SPRING 2008 EVENTS HOSTED BY NYU'S CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA
SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSION
The First Thursdays Film Series
Thursdays: February 7, March 6, and 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.
More information can be found at: http://www.apa.nyu.edu
LECTURE
Lessons from Hell: Karma and Governmentality in Popular Indian Imagery
Thursday, February 28, 6:30–8:00 pm
Room 300, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Chris Pinney (Northwestern Univrsity)
Anthropology Department Colloqium Series.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Impossible Archives
Monday, March 3, 5:30–7:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South
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).
SCREENING / DISCUSSION
The Reunion of All My Babies (George Stoney, 1953/2007; 55 min.)
Friday, March 7, 4:00–6:00 pm
Room 006, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway
55 years ago, the classic documentary All My Babies celebrated the work of legendary midwife Mary Frances Cole. 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 screening discussion with filmmaker George Stoney and special guests.
LECTURE
On the Acoustic Materiality of Modernity in Accra: Union Drivers, Klaxon Honk Horn, and the Chronotope of the Road
Thursday, April 3, 6:00–8:00 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Steve Feld (University of New Mexico)
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.
Annette B. Weiner Memorial Lecture, Anthropology Department Colloquium Series.
ARTIST'S TALK
Silence is Silver by Huda Lutfi (American University of Cairo)
Monday, April 7, 5:00–7:00 pm
Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South
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.
SCREENING / DISCUSSION
Super Girls! (Jian Yi, 2007; 123 min.)
Wednesday, April 10, 6:00–8:00 pm
Kriser Room, 25 Waverly Place
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”.
All events are co-sponsored by Cinema Studies (TSOA), Anthropology and Religious Studies.
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
All events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Seating is first come, first served.
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.
