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SUMMARY:To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us A
 bout Humanity - Tsai Tsung-lung (National Chung Cheng University)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231204T160000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231204T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell 
 Us About Humanity - The Film Screening of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep'
  (九槍) with Director Tsai Tsung-lung.\n\nNguyen Quoc Phi was nobody bef
 ore he died\, but now he tells his own story as a young migrant from Ngh
 ệ An\, Vietnam\, to Taiwan in this documentary. Phi was an undocumented 
 migrant worker\, or a ‘runaway’\, in northern Taiwan before he was sho
 t nine times by the police and left unattended by the paramedics on 31 Aug
 ust 2017. What made him ‘run away’ from his factory work? How did he f
 ind jobs in various construction sites? Why did he start taking drugs? Was
  he an imperfect victim? These are straightforward questions leading to co
 mplicated answers. And Miles to Go before I Sleep (九槍\, 'Nine Shots') 
 brings to the fore the nakedness of discrimination and the challenges to h
 umanity if we choose to be bystanders indifferent to inequality and injust
 ice . Please join us for the screening of this award-winning documentary a
 nd find out how each of us can take actions to stop discrimination and ine
 quality. In November 2022\, the film won the Best Documentary Feature of t
 he Golden Horse Film Festival\, one of the most important film festivals i
 n the Sinophone cinema.\n\nSpeaker: Tsai Tsung-Lung (蔡崇隆) graduated 
 with a law degree in Bachelor from the National Chengchi University and a 
 Master’s degree in Mass Communication from Fu Jen Catholic University in
  Taiwan. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Film Studies from the Univer
 sity of East Anglia in the UK. He is currently Associate Professor at the 
 Department of Communications of the National Chung Cheng University and wo
 rks as an independent documentary producer and director.\n\nCoordinator: D
 r Isabelle Cockel is Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Devel
 opment Studies at the University of Portsmouth. \nSpeakers:\nTsai Tsung-lu
 ng (National Chung Cheng University)
LOCATION:Dickson Poon Building (Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground
  floor))\, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c8e8c6e2-0dbb-4804-818c-04ae795118c5/
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