Film Screening of 'Drive to School' and conversation with director Dr Charlie Rumsby
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- RB01
- Event type
- Event highlights
About this event
Drive to School is a short film that documents the motivations of young Christian missionaries Charles and Ai who are striving to bring education and hope to Cambodia’s stateless children.
Moved by witnessing the vulnerability to prostitution these children face to make ends meet, they attempt to offer alternative routes to learning and employment. Not without challenges along the way.
- Speaker: Dr Charlie Rumsby (Sussex University)
- Chair: Prof Michael Charney (SOAS)
About the speaker
Dr Charlie Rumsby is a Lecturer in Childhood and Youth at Sussex University. She trained as an anthropologist at SOAS and Goldsmiths, University of London before completing interdisciplinary doctoral and post-doctoral research at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations.
Her ethnographic research explores modes of identity and belonging amongst stateless ethnic Vietnamese children living on the Tonlé Sap River in Cambodia.
Registration
This event if free and open to the public.
- Organiser: SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies
- Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk
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