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Past Events at the Center for Religion and Media
CONFESSION/TESTIMONY/WITNESSING
Fall 2003 Calendar of Events
SCREENING/PANEL
Thursday, September 18, 6:30–8:30 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
Matters of Race:
The Changing Face of America (Roja Productions, 2003, a 4–part series)
This documentary series challenges audiences to reconsider the architecture
of race, its role in our democracy, and its relationship to power in America.
A panel discussion will follow a screening of clips from the series.
Panelists include Orlando Bagwell (Roja Productions), John Kuo–Wei Tchen
Asian/Pacific/American Studies), Sam Pollard (Tisch School of the Arts), writer Jane Lazarre,
and others.
Co–sponsored by Department of Art and Public Policy/TSOA, Asian/Pacific/American
Studies.
ARTISTS ROUNDTABLE
Thursday, September 25, 6:30–9:00 pm
Kimmel Center for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
Looking Back, Lookig Beyond:
Women Speak on Art, Politics, and Exile, Middle East/USA
Feminist visual artists Shirin Neshat (Iran–USA) and Emily Jacir (Palestine–USA),
and NYU cultural critics Ella Shohat (Iraq–Israel–USA) and Shiva Balaghi (Iran–USA)
explore artistic creativity in exile.
Co–sponsored by Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Religious Studies,
General Studies (SCPS), Photography + Imaging (TSOA), Kevorkian Center, Grey
Art Gallery, and Al–Jisser.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Thursday, October 2, 6:00–7:30 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Dean’s Conference Room, 12th Floor
Like Niobe All Tears:
Reflections on Memorials and 9/11
Geoffrey Hartman (Yale University)
Literary scholar Geoffrey Hartman, founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for
Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University, will discuss “the shapes of
memory” and the monumentalization of grief.
Co–sponsored by Religious Studies.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Thursday, October 9
Witnessing Time/Being Time:
Consciousness as Context in Contemporary Art
A discussion about contemporary art and meditation practice, moderated by Jacquelynn
Baas, art historian and director of the consortium project "Awake: Art,
Buddhism, and the Dimensions of Consciousness."
Co–sponsored by The Buddhism Project and The Grey Art Gallery, in conjunction
with “Everything Matters: Paul Kos,” an exhibition on view at NYU’s
Grey Gallery September 9–December 6, 2003.
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Friday, October 17, 4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 656
Resisting Paradise (Barbara Hammer, 2003; 80 min.)
The resistance of a small group of women in Provence who assisted Jews is contrasted
with Matisse and other artists who continued to paint landscapes during the
Vichy period and Nazi occupation.
A discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
Co–sponsored by American Studies, Art and Public Policy, and the Center for the
Study of Gender and Sexuality.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Monday, October 20, 6:00–8:00 pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Hemmerdinger Hall
If Gods are at War, What are the Peace Conditions?
Bruno Latour (Centre de sociologie de l’innovation Ecole des Mines, Paris)
Anthropologist Bruno Latour critically explores the intersections of science,
culture and belief, most recently in the exhibition Iconoclash: Beyond the
Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art. He will speak on the escalating crisis
between modernity and religion.
Co–sponsored by Religious Studies, in association with La Maison Franaise.
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Friday, November 21, 3:00–5:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 70 Washington Square South
Wander (Danae Elon, 2003; 75 min.)
The filmmaker’s search for a former Palestinian employee of her family
takes her from the Middle East to the U.S.
A discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian Center.
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Thursday, December 4, 6:00–8:00 pm
King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South
How to Behave:
The films of Tran Van Thuy (in Vietnamese with English subtitles)
The reflective, self–critical fiction and documentary films of Tran Van Thuy
comprise a running commentary on post–1975 Vietnam society.
A panel discussion with Tran Van Thuy, Nguyen Ba Chung (University of Massachusetts/Boston), and others will follow. For information, call 212.998.3770.
Co–sponsored by International Center for Advanced Studies.
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Friday, December 5, 6:30–9:00 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
Morning Sun (Carma Hinton, Geremie R. Barm, Richard Gordon; 2003; 120 min.)
An inner history of the cultural revolution that charts the psychological and
emotional landscape of high–Maoist China, featuring personal stories of families
caught up in this tumultuous period, as well as propaganda films never before
seen in the west.
A discussion with the filmmakers will follow the screening.
For information, call 212.998.3770.
Co–sponsored by International Center for Advanced Studies and The Directors Series,
The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Department of Film and
Television/TSOA.
Funding provided by The Rockefeller Foundation.
WORKSHOP
Wednesday, December 10 – Thursday, December 11
Casa Italiana, 66 West 12th St.
War, Religion, and Spectacles of Suffering
Keynote Speaker: Chris Hedges, journalist and author, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Participants: Susie Linfield, Mazyar Lotfalian, Roxanne Varzi, Barbie Zelizer,
and others.
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