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Past Events at the Center for Religion and Media
CULTURE, RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF CHANGE
Spring 2009 Calendar of Events
SCREENING / ARTIST'S TALK
Thursday, January 29, 6:00–8:00 pm
The Great Room, 19 University Place
At Home with Their Books
Artist's Talk with Elena Climent
Screening: Writers' Rooms: The Making of a Mural (Marcia Rock, 2008; 30 min.)
Introduction, Una Chaudhuri (English, NYU), Discussion with Marcia Rock (Journalism, NYU) and Elena Climent.
NYC-based Mexican artist Elena Climent discusses her 5-part mural painted on the walls of 19 University Place, depicting the writing spaces of famous NY writers Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Jacobs and Pedro Pietri.
Followed by a reception and viewing of the mural.
Co-sponsored by Anthropology, English, and Journalism
SCREENING / DISCUSSION
Friday, February 6, 4:00–6:00 pm
Kevorkian Center Screening Room
50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street
In Search of Bene Israel
Documentary filmmaker and writer Sadia Shepard grew up in the US with a Muslim mother, Christian father and Jewish grandmother. In 2001 she journeyed
to India to connect with her grandmother’s Indian Jewish community. This film-and her acclaimed 2008 book, The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked
Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and A Sense of Home—offer an account of what she discovered.
Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center
LECTURE / SCREENING
Friday, February 13, 3:00–7:00 pm
The Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South at Sullivan Street
Female Trouble: Women's Representation in Iranian Cinema
Hamid Naficy (Communications, Northwestern)
A leading scholar on exilic and diasporic cinema and media, Naficy examines the ideological work surrounding the filmic representation of women and their participation as filmmakers in this new era of Iranian cinema.
Followed by a screening of
Under the Skin of the City (Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, 2004; 92 min.)
Tuba, a mother of four, faces challenges to her way of life when her oldest son sells the family home for a foreign work visa. When his plans crumble, Tuba takes drastic measures to save her house and her son.
After-film discussion with Hamid Naficy
Co-sponsored by NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center
Hosted by The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University
SCREENING / DISCUSSION
Friday, February 27, 4:00–6:30 pm
5 Washington Place, Room 101
A Jihad for Love (Parvez Sharma, 2007; 81 min.)
Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma filmed in twelve countries and nine languages, often in nations where government permission to make this film was not an option.
Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.
Co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies
SCREENING / DISCUSSION
Friday, March 6, 2:00–5:30 pm
Cinema Studies Screening Room
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Devoted to discipline: religion, education and punishment in prison
The Dhamma Brothers: East Meets West in the Deep South (Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein, Andrew Kukura, 2008; 76 min.)
A 10-day meditation retreat held in an Alabama men’s maximum-security prison makes a decisive difference in several lives.
A post-screening discussion with filmmaker Jenny Phillips, will be followed by a roundtable exploring the paradoxes of discipline as religion, college education and punishment in American prisons. Do religious practices and education programs simply serve the punitive regime of the prison, rendering inmates manageable? Or are they the lifeline for moral integrity and dignity of the individuals who live inside?
With Tanya Erzen (OSU), an anthropologist researching the role of faith-based initiatives in southern prisons, and Daniel Karpowitz (Bard), a lawyer and academic director of the Bard Prison Initiative in New York state. Moderator: Angela Zito (NYU)
Click here to view the event flyer.
Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies (Tisch), SCA, CSGS, and Religious Studies
BOOK DISCUSSION
Monday, March 16, 7:00 pm
The Half King, 505 West 23rd Street
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Kathryn Joyce (Journalist, The Revealer)
Click here for more information.
Co-sponsored by NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center
Hosted by The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University
FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, March 26 – Sunday, March 29
National Museum of the American Indian,
U.S. Customs House, One Bowling Green
4th Native American Film + Video Festival
Celebrating 30 years of screening outstanding Native film and media.
For more information: http://www.nmai.si.edu/
WEINER LECTURE
Thursday, April 2, 6:00–8:00 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Three Modalities of Ethics
Webb Keane (Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Co-sponsored by NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday, April 23, 6:00–8:00 pm
Casa Italiana, 24 West 12th Street
Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America
Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University)
From cantors’ early sound recordings to contemporary Hasidic outreach on the Internet, American Jews have become much more than the “people of the book”
during the past century. Drawing on his lively new book, Jews, God, and Videotape (NYU Press), Shandler argues that such engagements with media of all kinds have become central to defining contemporary religiosity not only for Jews but more broadly.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
SCREENING / DISCUSSION
Friday, May 1, 4:00–6:00 pm
Space TBD
Sync or Swim (Cherl Furjanic, 2008; 90 min.)
An in-depth look at a marginal sport: U.S.A.’s top synchronized swimmers endure rigorous training and overcome unthinkable obstacles to compete for Olympic glory.
Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.
All events are co-sponsored by Cinema Studies (TSOA), Anthropology and Religious Studies. Additional co-sponsorship by The Council for the Study of Disability, American Studies and SCA.
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
All events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Seating is first come, first served.
Persons with a disability are requested to call the Center for Media, Culture,
and History in advance at 212.998.3759.
Funding has been provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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