“ANOTHER SKIN: Belonging and Climate Adaptation in Guyana” lecture by Sarah E. Vaughn (Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
OCTOBER 1 | 5 PM | BLACK ART: In The Absence Of Light
Screening: “BLACK ART: In The Absence Of Light” (2021, 85 MINS, DIR: SAM POLLARD). Post-screening discussion: Director SAM POLLARD (NYU, Film & TV) and artist, author, and curator DEBORAH WILLIS (NYU Dept. of Photography & Imaging and Center for Black Visual Culture).
SEPTEMBER 24 | 4–6 PM | KIN THEORY: New Work in Indigenous Media
Kin Theory, a project of Nia Tero, serves and connects a growing, global community of Indigenous storytellers. A screening of intersectional shorts by Nia Tero’s Indigenous fellows, IVY MACDONALD (she/her; Blackfeet), RAVEN TWO FEATHERS (he/they); Two-Spirit; Cherokee, Seneca, Cayuga, and Comanche), and ALEX SALLEE (she/her; Iñupiaq and Mexican) will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. Moderator: TRACY RECTOR (Black, Choctaw, Jewish), Managing Director of Storytelling, Nia Tero.
SEPTEMBER 23 | 5 PM | Queer Intimacy and Violence in a Mexican Border City Prostitution Zone
“Queer Intimacy and Violence in a Mexican Border City Prostitution Zone” lecture by Sarah Luna (Anthropology, Tufts University)
NOVEMBER 11| 5 PM | MULTISPECIES MOURNING: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
“MULTISPECIES MOURNING: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier” lecture by Sophie Chao (Anthropology, University of Sydney)
APRIL 22 | 5PM | ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM BY ADEOLA ONI-ORISAN
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).
MARCH 25 | 4PM | Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists (2020, University of Illinois Press) reading by author Wazhmah Osman (Temple, Communications)