Event Details

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.

French Lecture Series - Filmmaker Frieda Ekotto - Film and Discussion

Filmmaker Frieda Ekotto will screen her documentary Vibrancy of Silence and lead a post-screening discussion.

In this documentary, Marthe Djilo Kamga takes us along as she engages in fruitful conversations with four other Cameroonian female artists who, like her, know exile as well as how necessary it is to transmit to younger generations what they have learned as their multiple identities have evolved and fused. The conversations are connected by key themes of cultural heritage, historical memory and how images shape personal and collective memories.

Frieda Ekotto was born in Cameroon and was raised in Switzerland. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University of Minnesota in 1994. She is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

This event is free and open to the public

Contact: [email protected]

Audience: Alumni, Faculty, Parents and Families, Public, Staff, Students

Admission: Free

Sponsor: French and Francophone Studies

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