Category: Spring 2016

GREEN SCREENS Film Festival NY Premiere of ATLANTIC (80 min.). Post-screening discussion with Atlantic Director Risteard Ó Domhnaill with Jennifer Jacquet (Environmental Studies, NYU). Moderator: Niall McKay (Irish Screen America)

Screenings and discussions on environmental crises facing communities worldwide featuring the documentaries SHERPA, ATLANTIC, ANGRY INUK, and VICE’s SACRED WATER with presenting filmmakers

GREEN SCREENS film festival opening night screening of SHERPA (90 min.). Post-screening discussion with Sherpa director Jennifer Peedom and Pasang Yangjee Sherpa (Post-Doctoral Fellow for Sacred Landscapes & Sustainable Futures, The New School)

Experimental film by indigenous artists BRIAN JUNGEN (DaneZaa) and DUANE LINKLATER (Omaskêko Cree) that takes self-determination over First Nations lands as its central concern

“New World Orders: Coloniality, Intimacy, and Disability” Symposium

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” lecture by Andre Brasil (Visiting scholar, NYU; Department of Communication, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

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

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

Thursday, April 21, 5pm: “Women of Color and the Movement for Reproductive Justice” lecture by Patricia Zavella