“Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes lecture” by James Doucet-Battle (Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz)
MARCH 5 | 4PM | “VISION PORTRAITS” SCREENING + DISCUSSION w/ DIRECTOR RODNEY EVANS
VISION PORTRAITS (78 mins, 2019, Director: Rodney Evans). A screening and discussion with filmmaker Rodney Evans and performance artist/dancer Kayla Hamilton.
FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 19 | 4PM
CONSCIENCE POINT reveals the deep clash of values between the Shinnecock Indian Nation and their elite Hamptons neighbors, who have made sacred land their playground. Post-screening discussion with the film’s director and producers, and film protagonist and activist, Rebecca “Becky” Hill-Genia.
JANUARY 29 | 5PM | “THE 8TH” SCREENING + DISCUSSION
THE 8TH (94 mins, 2020) traces Ireland’s campaign to remove the 8th Amendment, a constitutional ban on abortion enacted in 1983. Post-screening discussion: director Aideen Kane, activist Ailbhe Smyth, and Melissa Murray (NYU Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network). Moderated by Anna McCarthy (Chair, NYU Cinema Studies)
DECEMBER 4 | THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN w/ Director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Award-winning feature exploring domestic abuse through the chance encounter of two First Nations women from different worlds. Discussion with clips by filmmaker//writer/actor ELLE-MÁIJÁ TAILFEATHERS with ANDREW OKPEAHA MACLEAN (NYU FILM & TV). Moderated by ELIZABETH ELLIS (NYU History).
NOVEMBER 5 | L.A. REBELLION SHORTS
Selection of short films from the L.A. Rebellion film movement (1967-1989), followed by a discussion by JOSSLYN LUCKETT (Cinema Studies) and MICHELE PRETTYMAN (Fordham), scholar of African American cinema, visual and popular culture. Moderator: JON-SESRIE GOFF (The Flaherty).
OCTOBER 9 | TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’ (80 mins, 2017, Dir: Sam Pollard)
Screening of Two Trains Runnin’, about the search for two forgotten blues singers set in Mississippi during the height of the civil rights movement. Post-screening discussiion with director SAM POLLARD (NYU FILM & TV), producer BEN HEDIN, and anthropologist MAUREEN MAHON (NYU Music Department).
September 11 | ANIMATING THE TORTURE LETTERS: The Scars of Being Policed While Black
Screening and discussion of The Torture Letters (12:50 mins, New York Times, Op-Docs) with Director LAURENCE RALPH (Princeton University; Director, Center on Transnational Policing), author of The Torture Letters: Reckoning With Police Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2020). In conversation with Joan Morgan (Program Director, NYU Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture) and David Dent (Journalism, Social & Cultural Analysis).
In Solidarity, Black Lives Matter
In Solidarity, Black Lives Matter Statement
(EVENT CANCELLED) HUMANITARIANISM UNDER ERASURE: Cuba and the Politics of Global Health by SEAN BROTHERTON (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
(Event Cancelled) HUMANITARIANISM UNDER ERASURE: Cuba and the Politics of Global Health by SEAN BROTHERTON (Anthropology, University of Chicago)