"Peasant Family Happiness" film screening and panel discussion -- part of Movements and Exchanges in an Unequal World: ICS at 40 conference

Peasant Family Happiness depicts the everyday experience of "doing tourism" (Ch: gao lüyou) in two rural, ethnic tourism destinations in contemporary China: Ping¿an village in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Upper Jidao village in Guizhou Province. For more information on Jenny Chio's film, see https://sites.google.com/site/jennytchio/research/peasant-family-happinessThe film screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the director Jenny Chio (Department of Anthropology, Emory University), Ralph Litzinger (Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University), Navid Naderi (Program in Literature, Duke University), and Hong-An Truong (Art Department, UNC-CH).The conference, to be continued on March 1, 2013, commemorates forty years of International Comparative Studies (ICS) at Duke and will critically engage complex and urgent topics such as humanitarianism, the global university, migration, and security, with a focus on history and contemporary human experience. We are bringing together a dynamic group that includes established and new scholars from Duke and beyond, a filmmaker, a performer/activist, the new legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and graduate and undergraduate scholars at Duke.