Arctic view

DECEMBER 5 | NIGHTFALL ON GAIA (92 MIN, DIR: JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR)

SCREENING/DISCUSSION THURSDAY / DECEMBER 5 / 5–7 PM ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, KRISER SCREENING ROOM 25 WAVERLY PLACE NIGHTFALL ON GAIA (2015, 92 min, Dir: Juan Francisco Salazar) An experimental documentary and speculative fiction on Antarctica, an extreme frontier for human habitation…
LGBT factory protests

NOVEMBER 28 | 6PM | RAINBOW POPCORN (2013, 63 MIN, DIR. SUSAN CHEN)

SCREENING/DISCUSSION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT SCREENING SERIES WEDNESDAY / NOVEMBER 28 / 6–8 PM CINEMA STUDIES, MICHELSON THEATER 721 BROADWAY, 6TH FLOOR RAINBOW POPCORN  (2013, 63 min, Dir: Susan Chen) In 2004, Taiwan International Workers…
Mashpee Nine poster image

NOVEMBER 15 | 5:30PM | MASHPEE NINE (DIR: PAULA PETERS)

THURSDAY / NOVEMBER 15 / 5:30-7:30 PM Kriser Screening Room Dept. of Anthropology 25 Waverly Place Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On is a story of injustice, outrage, activism, and vindication that emboldened cultural pride and integrity for the Wampanoag in Mashpee, Massachusetts…
Still image of two people looking over water

NOVEMBER 14 | 6PM | THE EARTH TREMBLES/LA TERRA TREMA (1948, DIR: LUCHINO VISCONTI)

SCREENING/DISCUSSION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT SCREENING SERIES WEDNESDAY / NOVEMBER 14 / 6–8:30 PM CINEMA STUDIES, MICHELSON THEATER 721 BROADWAY, 6TH FLOOR THE EARTH TREMBLES (LA TERRA TREMA) (160 min, 1948, Dir: Luchino Visconti)…
Sounding Islam book cover

NOVEMBER 12 | 5PM | SOUNDING ISLAM: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World

BOOK EVENT MONDAY / NOVEMBER 12 / 5–7 PM HAGOP KEVORKIAN CENTER FOR NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 50 WASHINGTON SQUARE SOUTH SOUNDING ISLAM: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World (2018, University of California Press) Reading and Discussion…
Book cover

OCTOBER 30 | 6–8 PM | “THE APPARITIONISTS” BOOK EVENT WITH PETER MANSEAU

CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA BOOK EVENT TUESDAY / OCTOBER 30 / 6–8 PM NYU BOOKSTORE 726 BROADWAY THE APPARITIONISTS: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost PETER MANSEAU (Lily Endowment Curator of American Religious…
Portrait of Laura Ogden

OCTOBER 25 | 6–8 PM | “LOSS AND WONDER IN THE FUEGIAN ARCHIPELAGO” Lecture by Laura Odgen

COLLOQUIA/LECTURE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 14TH ANNUAL DOROTHY NELKIN LECTURE THURSDAY / OCTOBER 25 / 6–8 PM Jurow Lecture Hall & Silverstein Lounge, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East LOSS AND WONDER IN THE FUEGIAN ARCHIPELAGO: Understanding…
Eva Stefani portrait

OCTOBER 24 | 6: 30 PM | EXPERIMENTAL INTIMACIES: The Films of Eva Stefani

SCREENING/DISCUSSION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT SCREENING SERIES WEDNESDAY / OCTOBER 24 / 6:30 PM  CINEMA STUDIES, MICHELSON THEATER 721 BROADWAY, 6TH FLOOR EXPERIMENTAL INTIMACIES: The Films of Eva Stefani Screening of short films followed…
Archival photo nurse with patients

OCTOBER 3 | 6 PM | “SPIRITUAL MADNESS” Lecture by Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton)

COLLOQUIA/LECTURE THE LERNER WORKSHOP IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NYU RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM WEDNESDAY / OCTOBER 3 / 6 PM JUROW LECTURE HALL, ROOM 101 100 WASHINGTON SQUARE EAST SPIRITUAL MADNESS: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions…