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MEMORY, MEDIA AND CULTURAL CREATIVITY
FALL 2009

CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA

SOME EVENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION:
ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

NYU’s Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
September 1st- December 5th, 2009

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery.
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION
ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Saturday/ September 12th/ 2-5 PM
The National Museum of the American Indian
The George Gustav Heye Center/ Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
One Bowling Green, New York, NY

PUBLIC SCREENING/DISCUSSION
NEW INDIGENOUS CINEMA FROM AUSTRALIA
BECK COLE (Luritja/ Warramunga)

Filmmaker Beck Cole will premiere and discuss her recent documentaries addressing the Indigenous cultural rights and creativity.

A Fair Go for a Dark Race (2008, 55 min.)
On Australia’s Indigenous civil rights movement.

Excerpts from:
Making Samson and Delilah: The Documentary (2009, 55 min.)
Behind the scenes of the Cannes Film Festival award winning feature film.

Lore of Love (2005, 25 min)
A young aboriginal woman is taught tradition by her feisty grandmothers.

In Collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian.
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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION
ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Thursday/ September 17/ 6:30- 8:30PM
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

Fred Myers, Silver Professor and Chair of Anthropology, NYU

Showing Too Much, Showing Too Little: The Predicament of Aboriginal Painting in Central Australia

Myers explores how aboriginal painters negotiate cultural restrictions in creating public work.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery.
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PANEL DISCUSSION

Friday/ September 25th/ 12:30-4:00PM
The Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South at Sullivan Street

"Middle Eastern Art" in Translation: A Conversation with Critics, Artists, and Curators

The groundbreaking exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art, Tarjama/Translation, maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and its diasporas as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking. Rather than highlighting the region as its main thematic or providing a panoramic, and thus fleeting, exposure to “Middle Eastern art,” Tarjama/Translation focuses on the common yet complex theme of cultural, artistic and critical translation. The artists featured in the exhibit scrutinize culture, society, belief, criteria, science, and everyday phenomena as material for translation: they read between the lines, probe the obvious, and burrow through the camouflage of appearances to contemplate cultural specificity and universal relevance. On the occasion of the exhibit's closing, a special panel will examine the challenges and interventions of the exhibit and its implications for the contemporary art world. 

For more information, please see www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/neareast.

Hosted by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU, ArteEast, and the Center for Religion and Media at NYU.
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SCREENING/DISCUSSION
Friday/ September 25th/ 6-8:00PM
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

Reel Bad Arabs
Dr. Jack Shaheen discusses his book Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies People and screens his film.

In conversation with Jack Tchen.

Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute and The Center for Religion and Media.
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Friday/ October 2nd/ 4-6:00PM
The Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South at Sullivan Street

Project Kashmir (2008, 89 minutes)
Director/Producers: Senain Kheshgi & Geeta V. Patel

Two American friends from opposite sides of the divide investigate the war in Kashmir and find their friendship tested over deeply rooted political, cultural and religious biases they never had to face in the U.S.

Post-screening discussion with filmmakers.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Dialogues: Islamic World- U.S.- The West and the Hagop Kevorkian Center.

Click here for the event flyer.
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Tuesday/ October 6/ 6:30-9:00PM
Kimmel Center, Room 802, 60 Washington Square South

Flow (84 min, 2008)
Director: Irena Salina

Flow is an awarding winning documentary about the World Water Crisis. 

Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Click here for the event flyer.

Presented by The McGee School.
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Friday/ October 9th/ 7:30-9:00PM
251 Mercer Street, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109

Memefactory

This performance is a fast paced tour of how memes-- units of cultural meaning-- travel through the internet.

In collaboration with Free Culture NYC.
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Wednesday/ October 14/ 6:30-8:30PM
Cantor Film Center, Theater 101
36 East 8th Street

Citizen Tanouye (58 minutes, 2005)
Co-directors: Robert Horsting and Craig Yahata
CITIZEN TANOUYE uniquely brings history to life for eight ethnically diverse Torrance, CA high school students through their research of THS alumnus Tech Sgt Ted Tanouye and the impact the war had on their city, while drawing attention to the civil rights abuses of WWII era America.

Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute.  Co-sponsored by The Japanese American Association and The Center for Media, Culture & History.
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Friday/ October 16/ 4:00-6:00PM
King Juan Carlos Center Screening Room, 53 Washington Square South

Our Disappeared (99 min., 2008)
Directed by Juan Mandelbaum

A filmmaker returns to Argentina to trace the fate of friends and family who were kidnapped, tortured and “disappeared” by the military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Co-sponsored by The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and The Center for Latin American Studies.
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FILM FESTIVAL
Wednesday-Sunday/ October 21-25th
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

A Cinema Across Borders: The First New York Kurdish Film Festival

For a complete schedule of screenings and events, see www.arteeast.org 

Kurdish cinema speaks strongly to our times because it confronts the pain and promise of crossing borders: not only the borders that separate nations, but the lines that define gender, community, and culture, that demarcate the past and the future, and adjudicate between those with and those without hope. Yet despite being one of the great film cultures of the world, Kurdish cinema still remains largely unknown in the U.S.  The First New York Kurdish Film Festival: A Cinema Across Borders will showcase an exciting range of recent feature films, shorts, and documentaries by male and female directors from across the Kurdish region—including films from Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia—and the Kurdish diaspora. What unites these diverse films is a powerful commitment to innovative storytelling and a concern to rethink imposed borders of whatever kind. The festival will bring a number of Kurdish film directors to the U.S. to connect directly with New York audiences, and will provide a unique educational opportunity for learning about Kurdish history and culture. The festival aims to enrich the diversity and cultural life of the city by opening up new routes for understanding and dialogue between different cultures and visions of the world.

Presented by the Kevorkian Center and ArteEast. Co-sponsored by the Center for Religion and Media.
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LECTURE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION
ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Thursday/ October 22/ 6:00 pm
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

All these dots are making me dizzy: An Indigenous Perspective on the Australian Western Desert Dot Painting Movement

Franchesca Cubillo (Larrakia), Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia, offers an Indigenous perspective on the acrylic painting movement.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery.
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SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Wednesday/ November 4th/ 6:30-8:30PM
Cantor Film Center, Theater 101
36 East 8th Street

Objects and Memory  (62 minutes, 2008)
Directors: Jonathan Fein & Brian Danitz

Filmmaker Jon Fein in conversation with Jack Tchen talking about objects, archives, authenticity, memorialization and collecting living histories. 

Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute.  Co-sponsored by The Center for Media, Culture & History.
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LECTURE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION
ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Thursday/ November 5/ 6:00- 7:30PM
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

Roger Benjamin (Research Professor in Art History and Actus Foundation Lecturer in Aboriginal Art, University of Sydney)

Landscapes of Longing: Place and Image in the Early Papunya Boards

A guest curator of the exhibition,Benjaminexplores how western art history grasps the role of memory, song, and design in these works.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery.
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FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday- Sunday/ November 12-15th
The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street

The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

Information: www.amnh.org/programs/mead/


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PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
All events are co-sponsored by Cinema Studies (TSOA), Anthropology and Religious Studies and are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-come basis. Persons with a disability are requested to call 212-998-7608 for assistance.

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background images: Processional Projections Melissa Shiff (2003), Another Road Home Danae Elon (2004), Waiting for Miracles Ulla Dalum Berg (2003), Brian Larkin (1995).