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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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:
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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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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FRIDAY | OCTOBER 18 | 7 PM | TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 721 BROADWAY, ROOM 006
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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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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FRIDAY | NOVEMBER 7 | 6 PM | ARTHUR L. CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE, 20 COOPER SQUARE
AFTER SHERMAN (2023, 88 mins, Dir: Jon-Sesrie Goff)
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, Uncivil & Empire 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.