Adapting Kafka
Abstract: Our Digital Humanities project Adapting Kafka creates an interactive website that provides quantitative statistical data and qualitative scholarly analysis of all editions, translations, and adaptations of Franz Kafka’s best-known novel The Trial (1925). Once completed, our website will offer users the ability to search and visualize our database and explore the relationships of these resources across multiple dimensions and fields. Adapting Kafka will also offer samples of selected works through Scalar, a content-rich platform for scholarly projects online. Users can explore different editions and translations of The Trial and study audio-visual recordings of musical arrangements, theater productions and other kinds of adaptations found in our database. These samples will be augmented by editorial annotations and peer-reviewed essays on major topics relevant to Kafka Studies.
Bio:
Dr. Carsten Strathausen is Professor of German and English at MU.