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Past Events at the Center for Religion and Media
CONFESSION/TESTIMONY/WITNESSING
Spring 2004 Calendar of Events
SCREENING
Friday, January 30, 3:00–5:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South, Screening Room
Human Weapon (Ilan Ziv, 2002; 55 min.)
This film explores the 20th century roots of suicide bombing, from kamikaze pilots
in World War II to the present–day practices of Al–Quaeda and other militant
groups. A discussion will follow the screening.
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian Center.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday, February 12, 6:30–8:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Dean’s Conference Room, 12th floor
Secular Childhood (and Other Religious Subjects)
Ann Pellegrini (Performance Studies/Religious Studies)
How do Christian understandings of sin, salvation, and selfhood continue to shape “secular” childhood
in the United States?
Co–sponsored by Performance Studies, Tuesday Night Forum Series.
SCREENING
Friday, February 27, 4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th floor
Forget Baghdad (Samir, 2002; 110 min.)
This documentary considers stereotypes of “the Jew” and “the Arab” through
100 years of film, linked with the biographies of five Iraqi Jews.
A discussion between the filmmaker and scholar Ella Shohat (NYU) will follow
the screening.
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian Center.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Friday, March 12,
Kimmel Center for Student Life for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South, Shorin Performance Studio, Room 802
1:00–5:00 pm
Who Owns The Passion?
The debates sparked by Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ raise
important questions about the ownership and popular circulation of sacred stories
in secular public spaces.
1:00–2:30 pm
Mediating the Life of Jesus
James Shapiro (Columbia University), Dramatizing the Passion, from the 12th Century to Mel Gibson
Elizabeth Castelli (Senior Research Scholar, Center for Religion and Media/NYU),
Gospel Truths: The Gospels as Mediations of the Life of Jesus
Heather Hendershot (Media Studies, Queens College)
His Pain, Your Gain: Jesus and Masculinity in Evangelical Media
Moderator: Adam Becker (Religious Studies, NYU)
3:15–5:00 pm
Debating The Passion of the Christ
Stuart Klawans (film critic, The Nation), From Greed and Doomed Love to The Passion: Literal Transcription as Cinematic
Toby Miller (Cultural/Cinema Studies/NYU), Frontstage/Backstage with Mel Gibson
Toni Rossi (The Christophers), Misperceptions, Wrong Turns, and Hot Buttons: "The Passion's" Road to Controversy
Moderator: Jeff Sharlet (The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press, http://www.therevealer.org)
Co–sponsored by The Center for Media, Culture and History, the Religious Studies Program,
Cinema Studies, and The Interfaith Center.
EXHIBITION/SCREENINGS
March 20–May 15, 2004
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue
Terrorvision
Images of terror dominate the national and global collective imaginary... This
exhibition represents the work of artists whose “visions of terror” are
based on iconic images and the many mirrors in which society’s greatest
fears are reflected– news media, film, literature, etc. A series of film
and video screenings and panel discussions will further explore the issues
raised.
For information: 212.966.7745 or http://www.exitart.org
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday, March 25, 6:30–8:00 pm
Thursday, March 25, 6:30–8:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Dean’s Conference Room, 12th floor
Of Miracles and Special Effects
Hent deVries (Johns Hopkins University)
“Special effects” evokes a cinematic sense of the technological future,
yet also resonates with an older religious language of miraculous explanation.
SCREENINGS/ROUNDTABLES
Thursday, April 1 – Friday, April 2
Thursday, April 1:
Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street
Lights! Reverence! Action! Picturing Faith in the Pursuit of Justice
6:30–9:00 pm
Trembling Before G–d: How A Movie Became A Movement
Filmmaker Sandi Simcha DuBowski, Rabbi Steve Greenberg, psychotherapist Naomi
Mark, Susan Korda (NYU).
Friday, April 2
Kimmel Center for Student Life for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South, Shorin Performance Studio, Room 802
10:00 am–12:00 pm
What Would Jesus Drive? & Blue Vinyl: Faith in the Greening of the Planet
Filmmaker Judith Helfand (NYU), Reverend Jim Ball (What Would Jesus Drive?), Bill Walsh (Healthy
Building Network), Cassandra Carmichael (National Council of Churches)
Introductory Remarks: George Stoney
1:30–3:30 pm
Freedom Machines: Bodies, Technologies and the Spirit of Interdependent
Living (Jamie Stobie and Janet Cole, 2003; 55 min.)
This screening will be followed by discussion with filmmaker Janet Cole , Simi
Linton (Disability/Arts), LisaRose Hall (Christian Council on Persons with
Disabilities), and Faye Ginsburg (NYU)
Co–sponsored by Bronfman Center for Student Life, Working Films.
CONFERENCE
Thursday, May 6 – Saturday, May 8
Kimmel Center for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South, Room 405/406
Religious Witness: the Intimate, the Everyday, the World
Keynote Speakers: Stewart M. Hoover, Patricia Spyer
REPRESENTING HOLY LAND(S): Adam Becker, Joan Branham, Judah Cohen, Jeffrey Feldman,
Barry Flood, Barbara Kirshenblatt–Gimblett, Miriam Peskowitz, Jeremy Stolow,
Angela Zito
MEDIATING RITUALS: Barbara Abrash, Alan Berliner, Faye Ginsburg, Louis Kaplan,
Michael Renov, Jeffrey Shandler, Melissa Shiff
CIRCULATING ISLAMS: Michael M.J. Fischer, Ziba Mir Hosseini, Brian Larkin, Flagg
Miller, Ella Shohat
THE SOUND OF ISLAMIC WORLDS: Michael Gilsenan, Magnus Madsen, Birgit Meyer,
Anne Rasmussen, Martin Stokes, Benjamin Zimmer
THE REVEALER: A DAILY REVIEW OF RELIGION AND THE PRESS: Jeffrey Sharlet, Jay
Rosen
RELIGIOUS WITNESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Anne Cubilié, Ann
Cvetkovich, Allen Feldman, Leshu Torchin, Sam Gregory, Meg McLagan, Renata Salecl
HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIGION AND MEDIA: Elizabeth Castelli, Musa Dube, Tom Keenan,
Minoo Moallem, Ann Pellegrini, Gayatri Spivak
For information call 212.998.3759.
Click here to view the detailed program.
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