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Past Events at the Center for Religion and Media
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: MEMORY, MEDIA, MARKETING
Spring 2005 Calendar of Events
ARTISTS' TALK
Friday, January 21, 4:00–6:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington
Square South, Screening Room
Islamic Visual Culture Series
Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari in Conversation
Media artist Walid Raad, co–curator of the Mapping Sitting exhibition, works in textual analysis, video and photography
projects. Akram Zaatari, co–founder of the Arab Image Foundation, is a video artist and cultural critic based
in Beirut.
In conjunction with Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and
Photography, A Project by media artists Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari / The Arab
Image Foundation. Exhibition on view at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, January 11–April 2, 2005
This exhibition explores 20th–century Arab portrait photography, investigating how
the portrait functioned in the Arab world not only to picture
individuals and groups, but also as commodity, luxury item,
and adornment.
Exhibition information: 212.998.6780, greygallery@nyu.edu
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian
Center and Grey Art Gallery.
SCREENING/ROUNDTABLE
Friday, February 4, 4:00–6:00 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
Islamic Visual Culture Series
Control Room (Jehane Noujaim, 2004; 90 min.)
This candid look at the Al Jazeera news network
at the onset of the Iraq War provides
an insightful analysis of how one media outlet provided coverage
to the Arab world.
Screening followed by a roundtable discussion
with producer Rosadel Varela, director Jehane Noujaim,
Jay Rosen (Journalism), and Khaled Fahmy (Middle Eastern Studies)
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian Center.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday, February 24, 6:00–8:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Dean's Conference Room, 12th Floor
The Search for the Panchen Lama: Ritual in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
Robbie Barnett (Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University)
Connections between media, religious ritual, and the exposure of official secrets
are revealed in this exploration of the six–year search for the child reincarnation of the most
important Tibetan leader to have remained in Tibet after China's
annexation of the area—and the lavish media accounts
produced by Chinese and exile Tibetan authorities.
LECTURE/ROUNDTABLE
Thursday, March 3, 6:00–8:00 pm
Kimmel Center for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South,
Room 800
Who Owns Native Culture?
Michael Brown (Williams College)
In a world in which cultural products and
processes are increasingly claimed and owned, the fate of
native culture or indigenous knowledge remains controversial.What
are the costs of instituting regimes of protection for native
cultures?Anthropologist Michael Brown will discuss the hazards of excessive control.
A panel discussion will follow.
Sponsored by Culture and Communication.
SCREENING/ROUNDTABLE
Friday, March 4, 1:00–4:00 pm
Kimmel Center for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South,
Room 804–805
P.O.V.on Faith and Documentary: The Education of Shelby Knox
A mainstay of PBS for 18 years, the award–winning P.O.V. series
has pioneered methods for connecting people and important issues
and each other using the power of exemplary documentaries.
Now on the cutting edge of exploring non–fiction storytelling
with web showcase P.O.V.'s Borders, P.O.V. continues
to create and support the use of non–fiction media for
positive social change
SCREENING
1:00–2:15 pm
The Education of Shelby Knox (Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt, 2005; 72 min.)
This coming of age story is about a religious Christian teenage
girl from Lubbock, Texas who begins to question her conservative
upbringing when she gets involved in a
campaign for better sex education in local public schools
which broadens into a fight for gay rights.
Shelby Knox will be present at this screening.
ROUNDTABLE
2:45–4:00 pm
The filmmakers and Shelby Knox will be joined
by POV Executive Director Cara Mertes and Macky Alston (Director,
Auburn Media).
ARTISTS' TALK
Friday, March 4, 4:00–6:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South, Screening Room
Islamic Visual Culture Series
Art, War, and Activism
Paul Chan and Mariam Ghani
Artist and activist Paul Chan traveled to Baghdad as a member of the Nobel Peace Prize–nominated
group Voices in the Wildness in December 2002. His video, Baghdad in No Particular Order, is based on footage he shot as war clouds gathered.
Media artist Mariam Ghani investigates places,
people, moments and ideas that inhabit, embody, or create the
border zones where cultures intersect. Her recent projects
examine reconstruction efforts and the elections in post–war
Afghanistan.
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian Center.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Monday, March 7, 7:00–9:00 pm
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Room 300
Recycling the Archive: When the Private Goes Public
Barry Flood (Fine Arts) Lorie Novak (Photography and Imaging/TSOA); Walid Raad
(Cooper Union). Moderator Shelley Rice (Photography and Imaging; Fine Arts)
What happens when archived materials surface in the public domain, when they
are exhibited, published or viewed in new contexts, often in remote parts
of the world, where they are received by strangers with very different standards
of behavior and propriety?
In conjunction with Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography, A Project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari––Arab Image Foundation,
exhibition on view at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, 100 Washington Square East, January 11–April 2, 2005.
Co–sponsored by Photography and Imaging (TSOA), Fine
Arts, Fine Arts Society, Program in Archival Management and
Historical Editing, History, Middle Eastern Studies and Grey
Art Gallery.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday, March 10, 6:00–8:00 pm
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Jurrow Hall
Mediating Tradition: Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of Visual Representation in Ghanaian Popular Video–Films
Birgit Meyer (University of Amsterdam; Free University, Amsterdam)
Pentecostal churches eagerly adopt new visual
technologies, competing for power with African priests and
chiefs who claim that much of their religious practice must
be kept secret. This talk highlights how these contrasting
attitudes toward visuality shape mass mediated public life
in contemporary Ghana.
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Monday, March 21, 3:00–5:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South, Screening Room
Islamic Visual Culture Series
Virtual Cairo: On the intersection of History and Imagination
Nezar AlSayyad (Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley)
Architect, planner and urban historian Nezar AlSayyad will screen and discuss selections from Virtual Cairo, a documentary film he produced for public television.
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian Center.
ARTISTS' TALK
Monday, March 28, 6:30–8:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South
Islamic Visual Culture Series
Walid Raad and Janet Kaplan in Conversation
Media artist Walid Raad, co–curator of the Mapping Sitting exhibition will
discuss his work with art historian and critic Janet Kaplan (Moore College of Art).
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian
Center and Grey Art Gallery.
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Friday, April 1, 4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 656
A Cinematic Present: Sensing the Sacred in the Real
Filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky
Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel
Dorsky's personal, meditative films, influenced by Buddhist
philosophy, have been shown in museums, galleries
and cinemathques internationally. He
is also the author of Devotional Cinema (Tuumba Press, 2003).
Screenings of a selection of Nathaniel Dorsky's
films will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker
and Deirdre Boyle (New School University).Moderator, Angela Zito (Center for Religion and Media).
ARTISTS' TALK
Friday, April 22, 4:00–6:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South, Screening Room
Islamic Visual Culture Series
History of the Present: Everything and Nothing and Other Works from the Ongoing Video Project, 'Untitled', 1999–2005"
Jayce Salloum
Media artist and curator Jayce Salloum will screen work from his ongoing multi–channel video installation
and videotape, the latest segment of which centers on the Palestinian
dispossession.
Co–sponsored by Kevorkian Center.
ARTISTS' TALK
Friday, May 6, 4:00–6:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South, Screening Room
Islamic Visual Culture Series
Masculinity and Image in Iran
Sadegh Tirafkan
Iranian photographer Sadegh Tirafkan's work
spans photography, video and collage, confronting history and
the individual through the lenses of myth, body, and calligraphy.
This event is co–sponsored with the Kevorkian
Center and Arts International as part of the Not at East artist
series, a project of the Islamic World Arts Initiative supported
by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
FIRST NATIONS, FIRST FEATURES
May 2005
A Showcase of World Indigenous Film & Media
In collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film and Media and the National Museum of the American Indian, Film and Video Center.
For dates and details: http://www.firstnationsfirstfeatures.org/
Click here to view the full schedule and film descriptions (.pdf).
Click here to view information about the MoMA screenings only (.pdf).
All events are co–sponsored with Anthropology,
Cinema Studies, and Religious Studies.
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