Videos

In November 2023, the New Area Studies Research Centre at UEA hosted an international symposium - New Area Studies: Under Construction - which brought a range of global perspectives to bear on the future of the field.

Panel 1: ACTION

[Sylvia C. Frain, Whitinga Research Fellow, Te Ara Auaha, Auckland University of Technology: Indigenous Resistance to United States Militarization in the Marianas Archipelago in Micronesia (not recorded)]

Hazel Marsh, UEA: Strengthening Romani Capacity in Colombia (in person)

Sarah Barrow (PVC, HUM) and Eylem Atakav, UEA: British Academy & GCRF and UEA funded Women of Influence Project Peru (including screening of short film ‘Ojos de Agua’) (in person)

Iokine Rodriguez-Fernandez, UEA: Peace-abilities: strengthening bottom-up peacebuilding in Colombia (in person)

In November 2023, the New Area Studies Research Centre at UEA hosted an international symposium - New Area Studies: Under Construction - which brought a range of global perspectives to bear on the future of the field.

Panel 2: CONCEPTS

Philip Wilson, UEA: Not Only Rivers and Mountains: New Area Studies and Storytelling (in person)

Malcolm McLaughlin and Thomas Ruys Smith, UEA: Circus at the Seaside: New Area Studies on the Edge (in person)

Vincent Houben, Humboldt University of Berlin: New Area Studies as an Emerging Discipline (in person)

In November 2023, the New Area Studies Research Centre at UEA hosted an international symposium - New Area Studies: Under Construction - which brought a range of global perspectives to bear on the future of the field.

Panel 3: THEORY

Susan Hodgett UEA (In person) and Pat James, University of Southern California (online): Developing New Area Studies in the Post Pandemic Age

Zoran Milutinovic, University College London: Area Studies in the 21st Century, (in person)

Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania, The Survival and Adaptation of Area Studies (online)

This video was created as part of the "Women of Influence/Mujeres que influyen" project led by PUCP (Perú) and the University of East Anglia (UK) - including New Area Studies Research Centre UEA members Professor Sarah Barrow and Professor Eylem Atakav.

The “Women of Influence/Mujeres que influyen” project starts from the premise that while women play a fundamental role in food security, the preservation of biodiversity and ancestral knowledge, and the management and defence of Amazonian land and water, these contributions still often go unrecognized. (Marcelo, ONAMIAP, 2018) This project has sought to emphasise the importance for indigenous, rural women to participate actively in their communities, including exercising control over their resources.

Working alongside a group of indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon, members of the organisation OMIAASEC, our project asks why women remain largely excluded from community decision-making, seeking to understand more deeply the cultural and societal determinants that block them from roles of leadership and influence and seeking new forms of empowerment.

We analyse the work that women undertake as community members and leaders, their ambitions, networks and spheres of influence in the context of conflict, risk and disaster. The co-designed activities have resulted in research outputs (academic articles, participant-led short films and a collaborative manifesto) that continue to be presented to local/regional/national stakeholders, including government, civil and corporate representatives (in Peru and the UK primarily, as well as further afield including at COP28).

One such film is The Water Spring by Abigail Hoyos López, which in less than 3 and a half minutes conveys a powerful and poetic message about discrimination in relation to access to water.

Website: https: https://women-of-influence.co.uk

Recorded especially for the New Area Studies Research Centre, UEA:

Sylvia Frain and Alba Ferrandiz Gaudens: Contemporary Conversation in the Mariana Islands: Artefacts, Militarism, and Resistance