Presented By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Film Screening and Discussion. Dragon For Sale
Dragon for Sale Team - Dandhy Laksono, Greg Afioma, Cypri Dale, Elisabeth Dinan, Venan Haryento. Moderated by Chris Hulshof, University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan in collaboration with the Graduate Education & Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium and Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab), is proud to present a screening of Dragon for Sale followed by a discussion with the film’s Director, Producers, and Research Team.
Dragon for Sale documents the Indonesian government’s “10 New Balis” development project in Eastern Indonesia and its attempts to turn Flores and the Komodo Islands into an international tourist destination. The documentary film highlights the darker side of the project’s history, including catastrophic environmental degradation and multiple human rights violations as local populations are forced out of their ancestral homes to make way for resorts and restaurants. The film showcases the resistance movements of local communities striving to create alternative tourism development and conservation plans through an indigenous framework of human-animal kinship and coexistence.
This hybrid event, simulcast in-person at six leading universities across the United States and on Zoom across the globe, is the first international screening of this groundbreaking documentary since its mid-April release in Indonesia. Join us on May 1, 2023, at Weiser Hall 555 at 6:00 pm or on Zoom at http://bit.ly/41Uqw0X.
Light refreshments will be served.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Jonathan Valdez at valdezjo@umich.edu.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact cseas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
In collaboration with the Graduate Education & Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium and Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab), Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carolina Asia Center at University of North Carolina, American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University
Dragon for Sale documents the Indonesian government’s “10 New Balis” development project in Eastern Indonesia and its attempts to turn Flores and the Komodo Islands into an international tourist destination. The documentary film highlights the darker side of the project’s history, including catastrophic environmental degradation and multiple human rights violations as local populations are forced out of their ancestral homes to make way for resorts and restaurants. The film showcases the resistance movements of local communities striving to create alternative tourism development and conservation plans through an indigenous framework of human-animal kinship and coexistence.
This hybrid event, simulcast in-person at six leading universities across the United States and on Zoom across the globe, is the first international screening of this groundbreaking documentary since its mid-April release in Indonesia. Join us on May 1, 2023, at Weiser Hall 555 at 6:00 pm or on Zoom at http://bit.ly/41Uqw0X.
Light refreshments will be served.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Jonathan Valdez at valdezjo@umich.edu.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact cseas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
In collaboration with the Graduate Education & Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium and Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab), Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carolina Asia Center at University of North Carolina, American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University
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