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Past Events at the Center for Religion and Media
RELIGION, MEDIA, BODY POLTICS
Fall 2005 Calendar of Events
ARTISTS ROUNDTABLE SYMPOSIUM
Friday, September 23, 1:00–6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 656
For Interpretation: Experiments in Documentary
Ravina Aggarwal (Smith College)
Paul Chan, Richard Fung, Lynne
Sachs, The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David
Thorne), Deborah Stratman, Tran T. Kim–trang,
and Travis Wilkerson. Moderators: Michael Renov (USC), Lucas
Helderbrand (Cinema Studies)
Mixing media, modes of address and cultural critiques, these artists traverse
documentary, experimental and essay forms. A group dialogue will follow screenings
of excerpts of each artist's work.
Presented with Cinema Studies.
Co–Sponsored by International
Film Seminars and the Flaherty.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday, September 29, 6:30–8:30 pm
Einstein Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street, 1st Floor
"Grief, Sexuality and Volition"
Gregg Bordowitz (School of the Art Institute
of Chicago)
Drawing from theological and psychoanalytical discussions of grief, this lecture
considers the tension between loss and recovery, pleasure and unpleasure, self
and other, and how they shape our capacity to act.
Co–Sponsored by Art and Art Professions.
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the event (Windows Media Player, 26 MB).
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the event (.mp3, 65 MB).
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Friday, October 7, 4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 006
WITNESS: 'Video for Change: A Guide to Advocacy and Activism'
Sam Gregory (WITNESS), Gillian Caldwell (WITNESS), Ronit
Avni (Just Vision).
Moderator: Anthropologist/filmmaker Meg McLagan.
WITNESS, pioneer in human rights video advocacy,
launches a book about media activism worldwide, from projects with child soldiers
in the Congo to slave labor in Brazil. Join us for a discussion with the editors.
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the event
(Windows Media Player, 20 MB).
Co–sponsored by The Center for Human Rights and
Global Justice, NYU School of Law.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Friday, October 14, 4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Dean's Conference Room
Manhattan Hell House
Omri Elisha (Anthropology), Heather Hendershot (Queens
College), Debra Levine (Performance Studies), and Alex
Timbers (Les Frères Corbusier).
Moderator: Ann Pelligrini (Performance Studies/Religious Studies).
Every year, on and around Halloween, thousands of "Hell Houses" are
staged by Christian Evangelicals in communities across America. Les Frères
Corbusier launches the first Hell House produced in New York City. This panel
explores this phenomenon as performance, religious artifact, and proselytizing
tool.
Co–sponsored by Performance
Studies
in cooperation with Les Frères Corbusier.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday, October 20, 6:30–8:30 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 006
"The Geneologies of Freedom/The Possibilities for Justice: Sexuality, Religion, and the War in Iraq"
Janet Jakobsen (Center for Research on Women, Barnard College)
What is the role of religion, gender, and sexuality in the conduct of the current U.S. war
in Iraq? Drawing on the religious genealogy of “freedom,” what are
the possibilities for building an alternative social movement in the U.S.?
LECTURE
Monday, October 24, 6:00–8:00 pm
NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square
South, Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
"Nature at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Look at the Politics of Science"
Bruno Latour (Ecole des Mines, Paris)
Dorothy Nelkin Lecture Series, NYU School of Law
MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL
November 3–6, 12, 13
Museum of Natural History, 77th Street Between Columbus Ave and Central
Park West
The longest–running showcase for international documentaries in
the United States, encompassing a broad spectrum of work, form indigenous community
media to experimental nonfiction.
For more information: http://www.amnh.org/mead
MARGINTERNET 2 PERFORMANCE
Thursday, November 10, 12:30–2:00 pm
Kimmel Center for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South, Shorin Performance Space, 8th
Floor
Trespassing Boundaries: An Internet 2 Performance and
Live Collaboration with the University of Tel Aviv
Barbara Rose Haum (Culture and Communication) and Sharon Aronson–Lehavi (Tel–Aviv
University)
In this installation and performance piece, artists in New York and Tel Aviv
interact via religious, autobiographical, and historical texts, exploring their
relationship with history, memory, and identity.
Co–sponsored by Culture
and Communication, Performance Studies, and the Faculty of Arts, Tel–Aviv University.
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