Fall Events 2024

SEPTEMBER EVENTS:

SCREENING/DISCUSSION

FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 20 | 6-8:30 PM | CANTOR FILM CENTER @ 36 EAST 8TH STREET, ROOM 200

NYU AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESENT

THE WORLD IS FAMILY (96 min, Dir: Anand Patwardhan)

RSVP (required)

Esteemed documentarian Anand Patwardhan’s moving archival portrait of his parents, whose lives intertwined with Gandhi and India’s independence movement. Post-screening discussion: ANAND PATWARDHAN, NILITA VACHANI (NYU Tisch), and AKEEL BILGRAMI (Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia). Moderator: Tejaswini Ganti (NYU Anthropology).

Co-sponsors: Columbia University: South Asia Institute; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Film Program of the School of the Arts. New School: India China Institute. NYU Department of Anthropology. 

Screening is free and open to the public with RSVP. Please RSVP here. Non-NYU attendees may be asked to present a photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees may present their NYU ID.

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BOOK LAUNCH

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 25 | 6 PM | ZOOM

CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA & THE REVEALER PRESENT

BLESSINGS BEYOND THE BINARY: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family (Edited by Nora Rubel and Brett Krutzsch)

 

This event explores the legacy of the series, Transparent, discussing the show’s emphasis on Jewish traditions, its focus on trans and queer characters, and where it connects and diverges from today’s transgender and queer politics with editors NORA RUBEL and BRETT KRUTZSCH.

Co-sponsor: NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

 

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OCTOBER

BOOK ROUNDTABLE

WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 16 | 5-6:30 PM | 25 WAVERLY PLACE, KRISER ROOM

DIGITAL UNSETTLING: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media (2023, NYU Press)

This roundtable discussion engages key arguments from the book, Digital Unsettling with authors SAHANA UDUPA (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and ETHIRAJ GABRIEL DATTATREYAN (NYU) with discussants ARVIND RAJAGOPAL (NYU) and SAREETA AMRUTE (New School).

Co-sponsors: NYU Departments of Anthropology and Media, Culture, and Communication; MERISA – Media Anthropology Research in South Asia;

 

 

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DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIA

THURSDAY | OCTOBER 17 | 12:30 PM | 25 WAVERLY PLACE, RM 706

QUEER COMPANIONS: Saintly Intimacies in Pakistan

Lecture by OMAR KASMANI (Freie Universität, Berlin)

 

 

 

 

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DISCUSSION

THURSDAY | OCTOBER 17 | 6-7:30 PM | 14A WASHINGTON MEWS

CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA & THE REVEALER 

EX-EVANGELICALS AND U.S. POLITICS with NPR’s SARAH McCAMMON

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FILM FESTIVAL

FRIDAY | OCTOBER 18 | 7 PM | TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 721 BROADWAY, ROOM 006

PACIFIC ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL

INKY PINKY PONKY (2023, Dirs: Damon Fepulea’i, Ramon Te Wake)

Inky Pinky Ponky, a coming of age narrative of a young fakaleiti (trans Tongan) enduring complications upon starting a new high school in South Auckland, NZ.

Co-sponsors: NYU A/P/A – Asian Pacific American Institute, Cinema Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Non-NYU attendees may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.

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SCREENING/DISCUSSION

WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 23 | 6 PM | CINEMA STUDIES, 721 BROADWAY, ROOM 674

ERICA TREMBLAY SCREENS AND DISCUSSES HER DIRECTORIAL WORK ON RESERVATION DOGS

Screening of episodes directed by ERICA TREMBLAY (Fancy Dance) from the breakthrough FX series, Reservation Dogs, following the lives of four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma. Post-screening discussion: NYU Cinema Studies Professor JACOB FLOYD (Muscogee/Creek) and ERICA TREMBLAY (Seneca-Cayuga).

Screening is free and open to the public with RSVP. Non-NYU attendees may be asked to present a photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees may present their NYU ID.

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DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIA

THURSDAY | OCTOBER 24 | 5 PM | 25 WAVERLY PLACE, KRISER ROOM

PROXY: A Thousand Windows into American Violence

Lecture by EMILY YATES-DOERR (Oregon State University)

 

 

 

 

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NYU CENTER FOR HUMANITIES BOOK TALK

MONDAY | OCTOBER 28 | 6 PM | 20 COOPER SQUARE, 5th FLOOR

SIX PAINTINGS FROM PAPUNYA: A Conversation (2024, Duke University Press)

Authors FRED MYERS (NYU), anthropologist, and art historian TERRY SMITH in conversation with Metropolitan Museum of Art curator MAIA NUKU (Māori).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NOVEMBER

NYU CENTER FOR HUMANITIES BOOK TALK

MONDAY | NOVEMBER 4 | 6 PM | 20 COOPER SQUARE, 5th FLOOR

DISABILITY WORLDS (2024, Duke University Press)

NYU Authors and anthropologists FAYE GINSBURG and RAYNA RAPP discuss their new book with Director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies, MARA MILLS.

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SCREENING/DISCUSSION

THURSDAY | NOVEMBER 7 | 6 PM | ARTHUR L. CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE, 20 COOPER SQUARE

AFTER SHERMAN (2023, 88 mins, Dir: Jon-Sesrie Goff)

RSVP (required)

Screening of the POV film, After Sherman. In the wake of Southern violence, the documentary chronicles the wisdom passed between generations of African Americans on how to survive materially and spiritually. Post-screening discussion with filmmaker JON SESRIE-GOFF (Ford Foundation JustFilms), moderated by CHENJERAI KUMANYIKA (NYU Journalism, Host of the podcasts, UncivilEmpire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD). 

Reception follows.

Co-sponsors: Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Cinema Studies, Institute for African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture.