The graduate student producers of 3 short documentaries and slideshows on palm oil production and consumption in Jambi Indonesia will discuss their research and representation of palm oil pitfalls. The 3 videos and slideshows are multimedia projects produced collaboratively by graduate students at Michigan State University and at the National Islamic University of Indonesia in Jambi (UIN Jamb). PhD and MA students from the two universities worked together as part of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experience organized by the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities Program (MSU) in partnership with the International Office (UIN Jambi).
Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at MSU organized Palm Oil Pitfalls in collaboration with the International Center at the National Islamic University Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi (Indonesia) and with the support of the Muslim Studies Program and the Asian Studies Center at MSU.