DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM BY ADEOLA ONI-ORISAN (University of California, San Francisco)
APRIL 16 | 4PM | COLLECTIVELY: NEW NEGRESS FILM SOCIETY
A screening of shorts by filmmakers from the New Negress Film Society, “a collective of Black women and non-binary filmmakers who create community, spaces, and films that reimagine cultural productions that have traditionally exploited our communities”. Post-screening discussion with NNFS directors.
APRIL 8 | 5PM | FOOD, TASTE, AND THE BODY: INGESTION AND SUBJECTIVITY IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA
THURSDAY | APRIL 8 | 5PM NYU DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM FOOD, TASTE, AND THE BODY: INGESTION AND SUBJECTIVITY IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA Lecture by Hanna Garth (University of California, San Diego) Co-sponsors: Center for Latin American & Caribbean…
APRIL 1 | 4PM | “CODED BIAS” SCREENING + DISCUSSION
Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. Post-screening discussion with director Shalini Kantayya, Meredith Broussard (NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute) and Marcel Rosa-Salas (University of Illinois, Chicago).