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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_________________
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
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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.
Archive of past events at the Center for Media, Culture and History
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