As a Chinese American, Vietnamese culture has been a huge part of my life and identity. I wanted to film people, places, and food that personally connected with me as a child and as a student abroad. I loved to film non-touristy places because there’s beauty and deep satisfaction in finding hidden gems and hole-in-the-wall […]
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Romani Markets in Rome
The CHID Legacies of Empires program connects with Romani communities in Rome. Italian Romani (commonly and pejoratively known as Gypsies) are dependent on informal markets to sell the recycled objects they collect from the garbage. The last informal market available to them in Rome—the Don Carlo Gnocchi Market—was recently closed, exacerbating the impoverishment of these […]
Becoming Raven
Schiffler is the first recipient of the Colin Wang Memorial Scholarship, a $1000 award for a CHID study abroad student, created in memory of University of Washington student Colin Wang. Because Wang was an aspiring stand-up comedian, in order to compete for the scholarship, students were each asked to submit an original limerick. Schiffler’s limerick […]
Man Alone
Artist’s Statement: Over the course of my two-month study abroad trip in Iceland, the themes of becoming and isolation presented themselves repeatedly in our readings and in my first-hand experiences. I considered exploring many other themes in my final project, like time, human and animal relations or politics. But I couldn’t shake the impact that […]
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My study experience was quite long – several years, from 2007 to 2010. Miami is not “abroad” in the usual sense, but it is not easily categorized next to the rest of the United States. At over 75% Latin@ and as one of the most “foreign” cities in the world by population, Miami is something […]