Past CDRP events
Take a look back at past events offered by the Center for Documentary Research and Practice.
2023
- Nov. 8, 2023: Debra Tolchinsky: Screening and Discussion
- October 26, 2023: Dawn to Despair--"The Dilemma"
- Sept. 26-Oct. 5, 2023: Želimir Žilnik: Essential Work
- April 12-21, 2023: The Best of FESPACO
- Feb. 22, 2023: Screening and Discussion: “Volunteers” by Ilya Utekhin
2022
- Nov. 4, 2022: VUFKU: Independence and Innovation
- Oct. 25, 2022: Portraits in Permafrost: “Garage People/Garagenvolk” (2020)
- Oct. 21, 2022: Portraits in Permafrost: “Life of Ivanna” (2021)
- Oct. 13, 2022: Screening: “All the President’s Men” (1976)
- Oct. 10, 2022: Comida Como Resistencia (2022): Screening Event
- June 21-22, 2022: Jazz Artists Richard Bonnet, Sylvain Darrifourcq, and Michael Attias
- April 26, April 29, and July 23, 2022: “Eat Your Catfish” Documentary Film Screenings
- April 21, 2022: Deaf History of Cinema and Independent Deaf Filmmaking in Poland and the U.S.
- April 14-16, 2022: InLight Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2022
- Feb. 21-23, 2022: Amandine Gay: Screening and Lecture
2021
- Nov. 11, 2021: “Pour Djamila” (2011): Virtual Screening
- Nov. 4, 2021: “State Funeral” (2019): Russian Studies Workshop Fall 2021 Film Series
- Nov. 3, 2021: Modernism Is Not for Children: Reckoning with Annette Michelson–A Lecture by Daniel Morgan
- Oct. 14, 2021: “Kolyma: Road of Bones” (2017): Russian Studies Workshop Fall 2021 Film Series
- Sept. 23, 2021: “Pipeline” (“Truba”) (2013): Russian Studies Workshop Fall 2021 Film Series
- Sept. 2, 2021: “Setting Off with Malcolm”–A Film by Jerry Mercury
- April 30, 2021: “VOY” (“БОЙ”): Russian Studies Workshop Spring 2021 Film Series
- March 5, 2021: “Будинок” (“Budynok”): Russian Studies Workshop Spring 2021 Film Series
- Feb. 24, 2021: Film–Survival Research Laboratories: The Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess
- Feb. 19, 2021: “Operation Wedding”: Russian Studies Workshop Spring 2021 Film Series
- Jan. 27-April 14, 2021: “Theory for Troubled Times” Film Series
2020
- Dec. 11, 2020: Ken and Florence Jacobs: A Conversation
- Nov. 21, 2020: WTIU Conference on Aging: Genealogy and Collecting Family Stories
- Nov. 20, 2020: Conversation on the Documentary Film, “Afro-Atlantic Legacies”
- Nov. 17, 2020: “The Eighteenth Brumaire” of Patricio Guzmán: Lessons from “The Battle of Chile” (1975-79)
- Oct. 27-30, 2020: Hugo Perez: All That Still Matters at All
- Feb. 12, 2020: Film Screening: Seahorse (2019)
2019
- Dec. 13, 2019: Renan Chaves: In Search of a History and Theory of Documentary Film Sound
- Nov. 21-24, 2019: Patricia R. Zimmermann: Documentary Across Platforms
- Oct. 27, 2019: Donbass: A Film by Sergei Loznitsa
- Oct. 18-Dec. 15, 2019: We Tell: 50 Years of Participatory Community Media
- Oct. 10-12, 2019: InLight Film Festival 2019
- Oct. 6-10, 2019: Filmmaker to Filmmaker: François Verster and Jahmil X. T. Qubeka
- Sept. 19, 2019: Film Screening: A Life Without Words (Una Vida sin Palabras)
- Sept. 15-Nov. 18, 2019: Between Worlds: Cultural Hybridity in Turkish Film
- Sept. 12-18, 2019: Documentary Film Editing Workshops
- March 20-21, 2019: Charles Musser: Film Historian and Documentary Filmmaker
- March 4, 2019: Eugene Corr: Ghost Town to Havana
- Jan. 28, 2019: “Making Montgomery Clift”–Screening and Discussion
2018
- Dec. 12, 2018: Women Filmmakers Series–Stanya Kahn: Stand in the Stream
- Nov. 26, 2018: Documenting Russia: Oleg's Choice
- Oct. 22, 2018: Documenting Russia: Red Army
- Oct. 18, 2018: Women Filmmakers Series–Shelly Silver: A Strange New Beauty and What I’m Looking For
- Sept. 30, 2018: Documenting Russia: Love is Potatoes
- Sept. 27, 2018: Women Filmmakers Series–Susana de Sousa Dias: Luz Obscura
- Aug. 8-11, 2018: Visible Evidence XXV
- July 23-24, 2018: Vietnam War/American War Stories: A Symposium on Conflict and Civic Engagement
- April 13, 2018: James Leo Cahill: La Caméra Voyageuse: Le Monde du Silence and the Cinema of Exploration
- April 6-11, 2018: Dziga Vertov: Film Eye and Film Ear
- Feb. 6-11, 2018: Wounded Galaxies: 1968–Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach
- Feb. 5, 2018: U.S. Premiere of Jeffrey Gould's film: "Port Triumph"
- Jan. 19, 2018: Greg de Cuir Jr.: Avant-Noir: Experimental Media from the African Diaspora
2017
- Dec. 1-6, 2017: Ariella Azoulay: POTENTIAL HISTORY OF THE ARCHIVE | A Micro Study of a Macro Institution
- Nov. 6-Dec. 2, 2017: Documentary Film in Post-Authoritarian Societies
- Nov. 3-6, 2017: Ruth Behar: Entrusting Myself to the Beauty & Danger of Life | Journeys of an Ethnographic Writer
- Oct. 6, 2017: Jean-Michel Dissard: Screening and panel discussion on documentary film, “I Learn America”
- April 12, 2017: Oliver Gaycken: A Cinema of Living Facts: The Encyclopedia Cinematographica's Archives of Movement
- April 7-9, 2017: In Light Film Festival 2017
2016
2015
- Oct. 30, 2015: Roger Hallas: A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film
- Sept. 24-25, 2015: Andrew Lichtenstein and Cedric Nunn: Landscape | Memory | Trauma