Boulou Ebanda de B'béri

Dr. Boulou Ebanda de B'béri is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa's Department of Communication. He teaches in the areas of Film, Communication and Cultural Studies. A graduate of the Université de Montréal, he obtained a PhD in Communication/Cultural Studies from Concordia University in 2003. Since 2005, he's the Founding Director and Lead Investigator of the Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of Cultures and Societies (AMLAC&S).[1]

Prof. Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, Ph.D.

Recent Publication Highlight

Filmography

Most of Professor Boulou Ebanda de B'béri's documentary previews are available on the Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of Cultures and Societies Youtube Channel or on [5]

Visiting professorship

Dr. Boulou Ebanda de B'béri been a visiting scholar and professor at the University of Kwazulu Natal's Centre for Culture, Communication and Media Studies (Durban, South Africa), Deakin University's Centre for Citizenship and Globalization (Melbourne Australia) University of California, Santa Barbara[6] and Northeastern University, Boston. He won the 2003 Van Horne Prize,[7] and is the author of books and academic articles on African Cinema and Cultural Studies, including his 2000 edited volume of the Journal of Film Studies, Écritures dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire,.,[8] Le 'Verbe au cinéma', Les Éditions AfricAvenir, 2013

Research

His research deals with the impact of oral tradition in black cinema, the materiality of images and the modality of knowledge transmission in intercultural/multicultural societies, and the articulations of practices of identity in various independent cinemas. He mobilize several original concepts in his work, such as "rappropriation" which similar to "domestication" with the difference that this is much more a process of "talking-back", "cleaning-back" or "recycling" dominant meaning apposed upon particular cultural practices in the margins of dominant ideologies. For Professor de Ebanda de B'beri, the process of "rappropriation" allow for a new, localized meaning to be given to those marginalized cultural practices (See in edited collections: Les Cultural Studies dans les mondes francophones, or in Écritures dans les cinémas d'Afrique noire).

Since 2007 he is the principal investigator of a million dollar project funded by the Social Science and Humanity Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the Promised Land Project: The Freedom Experience of Blacks in the Chatham and Dawn Settlements.[9]

A selection of funded research projects

The Promised Land Project: Black Experiences in Chatham-Kent's Settlements

SSHRC Strategic Grant: Community University Research Alliance. (2007–2012)[10]

Abstract

In the mid- 19th century, more than 28% of Chatham’s and Dawn Settlement’s population were of African descent, compared to circa 21% in Windsor, and only 2.2% in Toronto. However, in academic histories and in much of the popular understanding of this early migration of blacks to Canada, emphasis has been given to the Underground Railroad narrative of escape from slavery; this is, however, only a part of a much larger and complex story. The Promised Land project addresses this problem of “historical amnesia”. The project brings together an organic, interdisciplinary team of community and university researchers, whose goal is to recover, document, analyze, and disseminate the fullness, interconnectedness and significance of black history in the Promised Land communities. This national and international team will support the longstanding work of more than twenty front lines, diverse body of community organizations, by preserving and making accessible primary sources, by developing educational materials, by creating community projects in the arts and in public history, by furthering debates on the historical and contemporary manifestations of diversity in Canada and by encouraging new scholarship and teaching. (See the original use of Digital Humanities paradigm and tools for the Knowledge Mobilization of this project's outcomes

Rhyzomic Practices of Identity in Cinemas: A Comparative Study of Australian, Canadian and South African Independent Cinemas

SSHRC Standard Research Grant(2007–2010)

Abstract

Research Questions are: (1) How can we make visible the ‘various' formations of identity by using the Independent cinemas in multicultural countries such as Australia, Canada and South Africa as an object of analysis? and (2) How the deployment of parallel histories or “minority stories” in these three countries can inform us on: (a) crises of identity; (b) practices of identity; and (c) proliferations of identities, whether it be racial, ethnic, citizen or cultural? This research objective is indeed to use the relatively recent historical context of Australia, Canada, and South Africa, making these 3-countries excellent sites for a comparative multicultural investigation to understand the ways in which their respective cinematic traditions represent cultural and racial diversities.

Audiovisual Media Lab for the studies of Cultures and Societies (AMLAC&S)

A Canadian Foundation for Innovation's New Initiative & Infrastructure Grant The AMLAC&S is a space dedicated to the research, documentation, and the creation of audiovisual productions that specifically target the cultural practices of communities or marginalized identity group formations such as blacks and Aboriginals people. The primary philosophy behind the AMLAC&S is to produce research material that exposes contributions made by cultural, ethnic and racial minorities through their specific cultural practices. This endeavor begins with the conceptualization of questions of citizenship within multicultural societies such as Canada. Equipped with a working area endowed by the Faculty of Arts the AMLAC&S owns filming equipment (digital cameras, one sound recording system and one lighting kit) and non-linear Final Cut Pro program mounted on five Apple Pro computers. The AMLAC&S also owns its own server for storing and public access of audiovisual data and other research databases.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/lamacs
  2. ↑ http://pirg.uwaterloo.ca/icedinblack/waterloo.html
  3. ↑ http://lamacs.arts.uottawa.ca/videocultped.htm
  4. ↑ http://lamacs.arts.uottawa.ca/videolarry1.htm
  5. ↑ http://lamacs.arts.uottawa.ca/video.htm
  6. ↑ http://omni.ucsb.edu/cbs/xsite/pddf.html
  7. ↑ http://www.acc-cca.ca/eng/conference.html
  8. ↑ CINÉMAS, Vol.11, No.1 (2000), Introduction to Media Studies published by Oxford University Press (2007) The Afropessimism Phenomenon (with Eric Louw) CRITICAL ARTS. Vol. 25(3) Routledge/UNISA, and Les Cultural StudiesLes "Cultural Studies" dans les mondes francophones. Ottawa:University of Ottawa Press, 2010
  9. ↑ http://www.lamacs.uottawa.ca
  10. ↑ http://lamacs.arts.uottawa.ca

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