CULTURE, RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF CHANGE
SPRING 2009
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA

SCREENING/ ARTIST’S TALK

Thursday/ January 29/ 6-8 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 (NYU, Journalism) 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, Journalism
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SCREENING/DISCUSSION
In Search of Bene Israel

Friday/ February 6/ 4-6PM
Kevorkian Center Screening Room
50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street

In Search of Bene Israel Sadia Shepard (2008, 36 min)
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.

Click here to view a copy of the event flyer

Co-sponsored by NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center
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LECTURE/ SCREENING
Friday/ February 13/ 3-7pm
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 minutes)
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 with NYU's  Hagop Kevorkian Center

Hosted by The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University.

Click here to view a copy of the event flyer
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SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Friday/ February 27/ 4-6:30PM
5 Washington Place, Room 101

A Jihad for LoveParvez 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 Law and Society Program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences CSGS, SCA, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Kevorkian Center

Click here to view a copy of the event flyer

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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Friday/ March 6/ 2-5:30PM
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)

Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies (Tisch), SCA, CSGS, and Religious Studies.

Click here to view a copy of the event flyer
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FILM FESTIVAL
March 26-29
National Museum of the American Indian,
U.S. Custom 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/
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WEINER LECTURE
Thursday/ April 2/6-8PM
Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East

Three Modalities of Ethics
Webb Keane (Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan)

Co-sponsored by Anthropology
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Thursday/ April 9th/ 6:30-10PM
Cantor Film Center, Theater 101
36 East 8th Street

Take Out Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou (2008, 87 min.)
This film presents an unvarnished view of a day in the harsh life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant and deliveryman for a NYC Chinese take-out shop.
Post screening discussion with the filmmakers.

RSVP at apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or 212.992.9653 or visit www.apa.nyu.edu.

Co-sponsors: The Center for Media, Culture & History, The Museum of Chinese in America.

Click here to view a copy of the event flyer
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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday/ April 23/ 6-8PM
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
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Friday/ May 1/ 4-6PM
721 Broadway, Screening Room 006

Sync or Swim Cheryl 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. Click here to view event flyer.

Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

CULTURE, RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF CHANGE
FALL 2008
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA

SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Thursday / September 11 / 4-6 PM
715 Broadway, Gallatin Theater, Ground Floor

Zero Degrees of Separation (dir:  Elle Flanders, 2005, 85 minutes) 
This award-winning documentary looks at the Mideast conflict and Palestinian Occupation through the eyes of mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay and lesbian couples, interwoven with  the filmmaker’s story of her grandparents’ involvement in the founding of the state of Israel.

Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Co-sponsors:  Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Kevorkian Center, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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PANEL
Friday / September 12 / 3-5 PM
King Juan Carlos Center
54 Washington Square South, Screening Room

Screening Disabilities
Activist filmmakers and programmers discuss filmmaking and curatorial various initiatives they have launched in NY to open new discussions and understandings of disability.
Lawrence Carter-Long, Disabilities Network of NYC, disTHIS Film Series
Tony Di Salvo, Sprout Film Festival 
Alice Elliott, Filmmaker, Welcome Change Productions
Simi Linton, Disability /Arts, NYC
Ilana Trachtman,  Filmmaker, Praying with Lior

In collaboration with the Council for the Study of Disability (NYU) and the RealAbilities Film Festival
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SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Friday / September 19 / 4-6 PM
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street 

Lioness (dir: Meg McLagan, Daria Sommers, 2008, 82 minutes)
The stories of five women in the US military, sent to Iraq to defuse tensions with local civilians, only to face unintended consequences. Dubbed "Team Lioness",  they faced  counterinsurgency battles in Iraq and more long term challenges at home.

Post-screening discussion with the filmmakers.

Co-Sponsors:  Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies
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SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Monday / September 22 / 6-9 PM
721 Broadway, Room 108

SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability  (dir: Bonnie Klein, 2006, 71 minutes)
This humorous, passionate film tracks artists with diverse (dis) abilities as they create self-representations that transform stereotypes, revealing the complexities and richness of their lives.

Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker and George Stoney (TSOA).

Co-sponsored by Undergraduate Film and TV (TSOA) and the Council for the Study of Disabilities, in collaboration with the RealAbilities Disabilties Film Festival
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SYMPOSIUM
Friday / September  26 / 10 AM-6 PM
721 Broadway, Room 612 
Performance Studies Studio 

Cultural Conversions: Religion, Gender, and Latino/a America
This interdisciplinary event explores how the performance and politics of Latino/a religious identity is transformed by dissident embodiments of gender and sexuality.

Sponsored by the NYU Latino Studies Program and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Information:  212.992.9540 or gender.sexuality@nyu.edu
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CONFERENCE/SCREENINGS
NEW DOCUMENTARY FROM CHINA
Friday / October 17 / 1-6 PM / Saturday / October 18 / 10 AM -6 PM
721 Broadway, 6th floor
Cinema Studies Screening Room

REEL CHINA, 4TH DOCUMENTARY BIENNIAL
From the upheavals of Three Gorges Dam project, to the struggles of rural migrant children in the city, to the lives of women artists, or painful memories of the Cultural Revolution, this new work reveals a vibrant, struggling China that we rarely see.

Post-screening discussion with filmmakers Feng Yan, Cui Zi-en, Gu Yaping, Hu Jie, and scholars Lu Xinyu, Hao Jian.  Reel China continues Oct 23-25. Visit http://www.reelchina.net/

Co-sponsored by RECFoundation, Cinema Studies, East Asian Studies and the Columbia University Weatherhead Institute for East Asian Studies
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SYMPOSIUM/EXHIBITION
Tisch School of the Arts Day of Community
Monday / October 20 / 7-9 PM
Great Hall, Cooper Union

The Uses of 1968: Legacies of Art and Activism
The dramatic events of 1968 animate the  artists and activists today as they look to the future..  Panelists include Martha Rossler, Thulani Davis and others.

Sponsored by Photography and Imaging and Art & Public Policy (TSOA)

Exhibition: September 2 – November 22, 2008
Gulf + Western Gallery 721 Broadway 1st floor; Photography & Imaging 8th floor gallery
Funded by Nathan Cummings Foundation
Information: http://app.tisch.nyu.edu
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BOOK TALK
Friday / October 24 / 4:30-6:00 PM
19 University Place, Great Room

Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power  (Harper, 2008)
The story of how a small but powerful group shaped the faith of the nation in the 20th century and drives the politics of empire in the 21st century , reshaping our understandings of "fundamentalism."  

Author Jeff Sharlet in conversation with Heather Hendershot  (Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center)
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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday / October 30 / 6-8PM
Casa Italiana, 24 West 12th Street

Melani McAlister (American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University)

What would Jesus do NOW? Evangelicals, the Iraq war, and the Struggle for Position
Evangelicals debated the Iraq war over the last five years in media and popular culture, the policy recommendations of religious think tanks, and in sermons and songs. The divisions among them over US foreign policy is likely to have significant impact on the evangelical vote in November.
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SCREENINGS/DISCUSSION
UNIQUELY KAHNAWAKE
Thursday / November 6 / 6-9 PM; Saturday / November 8th / 1-4 PM
National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green

Club Native (Dir. Tracey Deer (Mohawk), 2006, 78 minutes)
The divisive legacy of government policies and lingering « blood quantum » ideals threaten to destroy the fabric of the filmmaker’s Kahnawake Reserve.

Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back (Dir. Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk) 2008, 56 minutes)
The filmmaker traces her family connections to a legendary Mohawk community established in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn for over 50 years.

Post-screening discussion with the directors and Audra Simpson, Mohawk, (Anthropology, Columbia University)

For information: www.nativenetworks.si.edu; 212 514-3737

In collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian
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FILM FESTIVAL
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival 
Friday- Sunday/ Nov 14-16 
American Museum of Natural History, 77th St at Central Park West
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead
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In association with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
SYMPOSIUM
Thursday/ November 13/ 12-4 PM
Rutgers University, Teleconference Room Alexander Library

Moving Pictures: The Celluloid Archive, Indigenous Agency, and the Work of Edward S. Curtis

An interdisciplinary reassessment of the recently restored 1914 silent film "In the Land of the Head Hunters," directed by Edward S. Curtis, featuring the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations of British Columbia.   With Alan Trachtenberg, Jolene Rickard, Alison Griffiths, and Kate Flint.
Information:  http://www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu
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SCREENING/PERFORMANCE
Friday / November 14 / 6–9 PM
American Museum of Natural History, 77th St at Central Park West

Edward S. Curtis, In the Land of The Head Hunters (1914, 2008, 78 minutes)
A newly discovered and fully restored copy of this landmark film of early cinema, reunited with its original orchestral score and dancing by descendants of the original Kwakwaka’wakw performers who are reclaiming this complex cultural heritage.

In collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History
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SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Wednesday / November 19th / 6-8PM
Cinema Studies Screening Room, 721 Broadway, 6th floor

Lover Other  (Dir: Barbara Hammer, 2008, 55 min.)
The story of Surrealist writer, photographer, World War II resister, and lesbian Claude Cahun and her partner, Marcel Moore, raises issues of art, politics and gender identity.

Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker

For information:  212. 998.4424

Sponsored by NYU Office of LGBT Student Services and CSGS
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SCREENING SERIES
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
Monthly Film Series
Screenings and discussions on films that bring about awareness, access, and dialogue.

For information:  www.apa.nyu.edu

RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE
SPRING 2008
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA

Roundtable Discussion
Monday/ January 28/ 5:00-7:00 pm
Jurow Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East

On Suicide Bombings by Talal Asad (CUNY Graduate Center)

In his recent book Asad scrutinizes the idea of “clash of civilizations,” and explores suicide terrorism. Discussion with Gil Anidjar (Columbia) and Harry Harootunian (NYU). Moderated by Michael Gilsenan (NYU).

Kevorkian New Book Series
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Distinguished Lecture
Thursday/ January 31/ 6:30-8:00 pm
Jurow Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East

Purnima Mankekar (UCLA)
Religious Affiliation, Identity, and Patriotism: Publics and Publicity after September 11, 2001

How have the semiotics of recognition and misrecognition of minoritized subjects changed since 9/11? This talk draws on interviews with Sikh and Muslim South Asians and media representations of the 9/11 attacks to trace how religious affiliations have mutated into racial identities.
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Screenings/Roundtable
Friday/ February 15/ 1:00-6:00 pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, 24 West 12th Street

The Cross & The Camera: the films of Gan Xiao’er

In the post-Mao era, religious life rarely appears in China’s new independent films.  Gan's Raised From Dust portrays the troubles of a rural Christian family whose father is dying. The documentary Church Cinema shows Christian audiences’ reactions to his feature.

1:00-2:45 pm: Raised from Dust / Juzi chentu (2007, 102 min)
3:00-4:30 pm: Church Cinema / Jiaotang dianying (2008, 60 min) PREMIERE
4:30-6:00 pm: Roundtable with filmmaker Gan Xiao’er, Ruoyun Bai (Media, Culture and Communicaion), Jonathan Kahana (Cinema Studies), moderated by Angela Zito (CRM)

Co-sponsored with East Asian Studies, Cinema Studies and Religious Studies
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Lecture
Thursday/ February 28/ 6:30-8:00 pm
Room 300, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East

Chris Pinney (Northwestern University)
Lessons From Hell: Karma and Governmentality in Popular Indian Imagery

Anthropology Department Colloquium Series.
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Roundtable Discussion
Monday/ March 3/ 5:30-7:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South

Impossible Archives

Based on their collaborative project, Index of the Disappeared, artists Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh discuss legal, historical, and artistic strategies for archiving secret, undocumented, and censored materials.  With Ramzi Kassem (Yale Law School), Martha Wilson (performance artist, director of Franklin Furnace Archive), and Orit and Tal Halpern (new media artists).

Kevorkian Visual Culture Series
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Screening/Discussion
Friday/ March 7/ 4:00-6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 006

The Reunion of All My Babies (George Stoney, 1953/2007, 55 min.)
55 years ago, the classic documentary All My Babies celebrated the work of legendary midwife Mary Frances Coley. A Reunion of All My Babies, recently filmed in Albany, GA carries on the original film’s challenge to public policy about maternity care.

Post-screenng discussion with filmmaker George Stoney, Bernard Coley and David Bagnall.

ADDED ATTRACTION!
Flesh in Ecstasy
Gaston Lachaise and The Women He Loved is a twenty-one minute film designed by Stoney and Bagnall to accompany a touring exhibit of the sculptor's works. This is its first New York screening.
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Lecture
Thursday/ April 3/ 6:00-8:00 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East

Steve Feld (University of New Mexico)
On the Acoustic Materiality of Modernity in Accra:
Union Drivers, Klaxon Honk Horn, and the Chronotope of the Road

Annette B. Weiner Memorial Lecture, Anthropology Department Colloquium Series.
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Artist’s Talk
Monday/ April 7/ 5:00-7:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South

Silence is Silver by Huda Lutfi (American University of Cairo)

One of Egypt’s most notable contemporary image makers with a feminist sensibility and a broad knowledge of Arab Muslim culture, in this work seeks to problematize censorship.

Kevorkian Visual Culture Series
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Screening/Discussion
Thursday/ April 10/ 6:00-8:30 pm
Kriser Room, 25 Waverly Place

Super, Girls! (Jian Yi, 2007, 123 min)

Jian Yi followed the second season of “Supergirls” China’s wildly popular response to “American Idol”. This intimate documentary shows young women changing their “destinies” as 400 million cell-phones hummed with votes. The government cancelled the show, citing its “vulgarity.”
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Colloquium

Objects of Affection: The Jewish Wedding in Media and Material Culture
Sunday/ April 13
Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16 St., New York
(Schedule to be announced)

As the most elaborately celebrated of Jewish life cycle events, weddings provide rich opportunities to consider the intersection of media and Jewish religious life.  Scholars, artists, curators discuss the visual and material culture of weddings including photography, videography, music and their portrayal on stage and in film, literature, art, and museum display.

Please click here to view a copy of the schedule.

For more information please contact Jeffrey Shandler at JAShandler@aol.com

Co-sponsored by The Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion of NYU’s Center for Religion and Media; and The Center for Jewish History.
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Screenings and Discussion
The First Thursdays Film Series
February 7, March 6, April 10 6:00-9:00 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Scholars and filmmakers discuss controversial and insightful independent feature and documentary films, spotlighting Asian/Pacific/American diasporic filmmaking and issues.

Organized by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
Information: http://www.apa.nyu.edu

RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE
FALL 2007
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA

LECTURE
Monday/ September 17/ 5-7 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South

Visual Culture and the War on Terror
W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)

This noted theorist of visual culture and iconology addresses the post- 9/11 image world.

Kevorkian Visual Culture Series

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday/ September 20/ 6-8 pm
King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South

Mediums, Media and Local Publics
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)

This talk, grounded in urban Delhi, explores how religion is experienced through traditional mediums, television images, and other visual and acoustic forms; and how the self might be “in possession” of itself.

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Thursday/ September 27/ 6-8 pm
Jurow Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East

Culture and Habit
Tony Bennett (The Open University)

Habit is increasingly defined against the Kantian concept of culture as a process of free and undirected self-formation in modern social and cultural theory.

Information: http://www.nyu.edu/media.culture/events/event.html?e_id=346

Organized with the Council for Media and Culture
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ARTIST TALK
Thursday/ October 4/ 12:30-1:45 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South

Return
Michael Rakowitz (Northwestern University)

The artist reopened his Iraqi-Jewish grandfather’s import-export store on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue to address the absence of any “Product of Iraq” in U.S. stores, signing the first contract in thirty years to important Iraq’s world-famous dates.

Kevorkian Visual Culture Series

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CONFERENCE
Thursday, Friday, Saturday/ October 4, 5, 6
Hofstra University

The Politics of Religion-Making

With Talal Asad (CUNY Graduate Center), Tomoko Masazawa (University of Michigan),  Hent DeVries  (Johns Hopkins) and Jose Casanova (The New School).

Information: http://www.hofstra.edu/CampusL/Culture/Culture_Religion_Making.cfm

Organized with Hofstra University

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Friday/ October 12 / 4-6 pm 
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South

Leila Khaled, Hijacker
Lina Makbol  (2005; 58min. Arabic & Swedish with English subtitles)

This film about a Palestinian woman hijacker challenges assumptions about those who resort to violence, as well as the current discourse on Islam and terrorism.

Followed by a discussion with director Lina Makboul.

In collaboration with the 2007 Tri-Continental Film Festival: Human Rights in Frames.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Monday/ October 15 / 6-8 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Rm. 006

Hip-Hop:  Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Byron Hurt (2007, 56 min)

A provocative look at masculinity and manhood in rap and hip-hop, where creativity collides with misogyny and homophobia, exposing the complex intersections of culture and commerce.

Followed by a discussion with director Byron Hurt.

Information:  www.scps.nyu.edu/mcghee

Organized with Media Studies, Paul McGhee Liberal Arts (SCPS)

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SCREENINGS/ROUNDTABLE
Friday / November 2 / 1-5 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Picturing Tibet: Film Practices and Critical Perspectives

Tibetan directors and writers within China work within a range of cultural repertoires, producing a cinema whose vernacular forms are rich in narrative innovation. We will screen a recent feature film, and discuss the history of cinema on Tibet within the Chinese context.

1:00 pm – Screening: Prince of the Himalayas (2006) 1 hr 48 mins. Subtitled in English.
This Chinese/Tibetan collaboration re-tells Shakespeare's Hamlet in ancient Tibet.
Directed by Sherwood Hu; Written by Sherwood Hu and Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang (Jangbu)
Followed by Q & A with the screenwriter, Jangbu (Writer and documentarian, Qinghai; Lecturer, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris)

3:30 pm – Roundtable moderated by Angela Zito (CRM)

Robbie Barnett (Columbia University)
"Reclaiming the Screen, Transcending the Serf: A Brief Survey of Tibetan Film in China"

Zhang Zhen  (Cinema Studies)
"Beyond the 5th Generation: New Directions in Filmic Representation of Tibet"

Patricia Schiaffini (Southwestern University)
"The Allure of the Big Screen: Tibetan Writers Turn to Film"

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A CONVERSATION
Wednesday/ November 28/ 6-8pm
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East

Torture and Democracy:
A Conversation with Naomi Klein and Lisa Hajjar (UC/Santa Barbara)

Journalist Naomi Klein’s books include No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (HarperCollins 2000)  and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books, 2007).  Lisa Hajjar’s most recent book is Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (California, 2005).

Photo ID is required for admission to the building.

Part of the Beyond Empire Project of Kevorkian Center and American Studies supported by NYU Humanities Council.

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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Friday/ December 7/ 4-6 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South

Postcards from Tora Bora
Wazhmah Osman and Kelly Dolak  (2007, 85min.)

A young Afghan-American woman returns to her childhood home and memories, searching for evidence of her former life, finding herself in an Afghanistan she barely recognizes, where the past collides with the present.

A discussion with the filmmakers will follow the screening.

Kevorkian Visual Culture Series

SECULARISM, MEDIA AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION
SPRING 2007
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA

Distinguished Lecture
Thursday/ February 1/ 6:30- 8:00 pm
Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

Saba Mahmood  (University of California, Berkeley)
Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror
In secular feminist discourse, religious traditions have been treated with skepticism, and even hostility; recent popular consensus—based on testimonials of Muslim women immigrants-- suggests that Islam is particularly culpable for the mistreatment of women. The talk explores this problem in the context of the US and European war on terror.
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Screening
Wednesday/ February 7/ 7:00- 9:00 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Natural Family Values
 (Frank Feldman and Troy Williams, 2007, 40 min.)

This film explores a small town in Utah that divides over a resolution defining "the natural family", as a group of "unnatural" families rise up in defiance.

A discussion between the filmmakers and Ann Pellegrini (CRM) will follow the screening.

Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
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Anthropology Colloquium
Thursday/ February 15/ 4:55 -6:10pm
Silver Center, Room 207, 100 Washington Square East

John Bowen  (Washington University)
Shaping Islam to France (and Vice-Versa?): Schools, Debates, and Sacrifice

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
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Screening/Discussion
Friday/ March 2/ 3:00-5:00pm
King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South

With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right  (David Van Taylor and Calvin Skaggs,1996, 100 min.)

An in-depth look at President Bush’s connection with evangelical Christianity.

A conversation between filmmaker David Van Taylor and journalist Jeffrey Sharlet (CRM) will follow the screening.

Screening/Discussion
Friday/ March 9/ 4:00-6:00pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Amongst White Clouds (dir: Edward Burger, 2005, 86 min.)

A journey into the hidden tradition of China’s Buddhist hermit monks living in scattered retreats dotting China's Zhongnan Mountain range raises questions about their former marginalization, and current rediscovery, as religious practices revive in the People’s Republic.

A discussion between filmmaker Edward Burger and Angela Zito (CRM) will follow the screening.

Anthropology Colloquium
Thursday/ March  29/ 4:55- 6:10pm
Silver Center, Room 207, 100 Washington Square East

Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies)
Giving Soul to Global Music: Morocco's Fes Festival Redefining World Religions

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
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Colloquium
Sunday/ April 29/ 9:00am -5:00pm
Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street 
Looking Jewish: Photography, Memory, and the Sacred

Scholars, curators and artists explore how photographic practices memorialize the "vanished world" of East European Jewry before the Holocaust.

In conjunction with an exhibition of the work of photographer Raphael Goldchain. 

Co-sponsored by The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU

Thursday/ January 18/ 12:30 -1:45pm
Jessica Winegar (Fordham University)
Bridges of Understanding?  The Recent American Interest in
Middle East Arts

What are the merits and pitfalls of relying on art exhibitions and public events to enhance understanding the Middle East and Islam?

Thursday/ March 8/ 12:30-1:45pm
Nada Shabout (University of North Texas)
Recovering Contemporary Iraqi Art

This lecture will focus on the physical recovery of over 7000 works of looted contemporary Iraqi art, and the historical invisibility of contemporary Iraqi art from art historical narratives.  

Thursday/ March 29/ 12:30-1:45pm
Annabelle Sreberny (University of London, SOAS)
Persian Letters and Their Global Purloining: the non-correspondence of  Mahmoud Ahamadinejad and George Bush

President George W. Bush never responded to Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s letter in spring 2006, but the letter does allow us to think about how different media alter the boundaries between the private, the personal, the public and the politics of dialogue.

Monday/ April 2/ 5:00-7:00pm
Ted Swedenburg  and Joel Gordon (University of Arkansas)
Bab al-Hadid/ Cairo Station: Reassessing an Egyptian Film Classic

Bab al-Hadid/Cairo Station (1958) is the consensus masterpiece of Youssef Chahine, Egypt's most well-known director internationally.  What does the film tell us about Egypt (and the Middle East) at mid-20th century?  And how does it play 50 years later?

Fall 2006 calendar of events
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY

Screening Series
King Juan Carlos Center Screening Room
54 Washington Square South

Gods Elect? Religion, Media and Elections in the Americas
Co-sponsored with the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

Friday, September 15, 4:10–6:00 pm
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (dir. Kim Barley and Donnacha O'Briain, 2002; 1 hr 14 min.)
Introduction: James Fernández (Director, KJCC); Discussion: Rafael Sánchez (CRM) Greg Grandin (History). Moderator: Diana Taylor (Hemispheric Institute, Performance Studies).

Friday, October 6, 4:10–6:00 pm
Our Brand is Crisis (dir. Rachel Boynton, 2005; 87 min.)
Discussion: filmmaker Rachel Boynton and Thomas Abercrombie (Anthropology).

Friday, October 27, 4:00–6:00 pm
State of Fear (dir. Pamela Yates, with Paco de Onís, and Peter Kinoy, 2005; 94 min.)
Discussion: the filmmakers and Tom Abercrombie (Anthropology)

Friday, November 3, 4:00–6:00 pm
Fall of Fujimori (dir. Ellen Perry, 2005; 83 min.)
Discussion: Diana Taylor (Hemispheric Institute) and Deborah Poole (Johns Hopkins University).
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Anthropology Colloquium
Thursday, September 14, 4:55–6:10 pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Jurow Hall,

Patricia Spyer (CRM Fellow)
Blind Faith: Painting Christianity in Postconflict Ambon, Indonesia.
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Screenings/Discussion
Reel China Biennial Documentary Festival
September 29 – 30, October 6

Fifteen years after the emergence of the new documentary movement in Beijing, dynamic and vital documentary-making has proliferated in China, reflecting current profound social transformations.

Friday, September 29, 2:00–7:00 pm
19 University Place

Premiere screenings
Doctor Zhang (dir. Huang Ruxiang, 2005; 90 min.. English subtitles)
A candid view of one man’s life after the Cultural Revolution, and his struggles to come to grips with his fate.

A House on a Plain (dir. Li Qiang, 2006; 18 min.. English subtitles)
Lao Li is the last farmer on land being fed to factories that provide bricks to build the new cities.

Discussion with Huang Ruxiang, Li Qiang, Andrew Ross (Social and Cultural Analysis), Angela Zito (CRM). Moderator: Zhang Zhen (Cinema Studies)

Co-presented with the Department of Cinema Studies. This Biennial Festival is organized by REC Foundation.
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Screening/Discussion
Thursday, October 5, 6:00–8:00 pm
Casa Italiana 24 West 12th Street

Sacco and Vanzetti (dir. Peter Miller, 2006; 80 min.)
The story of two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920 and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial.

Discussion with director Peter Miller, Nunzio Pernicone (Drexel University), and Pellegrino D’Acierno (Columbia University; Casa Italiana).

Co-sponsored by Tamiment Library and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University.
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Dorothy Nelkin Lecture
Monday, October 16, 6:00–8:00 pm
Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, Greenberg Lounge

Donna Haraway (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Companion Species in Science Studies: We Have Never Been Human

Sponsored by the School of Law and Department of Sociology.
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Anthropology Colloquium
Thursday, October 19, 4:55–6:00 pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 207

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (CRM Fellow)
The Gujarat Pogrom: Sacrifice, Anger and Vegetarianism

Co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Forum.
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Workshop
Friday, October 20, 4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 656
Moving Pictures: Fine Art, Early Cinema and the Politics of Culture
How do the dynamics between fine art and film, high and low culture affect the disciplines of art history, cinema studies, and cultural history?

Panelists: Howard Besser (Cinema Studies), Elizabeth Hutchinson (Barnard College), Nancy Mowll Mathews (Williams College), Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University).
Moderator: Charles Musser (Yale University).

Co-sponsors: Cinema Studies; Grey Art Gallery, NYU, in conjunction with the exhibition “Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910”, on view September 13 - December 9, 2006. For exhibition information, call 212-998-6780.
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Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, October 26, 6:30–8:00pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Jurow Hall

Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley)
Torture, Photography, and the Limits of the Secular

Photos from Abu Ghraib raise questions about the limits of a secular cultural relativism in the face of torture. Given the religious terms that increasingly shape such violence, are there frameworks beyond secularism to oppose coercion of every kind, including sexual?
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Anthropology Colloquium
Thursday, November 2, 4:55–6:00 pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 207

Rafael Sanchez (CRM Fellow)
Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas, Venezuela
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Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
Wednesday, November 8 – Sunday, November 12
American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 81st Street

This showcase for international documentaries encompasses a broad spectrum of work from films on human rights to experimental nonfiction. http://www.amnh.org/mead

Saturday, November 11, 12:45 pm
The Bimo Records (dir. Yang Rui, 2006; 91 min.)
Discussion: Yang Rui (director) and Angela Zito (New York University).

This stunning observational film by a Chinese filmmaker focuses on the lives of three Bimo clergy of the Yi people, one of the ethnic minorities living in the Da Liangshan Mountains of China. In this remote landscape, festivals and religious traditions remain an integral part of Yi life, and the Bimo clergy conduct rituals that bridge the worlds between mortals and ghosts. The old ways seem safe here, shrouded in the mist, but assimilation and modernity are eroding the traditional ways.
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The 13th Native American Film and Video Festival
Thursday, November 30 – Sunday, December 3
National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green

Feature films, shorts, documentaries, experimental videos and animations presented by Native media makers from Latin American, Canada, and the US.
For information: http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu
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Screening/Discussion
Friday, December 8, 3:00–5:00 pm
Einstein Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street (at 3rd Ave. and 9th St.)
The Tailenders (dir. Adele Horne, 2005; 72 min..)
In celebration of P.O.V.’s 20th Anniversary

The links between missionary activity, global capitalism, and media are explored through Gospel Recordings’ use of low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities. Discussion: Filmmaker Adele Horne, Cynthia Lopez (P.O.V.), Bambi Schieffelin (Anthropology), and Elizabeth Castelli, (Barnard College, Columbia University). Moderator: Faye Ginsburg (CRM, CMCH)

Co-sponsored by Undergraduate Film and Television.

Spring 2006 calendar of events
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY

Lecture
Thursday, January 26, 5:00-6:30pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 207
“We Salute Our Kargil Heroes:” Media and the Military on the Borders of India
Ravina Aggarwal (Smith College)
Drawing from media representations of the Indo-Pakistani war in Kargil and the subsequent use of the media by the Indian military, this lecture offers a critical perspective on border security and the democratic state.
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Roundtable/Screenings
Friday, January 27, 4:00-6:00pm
Einstein Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street (at 3rd Ave. and 9th St.)
Raw Television: Grassroots Video Activism in New York City 1974–1984
Panelists Deirdre Boyle (The New School), artist Jaime Davidovich, media maker Julie Gustafson, and George Stoney (TSOA). Moderator, Barbara Abrash (CMCH).
Political activism in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s inspired an electronic media revolution, as artists pioneered new community-based TV and explored innovative ways of making a documentary. This panel explores the roots and evolution of this home-grown local media.
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Screening and Discussion
Thursday, February 2, 7:00-9:00 pm
James Chapel, 3041 Broadway at 121st Street
Bonhoeffer (2003, 90 minutes)
The dramatic story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young German theologian who offered one of the first clear voices of resistance to Adolf Hitler.
A discussion with director Martin Doblmeier will follow the screening.
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Screening/Roundtable
Friday, February 17, 4:00-6:00pm
721 Broadway, Room 006
Laramie Inside Out (2004, 56 minutes)
In October 1998, in Laramie, Wyoming, college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die, sparking a nationwide debate about homophobia and hate crimes.
Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger, a Laramie native, returns to the site of her own closeted adolescence to investigate the impact of Shepard’s murder.
Discussion with director Beverly Seckinger (U of Arizona), author Romaine Patterson (activist and author), Rabbi Rebecca Alpert (Temple University) and Tyler Kinder, (NYU Class of 2006). Moderator, Janet R Jakobsen (Center for Research on Women, Barnard College)
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Covering Iraq: A Roundtable, originally scheduled for Friday February 24, 4:00 - 6:00pm has been postponed.

Instead, we invite you to the following event:

Luncheon Seminar:
Thursday / March 2 / 12:30-1:45
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South
Covering Iraq: A Talk by Jane Arraf
How has the war in Iraq changed war journalism; in turn, how has the
media affected our perception of America as an imperial power? Jane
Arraf, the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council of Foreign
Relations, will discuss her long career as a journalist based in Iraq
with CNN. Until recently, Jane Arraf served as CNN's Senior Baghdad
Correspondent; Arraf joined CNN in 1998 as Baghdad Bureau Chief,
covering Iraq through crisis, sanctions and finally - war. Following the 1991
Gulf War, she was the only Western correspondent based in Iraq. In
2001, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey to serve as the network's bureau
chief there, returning to be based in Baghdad in 2002. She was
expelled by the Iraqi government in the fall of 2002 after covering a
protest of families demanding information on their missing sons.
Following the end to major combat operations, Arraf returned to
Baghdad as Bureau Chief. Named Senior Baghdad Correspondent in 2004,
she spent much of her time on the front lines in Iraq before joining
the Council of Foreign Relations in 2005.

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Lecture
Tuesday, March 7, 6:30-8:30pm
Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway, 12th floor
Telling Stories Otherwise (or Revisiting My Father’s Visual Archive)
Laura Levitt (Temple University)
What do we learn from our parents’ visual archives? What does it mean to see what they cannot say? And what are the religious dimensions of these memories and their affective mediation via film and the visual?

Download the flyer here (PDF)
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Screenings/Roundtable
Friday, March 24, 10:00am-5:00pm
721 Broadway, Room 656
Ethical Direction: the Village Video Project with Wu Wenguang
What difference has 20 years of democracy in China's 700,000 villages made? Artist and filmmaker Wu Wenguang asks this question by putting video cameras in the hands of villagers, and documenting the process by which they observe newly democratic processes in village life, from elections to budget management.

Discussion with director Wu Wenguang, EU organizer Jian Yi, Richard Peña (Film Society of Lincoln Center) , Zhang Zhen (Cinema Studies), and Lisa Rofel (UC Santa Cruz), Moderator, Angela Zito (Center for Religion and Media, Religious Studies)

To view the readings list, CLICK HERE
Download the flyer here (PDF)
Download the flyer here (JPEG)
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Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, March 30, Time 6:30-8:30pm
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LOCATION OF THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CHNAGED. THE NEW LOCATION IS WHAT APPEARS BELOW.
19 Universilty Place
Lecture Hall Rm. 101
Islam in Europe: Lessons from Diasporic Judaism?
Sander Gilman (Emory University)

The Jewish experience in Europe over the past 200 years presents a tale of accommodation and rejection, violence and revitalization. How might this history be relevant to Europe's Islamic communities today?
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Lecture
Thursday, April 27, 6:30-8:30pm
Jurow Hall, Silver Center 100 Washington Square East
Seeing and Hearing:
Media/Domesticity/Religion in Urban Peripheries of Delhi, India
Veena Das (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)
How are religious sensibilities formed through acts of seeing and hearing media objects that are integrated into the routines of the everyday? Weaving together stories of media, religion and everyday life in urban slums in Delhi, Das asks: How do media enter the domestic and fold into the performance of religion?
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Screening and Discussion
Wednesday, April 19, 12:00-2:00pm
Krister Film Room, first floor
25 Waverly Place
Proof Chronicles
The Visual Poetics of Cultural Advocacy: Reflections on the Movement
Juno Gemes

Australian photographer Juno Gemes will screen Proof: Portraits from the Movement 1978, and discuss her recent show, "Proof: Portraits from the Aboriginal Civil Rights Movement - 1978-2003..." in the context of the history of photographic representations oof Indigenous Australians in the struggle for justice and cultural survival. http://www.portrait.gov.au/content/exhibit/proof/index.html

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Colloquium
Sunday, April 23. 10:00am-5:00 pm
Material Jews
A day-long colloquium exploring a wide range of material
culture practices in contemporary Jewish life.

Download the flyer here.
Download the program here.
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Conference
Wednesday, May 3 – Friday, May 5
Kimmel Center, 900 Series
Body Counts/Bodies Count
How are bodies mediated under different circulatory regimes? What role does religion play? From mass-mediated spectacles of war, epidemics, and natural disasters to the relation among sexual practices, affect and social change, this conference explores the intersection of embodiment, media and religion.

Click here to view the schedule.

Fall 2005 calendar of events
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: MEMORY, MEDIA, MARKETING

Friday/ September 23 / 1-6 pm
Tisch School of the Arts / 721 Broadway / Room 656
ARTISTS ROUNDTABLE SYMPOSIUM: For Interpretation: Experiments in Documentary
with 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
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Thursday / September 29 / 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Einstein Auditorium / 34 Stuyvesant Street, 1st Floor / at 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Gregg Bordowitz (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
"Grief, Sexuality and Volition"
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 Professsions
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Friday / October 7/ 4-6 pm
Tisch School of the Arts / 721 Broadway / Room 006
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: WITNESS: 'Video for Change: A Guide to Advocacy and Activism'
With 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.
Co-sponsored by The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law
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Friday / October 14 / 4-6pm
Tisch School of the Arts / 721 Broadway / Dean's Conference Room
PANEL DISCUSSION: Manhattan Hell House
with Omri Elisha (Anthropology), Heather Hendershot (Queens College), Debra Levine (Performance Studies), and Alex Timbers (Les Frères Corbusier).
Moderator: Ann Pellegrini (Performance Studies / Reigious 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
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Thursday / October 20 / 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Tisch School of the Arts / 721 Broadway / Room 006
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Janet Jakobsen (Center for Research on Women, Barnard College) "The Geneologies of Freedom/The Possibilities for Justice: Sexuality, Religion, and the War in Iraq"
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.?

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Monday / October 24 / 6-8 pm
NYU School of Law / Vanderbilt Hall / Greenberg Lounge / 40 Washington Square South
LECTURE: Bruno Latour (Ecole des Mines, Paris) "Nature at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Look at the Polotics of Science"
Dorothy Nelkin Lecture Series, NYU School of Law

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November 3-6, 12, 13
Museum of Natural History / 77th Street Between Columbus Ave and Central Park West
Margaret Mead Film Festival
FILM FESTIVAL: 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: www.amnh.org/mead

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Thursday / November 10 / 12:30 - 2 pm
Kimmel Center / Shorin Performance Space / 60 Washington Square South / 8th Floor
INTERNET 2 PERFORMANCE: Trespassing Boundaries: An Internet 2 Performance and live collaboration with the Univeristy 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.

Winter-Spring 2005 calendar of events
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA
CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: MEMORY, MEDIA, MARKETING

Through January 8
Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street
FILM SERIES: MONSTERS/MENTORS
“Monsters /Mentors” is a film series in conjunction with "The Demonic Divine in Himalayan Art and Beyond", the opening exhibition of the new Rubin Museum of Art. The series explores the theme of the “Monstrous protector” in world cinema, ranging from Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete to Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs.
For information: www.rmanyc.org
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Thursday/ January 13 / 7 pm
Auburn Theological Seminary/ Stewart Room/ 3041 Broadway
SCREENING: DRUMS OF WINTER followed by discussion with Leonard Kamerling
Faith on Film series
This beautiful film explores a rare dance language of the Yupik Eskimo people and offers an intimate look at this art, of which most have never caught a glimpse.  Drums of Winter is renowned because of its exquisite representation of the resilience of this indigenous people and their religious practice in the face of over a hundred years of colonialism and westernization. Producer and director Leonard Kamerling will attend the screening to continue the discussion of this great film after the screening.

Faith on Film is a FREE monthly film series showcasing extraordinary documentaries by independent filmmakers focusing on religious life and experience.

Faith on Film is a presentation of Auburn Media in partnership with New York University's Center for Religion and Media. Auburn Media is committed to promoting a broader voice in the world of religion and media and is a division of Auburn Theological Seminary's Center for Multifaith Education.


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Friday/ January 21 / 4-6 pm
Kevorkian Center/ Screening Room/ 50 Washington Square South (corner of Sullivan Street)
ARTISTS’ TALK: Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari in conversation
Islamic Visual Culture series
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-sponsors: Kevorkian Center and Grey Art Gallery.
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Friday/ February 4/ 4-6pm
Cantor Film Center/ 36 East 8th Street
SCREENING/ROUNDTABLE: CONTROL ROOM (Jehane Noujaim, 2004, 90 min)
Islamic Visual Culture series
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-sponsor: Kevorkian Center
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Thursday/ February 24/ 6-8 pm
Dean’s Conference Room/ 721 Broadway/ 12th floor
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Robbie Barnett (Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University)
“The Search for the Panchen Lama: Ritual in the Age of Electronic Reproduction”
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.
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Thursday/ March 3 / 6-8 pm
Kimmel Center/ 60 Washington Square South/ Room 800
LECTURE/ROUNDTABLE: Michael Brown (Williams College)
“Who Owns Native Culture?”
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
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Friday/ March 4/ 1-4 pm
Kimmel Center/ 60 Washington Square South/ Room 804-805
SCREENING/ROUNDTABLE: 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 conservtive 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).
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Friday/ March 4/ 4-6 pm
Kevorkian Center/ Screening Room/ 50 Washington Square
South (corner of Sullivan Street)
ARTISTS’ TALK: Paul Chan and Mariam Ghani: “Art, War, and Activism”
Islamic Visual Culture series
Artist and activist Paul Chan traveled to Baghdad as a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated group Voices in the Wilderness 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-sponsor: Kevorkian Center
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Monday/ March 7/ 7-9 pm
Silver Center/ Room 300/ 32 Waverly Place
PANEL DISCUSSION: “Recycling the Archive: When the Private Goes Public”
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?
Barry Flood (Fine Arts), Lorie Novak (Photography and Imaging/TSOA); Walid Raad (Cooper Union). Moderator Shelley Rice (Photography and Imaging; Fine Arts)
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-sponsors: Photography and Imaging (TSOA), Fine Arts, Fine Arts Society, Program in Archival Management and Historical Editing, History, Middle Eastern Studies and Grey Art Gallery
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Thursday/ March 10/ 6-8 pm
Silver Center, Jurow Hall, 32 Waverly Place
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Birgit Meyer (University of Amsterdam; Free University, Amsterdam) “Mediating Tradition: Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of Visual Representation in Ghanaian Popular Video-Films”
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.
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Monday/ March 21/ 3-5 pm
Kevorkian Center/ 50 Washington Square South (corner of Sullivan Street)
SCREENING/DISCUSSION: Nezar AlSayyad,"VIRTUAL CAIRO: On the Intersection of History and Imagination"
Islamic Visual Culture series
Architect, planner and urban historian Nezar AlSayyad (Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) will screen and discuss selections from Virtual Cairo, a documentary film he produced for public television.
Co-sponsor: Kevorkian Center
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Monday/ March 28/ 6:30-8:00 pm
Kevorkian Center/ 50 Washington Square South (corner of Sullivan Street)
ARTIST’S TALK: Walid Raad and Janet Kaplan in conversation
Islamic Visual Culture series
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-sponsors: Kevorkian Center and Grey Art Gallery
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Friday/ April 1/ 4-6 pm
Cinema Studies/ 721 Broadway/ Room 656
SCREENING/DISCUSSON: Nathaniel Dorsky: “A Cinematic Present: Sensing the Sacred in the Real”
Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky’s personal, meditative films, influenced by Buddhist philosophy, have been shown in museums, galleries and cinemathèques 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)
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Friday/ April 8/ 4-6pm  
Cinema Studies/ 721 Broadway/ Room 656
LECTURE: Ravi Vasudevan (The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi)
"Neither state, Nor faith: mediating community difference in Indian popular cinema"

How have we been asked to imagine ways of mediating and resolving sectarian differences in Indian society? Discussions in the social sciences have often drawn upon the role of modern state and civil society and, on the other hand, traditions of popular faith in generating visions of coexistence and sectarian transcendence. In this presentation, I look at the distinctive space offered by the cinema in the narration and resolution of differences. Working with systems of non-individuated community typage, popular film narratives subject these to the pressures of narrative transformation, of individuated psychology in character delineation, and a distinct imaginary location for the spectator. Reflecting on how systems of direct address impinge on textual and historical form, I draw attention to the possibility of the cinema engaging the spectator as a constituent element of its fictional world. The cinematic public inducted into fictional space provides a distinct imaginary distinguished from other public constellations in the rendering of a transcendent imagination. I extend this reflection into an account of how the star function plays itself out in terms of a virtual biography of community type, mediation and play, one intimately related to the forging and complication of cinematic memory.

Co-sponsored by NYU's Center for Media, Culture and History and Center for Religion and Media
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Saturday/ April 16/ 1:30-6:30 pm
Center for Religion and Media/ 726 Broadway/ Room 542
SCREENINGS/DISCUSSION: The Films of Lu Chuan
Internationally renowned director Lu Chuan, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Award (China’s equivalent to America’s Oscar), presents two of his most critically acclaimed films.

1:30
XUN QIANG (THE MISSING GUN) (2002, 120 minutes)
Small-town policeman Ma Shan wakes up one morning to discover that his gun
is missing. During his search, things take a sinister turn when his first love turns up dead and the bullet appears to be from his gun.

3:45 PM
KE KE XI LI (MOUNTAIN PATROL) (2004, 90 minutes)
A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.

5:15 – 6:30
A discussion with the filmmaker Lu Chuan
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Friday/ April 22/ 4-6 pm
Kevorkian Center/ Screening Room/ 50 Washington Square South (corner of Sullivan Street)
ARTIST’S TALK: Jayce Salloum: “History of the Present: Everything and Nothing" and other works from the ongoing video project, ‘UNTITLED,’ 1999-2005
Islamic Visual Culture series
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-sponsor: Kevorkian Center
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Friday/ May 6/ 4-6 pm
Kevorkian Center/ Screening Room/ 50 Washington Square South (corner of Sullivan Street)
ARTIST’S TALK: Sadegh Tirafkan: “Masculinity and Image in Iran”
Islamic Visual Culture series
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.
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Tuesday/ May 10/ 9-6 pm
Kimmel Center/ Room 802/ Washington Square South and LaGuardia Place
COLLOQUIUM: MEDIATING ANNE FRANK

Among the extensive representations of the Holocaust, Anne Frank's status is singular. No other victim of Nazi persecution looms so large, thanks to the wide readership of her Diary of a Young Girl. First published in Dutch in 1947 (in a version redacted by her father, Otto Frank), it has been translated into dozens of languages and has become one of the worlds most widely read books. Anne's diary has since inspired a host of mediations, ranging from ballet to rock lyrics, from broadcasting adaptations to Broadway musicals and Japanese anime, from documentary films to works of fiction that offer imaginary encounters with Anne. The building in which Anne's family hid during World War II has since become one of the most visited museums in Europe.

This colloquium will offer a series of presentations on Anne's diary and the various mediations it has inspired--focusing on the diary itself, the Anne Frank House, musical adaptations, and televised representations--as an exemplar of Holocaust representation and as a test case for understanding the intersection of Jews, media, and religion. What are the consequences of Anne's singular celebrity? How have mediations of her diary--originally written as a private, confessional work--transformed this work and her life into objects of devotion? How has her Jewishness been configured in these various representations, and how has her own coming of age informed approaches to learning about the Holocaust through her diary as an adolescent rite of passage?

Program
9:00
Greetings from the Center for Religion and Media: Angela Zito, NYU

9:30-11:00
Session I: A Young Girl and Her Diary: The Afterlife of Anne Frank
Moderator: Judith Goldstein, Vassar
Presenter: Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers
Discussants: Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Ramapo; Nicholas Mirzoeff, NYU; Sally Charnow, Hofstra

11:30-1:00
Session II: Secrets on Display: Diaries and Hidden Places at the Anne Frank House
Moderator: Barbara Rose Haum, NYU
Presenter: Jeffrey Feldman, NYU
Discussants: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, NYU; Ilana Abramovitch, Museum of Jewish Heritage; Jenna Weissman Joselit, Princeton

Lunch break

2:00-3:30
Session III: Anne Frank: Moving Images
Moderator: Barbara Abrash, NYU
Presenter: Aviva Weintraub, The Jewish Museum
Discussants: Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts; Faye Ginsburg, NYU; Faye Lederman, NYU; Leshu Torchin, NYU

3:30-5:30
Session IV: Sounds from the Secret Annex: Composing a Young Girl's Thoughts
Moderator: *TBA
Presenter: Judah Cohen, NYU
Discussants: Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College; Michael Beckerman, NYU

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reservations requested. RSVP: center.religion.media@nyu.edu
Note: The program is subject to change. For updated schedule and participant bios, visit: Modiya
Presented by the Working Group on Jews/Media/Religion of the Center for Religion and Media, New York University
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May 12 - 23, 2005
Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters at The Museum of Modern Art
SCREENINGS: First Nations/ First Features: A Showcase of World Indigenous Film and Media

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, The Museum of Modern Art, and NYU's Center for Media, Culture, and History/The Center for Religion and Media are presenting First Nations/First Features: A Showcase of World Indigenous Film and Media to be held in May in New York City and Washington, D.C. More than twenty groundbreaking feature-length dramatic films, short fictions, documentary and experimental works by an international group of Native directors will be screened in each city. The directors will be present to introduce and discuss their works.

• www.firstnationsfirstfeatures.org
• Download pdf flyer of full schedule and descriptions (2.5MB)
• Download printable pdf flyer of MoMA screenings only (120KB)
• Full schedule of screenings

Thursday/ May 12/ 1 – 4 pm
National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green
SYMPOSIUM: CULTURAL CREATIVITY and CULTURAL RIGHTS: ON and OFF SCREEN
The last decade has seen the rise of a remarkable new world cinema: indigenously directed feature films. In this symposium, some of the most distinguished artists in this field discuss how they shape their on-screen narratives and support and circulate their work off screen.

1 – 2:30
Panel 1: CULTURAL CREATIVITY ON SCREEN
How do traditional cultural worlds present a powerful aesthetic and narrative resource, as well as a possible point of tension for creative experimentation, in relation to a range of possible audiences?
Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua) Bolivia
Chris Eyre (Cheyenne-Arapaho) US
Anastasia Lapsui (Nenet) and Markku Lehmuskallio, Finland/Russia
Crisanto Manzano Avella (Zapotec) Mexico
Victor Masayesva, Jr. (Hopi) US
Merata Mita (Maori) Aotearoa/New Zealand
MODERATOR: Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora)

2:30 – 4
Panel II: CULTURAL RIGHTS “OFF SCREEN”
How is indigenous media production and circulation supported at different levels, from local communities, to national initiatives, to the international festival scene?
Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo) US
Nils Gaup (Sami) Norway
Patricio Luna (Aymara) Bolivia
Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) Canada
Randy Redroad (Cherokee) US
Sally Riley (Wiradjuri) Australia
MODERATOR: Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche)

For further information: 212-514-3737, www.nativenetworks.si.edu

6 pm
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City
SCREENING: Radiance (Rachel Perkins)
Introduced by Sally Riley (Wiradjuri), director of the Indigenous Unit of the Australia Film Commission.

8:30 pm
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City
SCREENING: Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, 1998, 104 min.)
Introduced by director Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho).

There will be additional screenings at NMAI of its new signature film A Thousand Roads; check FVC Programs for screening schedules.

For more information and the screening schedule, please visit the First Nations/First Features website. For inquiries, e-mail fvc@si.edu. Phone: 212-514-3737 or 202-633-6790.
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All events are co-sponsored with Anthropology, Cinema Studies, and Religious Studies
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
All events are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come basis. 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.
[download calendar here: pdf (164KB) doc (40KB)]

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: MEMORY, MEDIA, MARKETING
Fall 2004 calendar of events

Fri 9/10, 5 - 6:30
721 Broadway, 109
SCREENING: Investigation Of A Flame (2001, 45 min., Lynne Sachs)
An experimental documentary about the civil disobedience of the Catonsville Nine, the Berrigan brothers and other religiously-inspired peace activists, who burned draft records to protest the Vietnam War.
A discussion between the filmmaker Lynne Sachs and Father Daniel Berrigan will follow the screening.
This screening inaugurates Faith on Film, a series of documentary films exploring religion, spirituality and ethics, a project jointly sponsored with Auburn Media, a division of The Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Theological Seminary, Macky Alston, Director. For a complete listing of screening dates, see www.auburnsem.org

Thu 9/16, 6:30 – 8
Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway 12th fl
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Steve Feld (UNM)
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: "World Music" and the Commodification of Religious Experience
This talk explores what happens when sacred music is drawn into the expanding world market through three contested cases: (1) the “Qu’ran” track on the My Life in the Bush of Ghosts CD in the 80s, (2) Tibetan recordings by/with rock stars and their relationship with the explosion of Gregorian Chant music in the 90s, (3) the popularization of Appalachian “old time religion” recordings after 9/11.

Fri 10/1, 4-6 PM
National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green
SCREENING: The Land Has Eyes: Pear Ta Ma ‘On Maf (Vilsoni Hereniko, 2003, 87 min. Fiji.)
East Coast Premiere. This first feature by a Fiji native premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Set in the colonial era, it tells the story of a young native woman inspired by her tradition of the Warrior Woman to clear her family name and resist the imposition of Christian values.
A discussion with director Vilsoni Hereniko and producer Jeannette Paulson Hereniko will follow the screening.
Presented in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian. For information: www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/blue/atm_04.htm

Fri-Sat, 10/8-10/9
CONFERENCE: Sylvester: The Life and Work of a Musical Icon
An exploration of the impact of the work of Sylvester – the influential yet overlooked African American disco singer – on our understandings of music, race, celebrity, gender, and sexuality.
For information: www.nyu.edu/fas/gender.sexuality
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts.

Mon 10/11
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center/54 Washington Square South
SYMPOSIUM: El Salvador 1932: Historical Memory, Justice, Identity, and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
Scholars, indigenous leaders, and human rights experts examine the profound significance of the Matanza Massacre of 1932 on Salvadoran society.
For information: 212-998-8686 or www.nyu.edu/fsas/dept/latin
This event is part of a 3-day symposium sponsored by Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies, NYU; Nassau County Community College; CUNY Graduate Center.

Th 10/14, 6 – 8:30
Dean’s Conference Room, 12th Floor, 721 Broadway
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Judith Wiesenfeld (Vassar)
Projecting Blackness: African American Religion in American Film, 1900-1950
An exploration of how Americans encountered African-American religion in the first half of the 20th century through film – from Hollywood’s early talkies and black cast musicals, through race movies and World War II-era integration films.
Co-sponsor: Religious Studies Program

Fri 10/15 4-6 PM
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Sq. South, Screening Rom
SCREENING: Maria De Los Angeles (Shoja Azari/2003, 54min)
This “fictional documentary” provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Tooba, performance artist Shirin Neshat’s recent installation, exploring the confluence of Iranian and Western cultures and the blurring of boundaries between fiction and reality.
A discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
Co-sponsor: Kevorkian Center

Fri 10/29, 4 – 6 PM
please note new location
King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South
LECTURE: Melani Mcalister (George Washington University)
Evangelicals, Popular Culture, and Mideast Politics
Recent popular Christian novels and movies present events in the Middle East as part o the unfolding of God’s plan for the end times. These apocalyptic visions have helped reshape the terrain of modern evangelical culture in the region.
Co-sponsors: Department of Journalism and Kevorkian Center

Th 11/4, 5- 6:30
100 Washington Sq. East, 207
COLLOQUIUM: Joel Robbins (UCSD)
When Is A Christian?
What does it mean to call recently missionized non-Western people “Christian”? How do anthropological ideas about time and meaning distort understandings of the impact of conversion for Christianity in different cultural settings.
Sponsored by the Anthropology Department.

11/11-11/14 and 11/20-11/21
FESTIVAL: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
In conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History exhibition, “Totems to Turquoise,” the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival will showcase new films and videos by and about indigenous communities of the Northwest and Southwest, as well as a panel on Native American documentary production.
For information: 212-769-5305 or www.amnh.org/mead
Presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Fri 12/3, 4 – 6
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Sq. South, Screening Room
SCREENING: The Fence (Alexandre Trudeau, 2003, 58 min.)
Filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau spent a season working and living with families in Israel and the Palestinian Territory. The Fence is the intimate tale of two families on the opposing sides of the security barrier in the Jenin-Afula area.
A discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
Co-sponsor: Kevorkian Center, presented in partnership with the Canadian Consulate

Thu 12/9, 7pm
Stewart Room, Auburn Theological Seminary
on the Union Theological Seminary campus, 3041 Broadway
SCREENING: A Time for Burning (1966, Bill Jersey)
Filmed in 1966, a time of heightened black and white racial tensions in the United States, this program chronicles the debate, decision, and action by the white, middle-class congregation of the Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, NE, that attempted to bridge the barrier between themselves and the black community of the city. A Time for Burning, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1967, is considered a classic work of cinema verite. Made by distinguished documentary filmmaker Bill Jersey, this film speaks to enduring issues of racial tension and hope for reconciliation.

Discussion will follow screening.

The Faith on Film series is co-sponsored by the Center for Religion and Media and Auburn Theological Seminary.

Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street
EXHIBITION: The Demonic Divine
“ Monsters /Mentors” is a film series in conjunction with "The Demonic Divine in Himalayan Art and Beyond", the opening exhibition of the new Rubin Museum of Art. The series explores the theme of the “Monstrous protector” in world cinema, ranging from Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete to Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs.
For information: www.rmanyc.org

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Spring 2004 Events

CONFESSION/TESTIMONY/WITNESSING
screening
Friday January 30, 3:00-5:00 pm
Kevorkian Center/Screening Room
50 Washington Square South
HUMAN WEAPON
Ilan Ziv, 55 minutes, 2002
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-sponsor: Kevorkian Center
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distinguished lecture
Thursday February 12, 6:30-8:00 pm
Dean’s Conference Room/ 721 Broadway/ 12th floor
SECULAR CHILDHOOD(and other religious subjects)
Ann Pellegrini (Performance Studies/Religious Studies)co-sponsor: Performance Studies; Tuesday Night Forum Series
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screening
Friday February 27, 4:00-6:00 pm
721 Broadway/ 6th floor
FORGET BAGHDAD
Samir, 2002, 110 minutes
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-sponsor: Kevorkian Center
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roundtable discussions
Friday March 12, 1:00-5:00 pm
Kimmel Center for Student Life
Shorin Performance Studio/ room 802
60 Washington Square South
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
Elizabeth Castelli (Center for Religion and Media), Heather Hendershot (Queens College), James Shapiro
(Columbia), Adam Becker (Religious Studies)
3:15-5:00 pm
Debating The Passion of the Christ
Stuart Klawans (film critic, The Nation), Toby Miller (Cinema Studies), Tony Rossi (The Christophers), Jeff Sharlet (The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press)
co-sponsor: The Interfaith Center of New York
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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 www.exitart.org
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distinguished lecture
Thursday March 25, 6:30-8:00 pm
Dean’s Conference Room/ 721 Broadway/ 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.
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screenings/roundtables
Thursday April 1- Friday April 2
Lights! Reverence! Action! Picturing Faith in the Pursuit of Justice
Thursday April 1
Bronfman Center/ 7 East 10th Street
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
Shorin Performance Studio/ room 802
60 Washington Square South
10:00 am-12:00 noon
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), Macky Alston (Auburn Theological Seminary)
1:30-3:30 pm
Freedom Machines: Bodies, Technologies and the Spirit of Interdependent Living
Jamie Stobie and Janet Cole, 2003, 55 minutes
This screening will be followed by discussion with the filmmakers, Simi Linton (Disability/Arts), LisaRose Hall (Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities), and others.
co-sponsors: Bronfman Center for Student Life; Working Films
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conference
Religious Witness: The Intimate, the Everyday, the World
Thursday, May 6 - Saturday May 8, 2004
Kimmel Center for Student Life
60 Washington Square South

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The notion of witnessing undergirds many religious traditions. It may invoke modalities beyond the visual, as the primary significance of sound in Judaism and Islam makes clear. With the proliferation of a variety of media technologies such as video, film, audiocassette, miniaturized landscapes, and internet, the power of religious witnessing is amplified and sometimes transformed.
This conference explores the power of both visual and sonic imagery across a range of media forms -- to produce "special affects" that help generate religious sensibilities in different social arenas and that facilitate the transportation of religious experience through time. These range from the intimate world of life cycle celebrations, to the permeation of everyday life with sacred sound, to the centrality of mediated testimony in projects concerned with religious rights, humanitarianism, and global justice.
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Thursday, May 6
SESSION I: THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE
1:30-5:00 pm Kimmel Center, 405/406
1:30-2:30 pm
Presentation: Joan Branham, The Temple that Won't Quit: Constructing Sacred Space in Orlando's Holy Land
3:00-5:00 pm
Other Holy Lands, Other Experiences
Moderator: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Respondents: Barry Flood, Angela Zito
Discussants: Adam Becker, Elizabeth Castelli, Judah Cohen, Jeffrey Feldman, Miriam Peskowitz, Jeremy Stolow
KEYNOTE ADDRESS I
Stewart M. Hoover, Media, Meaning, and Religion: Research on Identities of Daily Life
5:30-7:00 pm Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion
RECEPTION
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Friday, May 7
SESSION II: MEDIATING RITUALS
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Kimmel Center, 405/406
Moderator: Barbara Abrash
9:00 – 10:30 am
Presentation: Jeffrey Shandler, Rites of the Beholder: ‘Home Movies’ as Witness in American Jewish Life Cycle Rituals
Discussants: Faye Ginsburg, Michael Renov
10:45 am -12:30 pm
Presentation: Alan Berliner, “Like My Father Before Me":
(Old and New) Home Movies in the Films of Alan Berliner
Presentation: Melissa Shiff and Louis Kaplan, Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding: Projecting Media, Reinventing the Rite
Discussants: Michael Renov, Jeffrey Shandler
LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION
12:45 – 1:45 pm Kimmel Center, 405/406
Presentation: Jeffrey Sharlet and Jay Rosen, The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press
SESSION III: CIRCULATING ISLAMS
2:00-4:30 pm Kimmel Center, 405/406
Moderator: Ella Shohat
Panel:
Brian Larkin, Ahmed Deedat and the Rise of Islamic Pentecostalism
Flagg Miller, Transcending Invention in Islam: Circulation, Textual Authority, and the Politics of Audiocassettes in Yemen
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Negotiating the Forbidden: Women and Sex in Iranian Cinema
Discussant: Michael M.J. Fischer
KEYNOTE ADDRESS II
5:00-6:30 pm Kimmel Center, 405/406
Patsy Spyer, Orphaning the Nation: Violence, Sentimentality, and Media in the Wake of Ambon's War
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Saturday, May 8
SESSION IV: THE SOUND OF ISLAMIC WORLDS
9:30 am -12:00 noon, Kimmel Center, 905/907
Moderator: Michael Gilsenan
Panel:
Magnus Marsden, Mahfils and Musicians: New Muslims in Chitral Town, North Pakistan
Martin Stokes Wedding Bands, Media and Turkey's Islamist Public Sphere
Anne Rasmussen, Islamic Musical Arts and the Aesthetics of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Indonesia
Benjamin Zimmer, For the Love of the Prophet: New Media Models of Conspicuous Piety for Indonesian Children
Discussant: Birgit Meyer
LUNCH
SESSION V: TECHNOLOGIES OF WITNESSING
1:30-3:30 pm, Kimmel Center, 905/907
Moderator: Meg McLagan
Panel:
Anne Cubilié, The Great Divide in Human Rights: Testimony and Witnessing Between Academic and Practitioner
Leshu Torchin, Ravished Armenia: Early Film Activism
Discussants: Sam Gregory, Tom Keenan, Minoo Moallem
SESSION VI: CIRCUITS OF SUFFERING
4:00-6:00 pm Kimmel Center, 905/907
Moderator: Ann Pellegrini
Panel:
Ann Cvetkovich, Making Testimony Matter: The 9/11 Oral History Archive
Allen Feldman, Memory Theaters, Virtual Witnessing and the Trauma Aesthetic
Discussants: Elizabeth Castelli, Musa Dube, Renata Salecl.


Fall 2003 Events

CONFESSION/TESTIMONY/WITNESSING
Screening/Panel
Thursday, September 18, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
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-sponsors: Department of Art and Public Policy/TSOA, Asian/Pacific/American Studies.

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Artists Roundtable
Thursday, September 25, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING 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-sponsors: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Religious Studies, General Studies (SCPS), Photography + Imaging (TSOA), Kevorkian Center, Grey Art Gallery, and Al-Jisser.

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Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday,October 2, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway, 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-sponsor: Religious Studies.

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Panel Discussion
Thursday, October 9
For time and location, call 212-998-6780
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-sponsors: 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.

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Screening/Discussion
Friday, October 17, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Cinema Studies, 721 Broadway, Room 656
RESISTING PARADISE
Barbara Hammer (2003, 80 minutes)
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-sponsors: American Studies, Art and Public Policy, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

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Distinguished Lecture
Monday, October 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East
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.

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Screening/Discussion
Friday, November 21, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Kevorkian Center, 70 Washington Square South
WANDER
Danae Elon (2003, 75 minutes)
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-sponsor: Kevorkian Center.

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Screening/Discussion
Thursday, December 4, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
King Juan Carlos I 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-sponsor: International Center for Advanced Studies.

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Screening/Discussion
Friday, December 5, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
MORNING SUN
Carma Hinton, Geremie R. Barm, Richard Gordon (2003, 120 minutes)
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-sponsors: 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.

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Workshop
Wednesday-Thursday, December 10-11
Casa Italiana, 66 W. 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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Fall 2001 Events

Monday, September 10, 6:00-8:00 pm
King Juan Carlos I Center, 53 Washington Square South

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION - Grupo Cultural Afro Reggae

Jose Junior and Anderson will speak on the music and cultural politics
of the Grupo Cultural Afro Reggae (Rio de Janeiro) and show
videotaped performances.

Co-sponsored by American Studies, CLACS, King Juan Carlos I Center,
Music, Performance Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese.

Friday, September 21, 1:00-2:30 pm
Avery Fisher Media Center, 70 Washington Square South, Bobst Library 2nd floor

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION - Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director, WITNESS

Books Not Bars: Grassroots organizing against the prison industry
A presentation of the WITNESS program's pioneering work using youth video
in advocacy campaigns. www.witness.org

The Books Not Bars video is a co-production of WITNESS, the Ella Baker Center
for Human Rights and the Columbia Human Rights Institute.

Co-sponsored by American Studies and Center for Advanced Technology.

Thursday, September 27 – Friday, September 28
MINICONFERENCE:

The Traffic in Kinship: Culture, Politics, and Images in Transnational Adoption
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Thursday, September 27

LECTURE - Barbara Yngvesson, Prof. of Anthropology, Hampshire College
5:00–6:30 pm - Jurow Hall, Main Building, 100 Washington Square East

'Almost Swedish: The Body within the Body of International Adoption'
How are choice and desire embodied in representations of international
adoptees who cross First/Third World borders, and what challenge does
this present to an "international order of things"?

SCREENING - First Person Plural (2000, 57 min.) Deann Borshay Liem
7:30–9:30 pm - Kriser Film Room 25 Waverly Place, first floor

Followed by discussion with Barbara Yngvesson and Eleana Kim (NYU)
Deann Borshay Liem, one of thousands of South Korean orphans adopted by
American families, chronicles her journey to locate her roots and reconcile a dual heritage.

Friday, September 28
Jurow Hall, Main Building, 100 Washington Square East

SCREENINGS - 10:00 am–12:00 pm

Made in China, (47 min. 2000) Karin Lee
Precious Cargo, (56 min., 2001) Janet Gardner, Pham Quoc Thai
Screenings will be followed by discussion with BarbaraYngevesson,
Lisa Cartwright, Eleana Kim, and Toby Volkman

PANEL - 2:00–3:30 pm

Toby Volkman, Fellow, Center for Media, Culture and History
Transnational Adoption and the Invention of Identity
Eleana Kim, Department of Anthropology
Re-Visualizing the Family: Korean Adoptee Film and Video

DIGITAL PRESENTATION - 4:00–5:30 pm

Lisa Cartwright, Professor of English and Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
Director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies

'The Politics of Images in Transnational Adoption: Pictures of Waiting Children'
The function of photographic and video images of "waiting children" in the transnational adoption markets of Eastern Europe.

Co-sponsored by American Studies, Institute for Law and Society, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Thursday, October 11 - Friday, October 12
MINICONFERENCE

Voices From Home:
30 Years of Image-Making and Community Building in Appalachia - Celebrating Appalshop's 30th Anniversary
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Thursday, October 11

SCREENING - Stranger With a Camera (55 minutes, 2000) Elizabeth Barret
6:30-9:00 pm - Donnell Media Center, 20 West 53rd Street

A discussion with George Stoney and the filmmaker will follow the screening.

Friday, October 12

PANEL - Grassroots Globalization: Land, Labor, and Politics
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - 721 Broadway, Room 656

Deborah Willis, Photography + Imaging, NYU
Majora Carter, Sustainable South Bronx
Fred Ritchin, ITP/Photography + Imaging, NYU
Andrew Light, Environmental Philosophy, NYU
Pamela Nixon, West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection

SCREENING - Grassroots Globalization: Land, Labor, and Politics
1:00 - 2:15 pm - 721 Broadway, Room 656

Chemical Valley (60 minutes, 1991)
Filmmaker Mimi Pickering will be present to discuss her film.

PANEL - Strangers and Cameras: The ethics of representing community
2:30-4:30 pm

Lorie Novak, Photography + Imaging, NYU
Wendy Ewald, Senior Research Associate, Center for Documentary Studies and the
Franklin Center at Duke University; and Senior Fellow, Vera List Center, New School University
Julia Ballerini, independent scholar, photo historian
Lillian Jimenez, Latino Educational Media Center
George Stoney, Undergraduate Film and Television, NYU

SCREENINGS
7:00 - 9:00 pm - Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Coal Bucket Outlaw (30 minutes, 2001) Tom Hansell
Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song (60 minutes, 2001) Mimi Pickering
Discussion with the filmmakers will follow the screening.

Co-sponsored by Photography + Imaging, Center for Art and Public Policy, TSOA;
American Studies.

Thursday, October 25 - Saturday, October 27
CONFERENCE

Pacific Islands, Atlantic Worlds
2001 Pacific Islands Studies Symposium
critical discussions, exhibits, film screenings, and cultural performances

Sponsored by The Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute
For information, contact Fannie Chan 212.998.3700, web: www.apa.nyu.edu

Friday, November 2 - Saturday, November 10
American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street and Central Park West

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
The 25th anniversary of the longest-running international
documentary film and video festival in the United States.

For information phone: 212.769.5305, e-mail: meadfest@amnh.org,
web: www.amnh.org/mead.

Tuesday, November 27 - 1:00-3:00 pm
King Juan Carlos I Center, 53 Washington Square South

MEDIA WORKSHOP - Eye of the Condor
A workshop presentation by members of a video collective focused
on indigenous peoples and media self-determination in Bolivia.

For more information, contact Carol Kalafatic, Film and Video Center
National Museum of the American Indian, (212) 514-3734, e-mail: kalafaticC@si.edu

Co-sponsored by CLACS

Friday, December 7 - 1:30-3:00 pm
Avery Fisher Center, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, 2d floor

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION - Alison Cornyn and Sue Johnson, Picture Projects

360degrees.org _ Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System
a digital documentary by Picture Projects, a storytelling site, challenging perceptions
about who is in prison today and why, and how changes can be made.

Co-sponsored by American Studies

Spring 2001 Events

THE SOCIAL SPACE OF MEDIA - TRANSFORMING PUBLIC MEDIA 3

Thursday - Sunday January 11-14
Greenberg Lounge Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South

Rethinking Public Media in a Transnational Era
A conference that brings together an international group of media scholars, policy makers, and practitioners whose work engages with the history, practice, and theory that shapes, in a variety of national and regional contexts, what we have come to know as public television, to address questions of cultural policy, media, and the public sphere.

Funded by the Ford Foundation.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Institute for Law and Society.

Friday, February 16, 4:00 -6:00 pm - EVENT CANCELLED
La Maison Francaise, 16 Washington Mews

LECTURE - Rony Brauman, Medecins Sans Frontieres

Humanitarianism and politics in the 1990s: Chronicle of a decade-long crisis
Rony Brauman, former president of Medecins Sans Frontieres, writes widely on crisis relief, human rights, and the media.

Co-sponsored by the La Maison Francaise, NYU Humanities Council, International Trauma Studies Program, ICAS.

Friday, February 23, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Jurow Hall, 100 Washington Square East

culture.jamming@nyu
curated by Meg McLagan, Anthropology, NYU.

An exploration of the phenomenon of "culture jamming" -- culturally subversive anti-corporate activism oriented toward reclaiming public and virtual spaces from the encroachments of commercial messages and sponsorship.

Panels and presentations - Wendy Brawer, greenmap.org, Bill Brown, Surveillance Camera Players, Carrie McLaren, Stay Free magazine, Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner, Dyke Action Machine, Bill Talen a.k.a. Reverend Billy, founder of the Church of Stop Shopping and others.....

6:00 - 8:00 pm Postmasters Gallery 459 West 19th Street

An Engineer's Report from the Bureau of Inverse Technology
A performance by technoartist and design engineer Natalie Jeremijenko,
Center for Advanced Technology, NYU

Co-sponsors: Anthropology, Center for Advanced Technology, Cinema Studies, Performance Studies, and the Technologies of Perception faculty colloquium.

For more information see the complete conference schedule.

March 2-3
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St

The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society in Transformation - An International Symposium
Sponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies and the International Center for Advanced Studies.

Friday, March 2, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
On the Beat (1995)

Director Ning Ying will introduce and discuss her film.

Saturday, March 3, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Scholarly panels with Chinese directors.

Principal participants:
Ah Nian (China), Yomi Braester (U of Washington, Seatle), Shuqin Cui (SMU), Sheldon Lu (U of Pittsburgh), Zhijie Jia (Harvard), Linda Chiu-han Lai (City U of Hong Kong), Lu Xuechang (China), Ning Ying (China), Augusta Palmer (NYU), Richard Pena (Film Society of Lincoln Center), Yaohua Shi (U Mass.), Wang Quan'an (China), Xudong Zhang (NYU), Xueping Zhong (Tufts), Yingjin Zhang (Indiana U, Bloomington), Zhen Zhang (NYU) Symposium Chair.

In conjunction with this event, a film series co-organized by Zhang Zhen and Zhijie Jia will be exhibited at the Walter Reade Theater at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, February 23-March 8.
For information, visit The Film Society of Lincoln Center festival page or call (212) 875-5600.

March 24-25
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Eye and Thou: Jewish Autobiography on Film
An exploration of Jewish identity through screenings of exceptional works, each followed by a conversation between the artist and a noted scholar.

Saturday, March 24, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Screening: Alan Berliner The Sweetest Sound (60 min, 2000)
Moderator: Stuart Klawans, critic and author, Film Follies (1999)
Commentary by Phillip Lopate, author, Totally, Tenderly, Tragically (1998)

Sunday, March 25, 10:00 am - 9:30 pm
Gregg Bordowitz, Fast Trip, Long Drop (54 minutes, 1993) with Jonathan Boyarin author, A Storm From Paradise: the Politics of Jewish Memory (Minnesota, 1994)
Peter Forgacs, The Maelstrom (60 min, 1998) with Michael Renov, University of Southern California
Judith Helfand, A Healthy Baby Girl (57 minutes, 1997) with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Performance Studies, NYU
Lynn Hershman, The Electronic Diaries: First Person Plural (75 min, 1996) with Ruby Rich, critic and author Chick Flix (1999)

Co-sponsors: USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Role of Jewish Life in American Culture; and the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, NYU Funded by the Righteous Persons Foundation and Carol Brennglass Spinner .

For more information see the complete festival schedule.

April 12-13

Tibetan Dispatches: Reporting on the Roof of the World

Thursday, April 12
Ben Snow Dining Room, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South

Keynote presentation: Orville Schell
author, Virtual Tibet; Dean, School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley

Introduction: Jay Rosen - Chair, Dept of Journalism, NYU
Respondent: Jamyang Norbu - Author, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes; co-founder, Amnye Machen Institute, Dharamsala, India

Friday, April 13,
Dean's Conference Room, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 12th floor

10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Beyond Shangri-la: New narratives, new voices

Tseten Wangchuk - Voice of America, Tibet service
Georges Dreyfus - Williams College, Dept. of Religion
Palden Gyal - Radio Free Asia, Tibet service
Nima Dorjee - World Tibet Network News, editor
Losang Rabgey - SOAS, London, Dept. of Anthropology; freelance radio producer

Moderated by Diane Winston - Pew Charitable Trust, Program Officer, Religion

2:00-4:00 pm

Writing rights: Tibet, human rights reporting, and US foreign policy

Jaime Florcruz - Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, NY; Beijing bureau chief, TIME magazine (1990-2000)
Cao Changching - freelance editor and writer; co-author, Tibet Through Dissident Chinese Eyes
Mary Daly - Mary Daly and Associates, NYC
Bhuchung Tsering - Director, International Campaign for Tibet
Robert Barnett - Visiting Fellow, East Asian Institute, Columbia University; founder, Tibet Information Network

Moderated by Susan Linfield - NYU Journalism

Co-sponsored with the Department of Journalism
Funded by The Ford Foundation

For more information see the complete conference schedule.

Fall 2000 Events

'TRANSFORMING PUBLIC MEDIA 2 - BODY POLITICS'

Monday, September 18, 7:00-9:00pm
Session 1 in a series of Culture Jamming sessions - Network_Art_Activism
at Location One, 26 Greene Street

GYNADOME: A Separate Paradise
Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner, Dyke Action Machine
Moderator, Meg McLagan, Anthropology

Wednesday September 20, 6:30-8:30pm
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South

'Children of the Disappeared in Argentina'
Julio Pantoja speaks on his photographs

'The DNA of Performance: Representing the Disappeared'
Diana Taylor, Chair, Performance Studies, TSOA presents

Moderator, Fred Ritchin, Dept. of Photography & Imaging and ITP, TSOA
Co-sponsors: Depts. of Photography & Imaging and Performance Studies, TSOA

In association with Tucumán: The Children TWENTY YEARS LATER
Photographs by Julio Pantoja
August 25th - October 4th 2000, Gulf & Western Gallery 721 Broadway Lobby
for detailed information 212-998-1930, www.nyu.edu/tisch/photo

 

Monday, October 2, 6:30-8:00pm
Cantor Film Center 36 East 8th Street

U.S. Premiere
D'Ailleurs Derrida a film by Safaa Fathy (2000, 75 minutes, French with English subtitles)
A discussion with Derrida which takes place in Algeria, France, and California
reservations required

This film is part of DERRIDA MONTH, October 2-October 26
Sponsored by the Department of Art & Art Professions
for full program information call 212-998-5799, www.nyu.edu/projects/derrida

Friday, October 6, 5:00-7:00pm
721 Broadway, Room 006

'Cultures Out of Place: German Indians, Cuba in Exile, and other projects....'
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Conceptual Photographers

Moderator, Lorie Novak, Chair, Photography & Imaging, TSOA

Co-sponsor: Photography & Imaging, TSOA

 

Thursday, October 19, 4:55-6:10pm
Main Building, 100 Washington Square East, Room 713

'Ethnography Meets Virtual Reality: Trinidad, Religion, and the Internet'
Daniel Miller, Anthropology, University College London

Co-sponsor: Anthropology Colloquium

 

Monday, October 23, 7:00-9:00 pm
Session 2 in a series of Culture Jamming sessions - Network_Art_Activism
at Location One, 26 Greene Street

Apeshit and Agenda for a Landscape
Leah Gilliam, Bard College, New Media Artist

National Philistine
Paul Chan, Fordham University, New Media Artist

Moderator, Somi Roy, IFS

Presented with International Film Seminars

 

Tuesday, October 31, 12:30-2:00pm
ITP, 721 Broadway, 4th floor

Chiapas Media Project Screening:
Videos Produced by Indigenous Communities in Resistance.
Alex Halkin, founder and co-director Chiapas Media Project

Chiapas Media Project provides video equipment and training for marginalized Indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. These videotapes offer a unique firsthand perspective on their lives and struggles.

Presented with ITP

 

Friday, November 3 - Sunday, November 11
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival 2000
The American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 77th street

Showcasing international, independent documentary film and video
Special events this year include:

Films and discussion with Mira Nair

'Scientific fiction' documentaries of Jean Painlevé (1902-1989)

Visible Difference: Framing and Claiming Disabilities

for complete information: 212-769-5305 or www.amnh.org/mmead

 

Monday, November 13, 7:30-9:30 pm
Session 3 in a series of Culture Jamming Salons - Network_Art_Activism
at Location One, 26 Greene Street, SoHo

'Things We Think Think: On the Delegation of Interpretation and Responsibility in Information Networks'
Natalie Jeremijenko, NYU Center for Advanced Technology (C.A.T.)

Moderator, Professor Meg McLagan, NYU Program in Culture and Media / Anthropology

Presented with International Film Seminars

 

Thursday, November 30, 4:55-6:10pm
Main Building, 100 Washington Square East, Room 713

'Media, Migrants, Commmunity: Hmong Videos in Transnational Space'
Louisa Schein, Anthropologist, Rutgers University

Co-sponsor: Anthropology Colloquium

Spring 2000 Events

An Art Dealer, An Artist, and Some Collectors (Jean-Luc Leon, 1996, 80 mins)
Fausto Coppi, A History of Italy (Jean-Christophe Rose, 1996, 90 mins)
Thursday, October 14

Panel Discussion - 'The Creative Producer'
A Conversation with Thierry Garrel and Jean-Paul Colleyn, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
The Medellin Notebooks (Catalina Vilar, 1998, 75 mins)
Friday, October 15

What Farocki Taught (Jill Godmilow, 1998, 30 mins),
Inextinguishable Fire (Harun Farocki, 1969, 30 mins)
Thursday, March 25

Far From Poland (Jill Godmilow, 1984, 110 mins)
Roy Cohn / Jack Smith (Jill Godmilow, 1995, 88 mins)
Discussions with Jill Godmilow, Kathleen Hilser, Peggy Phelan (NYU Peformance Studies), Rolf Baumer (Deutsches Haus).
Friday, March 26

Patricio Guzman, Filmmaker
Battle of Chile, Part 1: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (Chile/Cuba 1975/1997)
Tuesday, September 8

Amos Gitai, Filmmaker
A House in Jerusalem (Israel, 1997)
Discussant, Stuart Klawans, The Nation.
Friday, October 23

Su Friedrich, Filmmaker
Hide and Seek (US 1996)
Friday, December 4

Relocating "Home": New Documentary from Taiwan
Featuring Filmmakers Hu Tai-Li, Wu Yii-Feng, Hsiu-ching and guest curator Yi Ling Mao
Monday, November 9

Haitian Cinema: The International Journey of Raoul Peck
Featuring Raoul Peck and discussant Ed Guerrero, Cinema Studies, NYU
Wednesday, November 11

From Sand to Celluloid: Australian Indigenous Media
Featuring Rachel Perkins (Indigenous Programming Unit, ABC), David Batty (filmmaker) and Keith Salvat (Founder/Director, Aboriginal Nations).
Friday, November 13

What's A Film Festival For?
Discussion with Wanda Bershen (Intern'l Film Festival, Jewish Museum), Maheen Bonetti (African Film Festival), Rob Nixon (Comparative Lit., Columbia) and Roger Hallas (Cinema Studies, NYU).
Friday, November 13

Mayfair Yang (Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara)
'Through Chinese Women's Eyes: Transitions from Maoist State Feminism to New Constructions of Gender'
Friday, February 6

Stephanie Donald (Media Communication and Culture, Murdoch University)
'Children as Political Messengers: Posters and Films in China, 1960s-1980s'
Monday, March 30

Harriet Evans (History, University of Westminster)
'The Iconography of Posters in the Cultural Revolution'
Monday, March 30

Body Politics: Negotiating Disability
Remarks: Annette Weiner, Dean, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science
Panelists: Lowell Handler, Laurel Chiten, Shane Fistel ('Twist and Shout'), Deborah Hoffman ('Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter').
Discussants: Peggy Phelan (NYU TSOA Department of Performance Studies), Rayna Rapp (The New School, Department of Anthropology).
Moderator: Faye Ginsburg (NYU Department of Anthropology, Program in Culture and Media)
Thursday, October 19

The Social Body: Film Collectives and Alternative Media

Session 1
Panelists: Peter Roberts, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, (Amber Films, Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.), Herb Smith, Dee Davis (Appalshop, Whitesburg Ky).
Discussants: George Stoney (NYU TSOA Department of Film and Television), Toby Miller (NYU TSOA Department of Cinema Studies).
Moderator: Barbara Abrash (NYU Center for Media, Culture and History)
Friday, October 20.

Session 2
Panelists: Sankofa Film and Video Collective (London, U.K.), Perle Mohl (Ateliers Varan, Paris), Guillermo Monteforte (Centro Nacional Indigenista de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico).
Discussants: Steve Gregory (Africana Studies), Isaac Julien (Fellow, Center for Media, Culture and History).
Moderator: Manthia Diawara (NYU Africana Studies Program)
Friday, October 20

The Politics of Representing the Family
Kim Longinotto (The Good Wife of Tokyo), Jean Lydell, Joanna Head (Our Way of Loving), Alan & Susan Raymond (An American Family), Mikael Wistrom (The Other Shore)
Discussants: Annette Weiner (Dean of the Graduate School, NYU), Manthia Diawara (Director, Africana Studies, NYU). Moderator: Barry Dornfeld (Department of Anthropology, NYU)
Thursday October 13

Indigenous Women Producers:
The Politics of Representing Communities
Aesthetics and Politics, Issues of Identity
Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki, Kanehsatake), Sandy Osawa (Makah, Lighting the Seventh Fire), Rachel Perkins (Freedom Ride).
Discussants: Beverly Singer (Santa Clara Pueblo, He Wo Un Poh), Harriett Skye (Standing Rock Sioux, The Right to Be). Moderator: Elizabeth Weatherford (National Museum of the American Indian)
Friday October 14