The Revealer‘s publisher, The Center for Religion and Media at New York University, will host a series of events this spring that you just shouldn’t miss.
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Friday, February 4, 3:30 – 6 pm, 19 University Place, Room 102
The Last American Freak Show (2008, 85 min, UK)
Directed by Richard Butchins
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Lawrence Carter-Long, Disabilities Network. Part of the 3rd Annual Reelabilities New York Disabilities Film Festival.
For more information and a schedule of events, see http://www.reelabilities.org/
Presented with Reelabilities and the NYU Council for the Study of Disability
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COLLOQUIA / LECTURE SERIES
In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology
Thursday, February 17, 5 – 6:30 pm, 19 University Place, Room 102
Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University
Development Hubris: Postcolonial Missionaries, Ecotourists, and Planetary Redemption
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COLLOQUIA / LECTURE SERIES
In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology
Thursday, February 24, 5 – 6:30 pm, 19 University Place, Room 102
Zeynep Gürsel, University of Michigan
Rewiring the Newsroom: The Work of International News Images in the Age of Digital Circulation
Co-sponsored by Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
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CONFERENCE
Saturday, February 26, 9 am – 5 pm, Barnard Hall, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway (at West 117th Street)
Movements: Politics, Performance, and Disability
The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXVI
Advance registration is required. For more information and to register, please visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw, email bcrw@barnard.edu or call 212.854.2067.
Presented by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College
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COLLOQUIA / LECTURE SERIES
In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology
Thursday, March 3, 5 – 6:30 pm, 19 University Place, Room 102
Caitlin Zaloom, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
God’s Money Managers: Finance and Family in Evangelical America
Co-Sponsored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Wednesday, March 9, 6:30 – 8 pm, Department of Cinema Studies, Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
On Hostile Ground (2001, 71 min), Directed by Liz Mermin and Jenny Raskin
Introduction by Faye Ginsburg, Anthropology, NYU. Post-screening discussion with Jenny Raskin, filmmaker, Director of Development, Impact Partners.
What motivates abortion providers to continue their work in the face of violence?
Presented with The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Cinema Studies
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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Wednesday, March 23, 6 – 7:30 pm, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 300
David Morgan, Religion, Duke University
Recovering the Protestant Body
What can images tell us about Protestant embodiment from the Reformation to the present?
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Art History, NYU
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FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday – Sunday, March 31 – April 3, The George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green
15th Annual Native American Film & Video Festival
For more information see http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/Eng/blue/nafvf_11.html
Sponsored by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
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SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Tuesday, April 5, 6 – 7:30 pm, Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, Room 808
Kulana He Mahu: Remembering A Sense of Place (2001, 67 min)
Directed by Connie Florez, Hula Girl Productions
A discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening, moderated by Gayatri Gopinath, Gender & Sexuality Studies, NYU. RSVP online at www.apa.nyu.edu, email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or call 212-992-9653.
Co-sponsored by Na ‘Ōiwi NYC, the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
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SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Wednesday, April 6, 6 – 7:30 pm, King Juan Carlos Screening Room, 53 Washington Square South
TV Serrana: Community Media from Cuba
Presented by Alexandra Halkin, Chiapas Media Project
Televison Serrana is an award-winning community television project that trains campesinos in video production.
Presented with the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
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COLLOQUIA / LECTURE SERIES
In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, Weiner Lecture Series
Thursday, April 7, 6 – 7:30 pm, Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Elizabeth Edwards, University of Arts, London
Marks of Being: Photographs and the Excavation of Encounter
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SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Part of the Demands of Tolerance Series, presented with NYU Abu Dhabi New York
Thursday, April 21, 6:30 – 8 pm, 19 Washington Square North
Not In Our Town
Clips from the Not in Our Town documentaries will be followed by a conversation with NIOT founder Patrice O’Neill and human rights advocate and Central European University President John Shattuck. Moderated by Anthropology’s Faye Ginsburg.
To attend, please RVSP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu For further information visit http://nyuad.nyu.edu/news.events/events.nyc.html
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SCREENING SERIES
Selected Fridays, Spring 2011, 4 – 6 pm, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, 50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street
Chronicles of a Paradise Lost: Filming Absence: Lebanese Cinema 1965-2010
For series schedule, check www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast or call 212.998.8044
Co-presented with the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and Arte East
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LECTURE SERIES
Selected Wednesdays, Spring 2011, 5:30 – 7:30 pm, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
Primary Sources: Coverage in Context: Media and the Middle East
For series schedule, check www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast or call 212.998.8044. For free online viewing of the series, see www.nyuprimarysources.org
Co-presented with the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, the Program in Religious Studies and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, with support from the Social Science Research Council