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26/05 4:30pm-6:30pm: Dr. Shota Ogawa - 'Posthuman Witnessing. A Film Salon, I: the archive'

IAS Resource — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:36:19 GMT

When: 4:30pm - 6:30pm, Tue, 26 May '26

Where: Screening room M.10

Film and Television Studies is delighted to be co-hosting Dr. Shota Ogawa, a cutting-edge film scholar in the documentary arts in East Asia.

Dr. Ogawa is an Associate Professor in Screen Studies (Graduate School of Humanities) at Nagoya University, Japan. His work focusses on the history of imperial and postimperial Japanophone cinema. His present research explores the contested model of “the witness” in contemporary documentary arts practices and theories in East Asia.

Dr. Ogawa’s expertise spans three interrelated fields of inquiry: (a.) archival film history; (b.) Japanese cinema with an emphasis on postcolonial filmmaking; and (c.) imperial/post-imperial documentary cinema. His current research draws on these three areas to examine the contested figure of the witness in contemporary documentary arts in East Asia, with special attention to practices that destabilize the androcentric “testimony apparatus” (Bhaskar and Sarkar 2010) in favour of its recalibration around the archival, the nonhuman, and the forensic witness.

Ogawa’s investment in cinematic documentation and interdisciplinary coverage of human rights trials and social activism will be of special interest to those invested in how global documentary practice can contribute to contemporary interdisciplinary debate on who and what should count as a witness, and how this witnessing matters to the social and political challenges of the world today.

Tuesday 26 May 4.30-6.30

Screening room M.10

Posthuman Witnessing. A Film Salon

I: the archive

Kim Gun (Kang Sang-woo, 2019, 85mins)

conversation with Dr. Jonathan Skinner (ECLS) in relation to figure of the witness and the formation and consolidation of democratic institutions and formations

16/06 2pm-4pm: Dr. Shota Ogawa - 'Posthuman Witnessing. A Film Salon, III: techno-science'

IAS Resource — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:35:39 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Tue, 16 Jun '26

Where: Screening Room M.10

Film and Television Studies is delighted to be co-hosting Dr. Shota Ogawa, a cutting-edge film scholar in the documentary arts in East Asia.

Tuesday 16^th June 2.00-4.00

Screening room M.10

Posthuman Witnessing. A Film Salon

screening series

III: techno-science

Top Right Corner (Lee Chanyeol, 2025, 28mins, director's note)

· Fire in Water (Nagata Kousuke, 2025, exhibition description)

conversation with Dr. James Poskett (History) in relation to witnessing and questions related to forensic histories of material science and global transformation

09/06 5pm-7pm: Dr. Shota Ogawa - 'Posthuman Witnessing. A Film Salon II: the non-human'

IAS Resource — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:30:51 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Tue, 09 Jun '26

Where: Screening Room M.10

Film and Television Studies is delighted to be co-hosting Dr. Shota Ogawa, a cutting-edge film scholar in the documentary arts in East Asia.

Tuesday 9^th June 5.00-7.00

Screening room M.10

Posthuman Witnessing. A Film Salon

II: the non-human

Track_ing (Hanna Cho, Chanyeol Lee, Samgar Rakym, Ali Tynybekov, 2024, 23 minutes)

Last May in Theaters (Arief Budiman, 2025, 23 mins)

That Anxiety Has a Mise-en-Scene (Cho Hee-

so, 2025, 22 mins)

conversation with Professor Catherine Constable and Dr. Liam Rogers in relation to the notion of witnessing in an era of accelerated digital transformation

19/05 12:30pm-2pm: Raising Healthy Children: Nutrition and Welfare in Mexico (1930-1960) A lunchtime talk by Sandra Aguilar Rodriguez, PhD

IAS Resource — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:17:17 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2pm, Tue, 19 May '26

Where: Warwick Medical School Room A0.41 and online

The Warwick Centre for Global Health and MPH invite you to

Raising Healthy Children:

Nutrition and Welfare in Mexico (1930-1960)

A lunchtime talk by Sandra Aguilar Rodriguez, PhD

Moravian University, USA

Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study

19 May 2026 12h30 - 14h00

Warwick Medical School Room A0.41 and online

Light refreshments will be served

After the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), there was an increased interest in improving the diet of the poor. The assumption was that workers missed workdays due to illness and that their physical weakness affected their performance. Nutrition was influenced by eugenics as well as ideas of mestizaje. Food was seen as a central aspect in the transformation of peasants into workers and those of indigenous backgrounds into mestizos. The process of mestizaje entailed adopting cooking and eating habits dominant in the Global North. The government promoted the consumption of animal protein in the form of milk and eggs, while the industry and mass media also encouraged the consumption of sugar and wheat bread. In this process, women played a key role, as they were responsible for provisioning and cooking. Moreover, women oversaw feeding their families and were thus the target of nutrition policies, cookbooks, and publicity. Motherhood was a central aspect of nutrition rhetoric, as the healthy development of children was seen as depending solely on their mothers. By studying archival material, medical journals, cookbooks, and oral history interviews, it is possible to identify which practices were considered ideal and the challenges to implementing them in daily life.