All posts by Samuel Rolfe

Public Programs Internship Opportunity at the American Museum of Natural History

AMNH_logo_--_blue_rectangle

There is an upcoming internship opportunity at the American Museum of Natural History.

From the Museum: “Interns are critical to our operations and we are currently seeking motivated and creative individuals to work with us. This internship enables interns to learn about public programs and film festival production, museum operations, and outreach strategies. We require our interns to work at least 2 whole days per week (10:00-5:00 pm, M-F) plus assist with 4 evening and/or weekend programs per month. Although this is an unpaid internship, many of our past interns have received payment or credit through work-study or academic credit programs offered by their universities.”

For complete information about the internship, please download the attached promotional flier here.

NYU Journal of Human Rights: Call for Papers

Undergraduates!

The NYU Journal of Human Rights aims to inform and engage the NYU community with human rights issues and legislation around the world. The Journal is currently accepting academic, opinion, and artistic pieces for its upcoming fall publication. Submissions may range from honors theses and independent studies to photography and poems, so long as they closely relate to human rights.

The deadline to submit is Friday, November 13th. The executive board has final edit, and publication is not guaran

teed. For any questions, please contact rak407@nyu.edu. We look forward to reviewing your pieces.

Inline image 2

Secrets to Success

The College of Arts and Science would like to invite you to an upcoming program – Faculty Reveal the Secrets to Success – on Wednesday, November 4th, from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.in Silverstein Lounge and Jurow Lecture Hall (1st floor of Silver Center).

The program will feature CAS faculty sharing tips for student success, while also providing insight into their own educational journey as first-generation college students or as advocates for first-generation students. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear valuable advice and ask questions that will inform your educational journey within CAS.

The event will begin at 5:00 p.m. with snacks and refreshments in Silverstein Lounge. The faculty panel presentation will follow in Jurow Lecture Hall.

We look forward to seeing you at this special event on November 4. You will leave feeling inspired and ready to handle all of your midterm exams and course assignments!

The program is open to all NYU students, so bring a friend and your questions for faculty members!

The event is sponsored by the Proud to Be First program and College of Arts and Science.  To learn more visit the Proud to Be First website .
Inline image 1

NYU C&M Community Involved in Upcoming SVA Film Festival!

2015-SVAMFF-Call-Fo1387770

Congrats to the members of the NYU C&M community involved in the upcoming SVA Film Festival!

Narges Bajoghli (C&M alumna) will screen her C&M doc The Skin That Burns on 11/19.
http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/mediafestival/the-skin-that-burns/

Rachel Lears (C&M alumna) will screen her feature doc The Hand That Feeds on 11/19
http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/mediafestival/the-hands-that-feed/

Fred Myers will screen Remembering Yayayi on 11/21!
http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/mediafestival/remembering-yayayi/

Congrats as well to Naomi Schiller (C&M alumna) and Ulla Berg (C&M alumna) who are Jury members and the 2015 Festival Co-Directors!

Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

9780226175577

Congratulations to alumnus Lucas Bessire (University of Oklahoma) on winning the Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize for Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life (University of Chicago press, 2014).  

Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life
In 2004, one of the world’s last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers’ bulldozers.  Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire’s intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against the backdrop of soul-collecting missionaries, humanitarian NGOs, late liberal economic policies, and the highest deforestation rate in the world.

Graduate Student Videos to Screen at 2015 Margaret Mead Film Festival!

ForMeadAnnounce

Four of the films that were completed in the NYU Culture & Media Video Production class in the spring will screen at the 2015 Margaret Mead Film Festival next month! Congratulations to all!

The Ladies by Tyler Zoanni
Friday, October 23, 2015 at 4pm
Ukrainian women in the East Village have gathered regularly for 50 years—to make dumplings!
(Screens with Aldona Watts’ Land of Songs)

 

One Man’s Trash by Kelly Adams

Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 11 am
A veteran sanitation worker curates a museum of discarded objects in an East Harlem garage.
(Screens as a part of the Emerging Visual Anthropologists Showcase)
http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/films/one-man-s-trash
Juanita by Ximena Amescua Cuenca
Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 11:30 am
A fascinating window into the life of a Mayan traditional doctor, midwife, nurse, and activist.
(Screens with Iiris Härmä’s Leaving Africa: A Story About Friendship and Empowerment)
http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/films/juanita

What Remains by Lee Douglas

Sunday, October 25, 2015 at at 4:30pm

Spanish anthropologists investigate the mass graves of Franco’s legacy: 118,000 disappeared.
(Screens with Marcela Zamora’s The Room of Bones)

http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/films/what-remains