Join Klein's Office of Research and Graduate Studies for the Spring 2021 Graduate Speaker Series featuring Dr. Wazhmah Osman, Assistant Professor, Media Studies and Production. This event is co-sponsored with the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS).
About the lecture
In Television and the Afghan Culture Wars, Osman analyzes the impact of foreign programming and funding on the culture wars in Afghanistan with special attention to how women and other groups are interpellated and how they resist. At its core the book grapples with the consequences of the last fifty years of imperial and development interventions in Afghanistan. While it is the first ethnographic account of the Afghan media worlds, it also takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes studies of war and conflict, gender and sexuality, postcoloniality and empire, anthropology and history.
About the speaker
Wazhmah Osman is an Afghan-American filmmaker and assistant professor in the Media Studies and Production Department at Temple University. She is the co-director of the critically acclaimed documentary Postcards from Tora Bora and the co-author of the forthcoming Afghanistan: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press). Prior to academia, she worked in television and film production for major American and international media institutions and as an independent journalist and filmmaker.
Note: The Zoom room will open at 11:00 a.m., and the lecture will start promptly at 11:15.