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)
MARCH 18 | 5PM | SWEETNESS IN THE BLOOD: RACE , RISK, and TYPE 2 DIABETES
“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)