Reel China@NYU 8th Biennial Film Festival: New documentary work shows us a China rarely seen.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 5 PM
“OPENING THE BLACK BOX: Police Torture and the Craft of Ethnographic Lettering” lecture by Laurence Ralph (Anthropology, Harvard)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16
MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL 40th ANNIVERSARY “RE:FRAME” Special screenings, events, and dialogues at the longest running showcase for cultural storytelling and international documentaries
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 5:30-7:30 PM
CONVULSING BODIES: a conversation on religion & resistance in Foucault, with Mark D. Jordan, Carolyn Dinshaw & Anthony Petro
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 5-6:30 PM
TINA TURNER’S TURN: Gender, Race, Genre, and the Queen of Rock – Lecture by Maureen Mahon (NYU Music Department)
DOCS ON THE EDGE: A Student Documentary Showcase
Thursday, May 12 @ 6:00 pm: “DOCS ON THE EDGE: A Student Documentary Showcase from the 2015-2016 Video Production Seminar” presented by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Cinema Studies, and the Program in Culture and Media at New York University
LOOKING THROUGH THE INVISIBLE: Cinema as a Shamanic Translation
“Looking Through the Invisible: Cinema as a Shamanic Translation” lecture by Andre Brasil (Visiting scholar, NYU; Department of Communication, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Book Launch: Three New Books in Disability/Deaf Studies
Book launch for three new books in Disability/Deaf Studies: VALUING DEAF WORLDS IN URBAN INDIA by Michele Friedner, MADE TO HEAR: COCHLEAR IMPLANTS & RAISING DEAF CHILDREN by Laura Mauldin, and DEAFENING MODERNISM: EMBODIED LANGUAGE and VISUAL POETICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE by Rebecca Sanchez
UNDER THE CLOUDS (2016, 74 min.) w/ Director Marco Antonio Gonçalves
Wednesday, April 27, 6pm: Sneak preview of a documentary by Marco Antonio Gonçalves and Eliska Altmann based on the published diary in 1961 of Carolina Maria de Jesus, a resident of a favela in São Paulo
CURATING BETWEEN HOPE AND DESPAIR: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
April 7, 6pm: “Curating Between Hope and Despair: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews” lecture by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett