SPRING 2015 - Religious Studies

the center for religion and media
www.crmnyu.org
The Center for Religion and Media seeks to develop interdisciplinary, cross-cultural knowledge of how religious ideas and
practices are shaped and spread through a variety of media.
The Center, inaugurated through The Pew Charitable Trusts,
is a collaborative project of the Religious Studies Program and
the Center for Media, Culture and History, providing a space for
scholarly endeavor, a stage for public educational events, and
an electronic interface with media specialists and the public
through its innovative web journal, The Revealer: A Daily Review
of Religion and Media, www.therevealer.org
Founded in 2003 with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the
Center for Religion and Media is one of ten Pew Centers of Excellence.
Generous support for our Digital Religion initiative (2011-13) comes
from The Luce Foundation's Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion &
International Affairs.
the center for media,
culture and history
www.cmchnyu.org
advisory board
Barbara Abrash, New York University
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Arjun Appadurai, New York University
Orlando Bagwell, Documentary filmmaker
Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College of Columbia University
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder
Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College of Columbia University
Purnima Mankekar, UCLA
Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Daniel Miller, University College, London
Michael Renov, University of Southern California
Patricia Spyer, Leiden University, Netherlands
Jeremy Stolow, Concordia University, Montreal
Diane Winston, University of Southern California
staff
Faye Ginsburg, Co-Director
Angela Zito, Co-Director
Pegi Vail, Associate Director
Kali Handelman, Program Coordinator
The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and Media
Kali Handelman, Editor
Ann Neumann, Contributing Editor
Jeff Sharlet, Contributing Editor
The Center for Media, Culture and History, founded
in 1993 with support from the Rockefeller and Ford
Foundations, addresses issues of representation, social
change and identity construction embedded in the
development of film, television, video, and new media
worldwide. It focuses on the role these media play
in shaping our perceptions of history and culture; in
forging individual, collective, national and transnational
identities; and in mediating the direction and character
of social change.
photos
A: Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974, Collection of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
B: Photo by David Valentine
C: Artwork by Jason DaSilva
D: From the film, Shimásáni (2009, Dir: Larry Blackhorse Lowe)
new york university
The Center for Religion and Media
726 Broadway, Suite 554
New York, New York
10003
faculty of arts and science | tisch school of the arts | new york university
the center for religion and media
the center for media,
culture and history
spring 2015
Media, Religion,
and Social
Transformation
B
faculty of arts and science | tisch school of the arts | new york university
spring 2015
the center for media,
culture and history
the center for religion and media
C
Media, Religion, and
Social Transformation
A
faculty of arts and science | tisch school of the arts | new york university
spring 2015
the center for media,
culture and history
thethe
center
forfor
religion
andand
media
center
religion
media
Media, Religion, and
Social Transformation
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
D
COLLOQUIA / LECTURE
wednesDAY / JANUARY 28 / 6:30–8:30PM
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Cinema Studies, Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway,
6th Floor
THURSDAY / MARCH 12 / 5–6:30PM
THE FOXY MERKINS
KIMBALL LOUNGE, 1ST FLOOR, 246 GREENE STREET
(2013, 81 min., Dir. Madeleine Olnek)
Margaret is a down-on-her-luck lesbian hooker in training.
She meets Jo, a beautiful, self-assured grifter from a
wealthy family and an expert on picking up women, even
as she considers herself a card-carrying heterosexual.
Discussion: Director Madeleine Olnek, Producer
Laura Terruso. Moderator: ANN PELLEGRINI
The Situation of the Gravity:
Ontologies of Terrestrialism and
Social Theory Off-Planet
DAVID VALENTINE (Anthropology, University of Minnesota)
film festival / event
Co-sponsor: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
FRIDAY / MARCH 13 / 2–4PM
NYU Medical Center, 550 1st Avenue at 33rd Street,
Alumni Hall B
READING/DISCUSSION
Presented with ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival, March
12-18, a showcase of award-winning films by and about people
with disabilities. For more information, please visit:
www.reelabilities.org.
WEDNESDAY / FEBRUARY 11 / 6:30–8:30PM
El Café, El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Avenue
CONTEMPORARY LATINA/O MEDIA:
Production, Circulation, Politics
RIDING MY WAY BACK
(2014, NYU Press)
Book discussion and reception with co-editors
ARLENE DAVILA (New York University) and YEIDY
RIVERO (University of Michigan) with contributing authors
JUAN GONZALEZ (Democracy Now), JILLIAN BAEZ
(Staten Island University), D. INES CASILLAS (University
of California, Santa Barbara).
(2014, 29 min., Dirs: Robin Fryday, Peter Rosenbaum). A chronicle
of a soldier's journey back from the brink of suicide.
ON BEAUTY
(2014, 30 min., Dir: Joanna Rudnick). Former fashion
photographer Rick Guidotti re-focused his lens to change the way
we see and experience beauty. Discussion follows screenings.
CO-SPONSORS: NYU LATINO STUDIES; ANTHROPOLOGY; SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL ANALYSIS; HUMANITIES COUNCIL
CO-SPONSOR: NYU COUNCIL FOR THE STUDY OF DISABILITY; BELLEVUE
PSYCHIATRY DEPARTMENT'S VIDEO SELF-DOCUMENTARY GROUP
COLLOQUIA / LECTURE
ARTIST TALK
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
THURSDAY / FEBRUARY 19 / 6–8PM
Media, Culture, and Communication
239 Greene Street, 8th Floor
THURSDAY / MARCH 26 / 5–6:30PM
KIMBALL LOUNGE, 1ST FLOOR, 246 GREENE STREET
MY POINT OF VIEW:
Disability and Filmmaking
INCORPORATIONS: Capitalism and Collectivity
MATTHEW HULL (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Artist/filmmaker JASON DASILVA discusses the
making of his acclaimed feature documentary, When I
Walk, about his determination to survive with multiple
sclerosis, and his AXS Map project, a crowd-sourced
tool for mapping wheelchair access.
screening / DISCUSSIONs
THURSDAY / MARCH 26 / 6–8PM
Co-sponsors: DEPARTMENT OF Media, Culture, and
Communication; NYU Council for the Study of Disability
SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN,
1 BOWLING GREEN
FRIDAY / MARCH 27 / 9AM–5PM
CINEMA STUDIES, MICHELSON THEATER, 721 BROADWAY, 6TH FLOOR
FILM SERIES: MEGALOPOLIS
SATURDAY / MARCH 28
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern
Studies Screening Room, 50 Washington
Square South
QUICHWA FILM SHOWCASE:
Indigenous Media from the Andes and Beyond
QUEENS MUSEUM, NYC BUILDING, FLUSHING MEADOWS,
CORONA PARK
Three days of screenings/discussions on Indigenous filmmaking in
Quichwa languages, including work by Ecuador’s groundbreaking
filmmaker Alberto Muenala.
Full schedule/updates: cmchnyu.org
MONDAY / FEBRUARY 9 / 6–8PM
TEHRAN HAS NO MORE
POMEGRANATES!
(2006, 68 min., Dir: Massoud Bakhshi).
Chronicles Tehran’s transformation from a small
village to a huge, modern, and polluted metropolis.
CO-SPONSORS: CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES; HISTORY
DEPARTMENT; HEMISPHERIC INSTITUTE OF PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS
COLLOQUIA / LECTURE
FRIDAY / FEBRUARY 20 / 4–6PM
CAIRO DRIVE
(2013, 79 min., Dir: Sherief ElKatsha)
Cairo's chaotic traffic is a dance of flow and resistance
and miraculous timing. Discussion: filmmaker
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
THURSDAY / APRIL 2 / 6–7:30PM
Sherief ElKatsha
HEMMERDINGER HALL, SILVER CENTER
100 WASHINGTON SQUARE EAST
FRIDAY / FEBRUARY 27 / 4–6PM
THE MUSHROOM AT THE
END OF THE WORLD
ECUMENOPOLIS: City Without Limits
(2012, 93 min, Dir: Imre Azem)
Follows Istanbul on a neo-liberal course to
destruction, through a migrant family's struggle for
housing rights in contemporary neo-liberal Istanbul.
ANNA L TSING (Anthropology, University of
California, Santa Cruz)
film showcase
THURSDAY / APRIL 9 / 6PM
SATURDAY / APRIL 11 / 1-5PM & 6:30-9PM
culture/media labs
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American
Indian, Auditorium, 1 Bowling Green
THURSDAY / FEBRUARY 26 / 5–7PM
Department of Anthropology, Kriser Screening Room
25 Waverly Place, Ground Floor
DINÉ SPOTLIGHT:
A Showcase of Navajo Film
INNOVATIONS IN MEDIA
ANTHROPOLOGY: Community
Media/Archives in Latin America
A showcase celebrating the creative vision of Navajo
filmmakers. Featuring screenings and discussions
with acclaimed filmmakers Sydney Freeland,
Larry Blackhorse Lowe, Velma Kee Craig
ERICA WORTHAM, NYU Graduate Program in Culture &
and Nanobah Becker.
Media alumna discusses her work creating the first Latin
American Indigenous media archive and her recent book,
Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the
State (2013, Duke University Press)
Full schedule: nmai.si.edu/calendar
panel / discussion
MONDAY / MARCH 2 / 6–8PM
FRIDAY / APRIL 10 / 3:30–6:30PM
NYU ARTHUR L. CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
20 COOPER SQUARE, 7TH FLOOR COMMONS
JUROW LECTURE HALL, Silver Center
100 Washington SqUARE East
WHOSE STORY IS IT? Perspectives
in /on Documentary Storytelling
Award winning filmmakers, alumni of NYU's diverse
documentary initiatives in the Program in Culture &
Media and Journalism (GSAS); Film & TV and Open Arts
(Tisch School of the Arts) discuss how these distinctive
documentary approaches shape their work.
Co-sponsor: Visual Arts Initiative, NYU Arts Council
SCREENING/DISCUSSION
THURSDAY / MARCH 5 / 6–8PM
MAKING TIME: Discipline and
Religion in America's Prisons
A public conversation about making, rather than doing, time
and the critical and often misunderstood role religion plays
in geographies of confinement and discipline, as well as in
the everyday practices of incarcerated people. Presenters:
Hakim 'Ali (Reconstruction, Inc.), Tanya Erzen
(University of Puget Sound), Robin McGinty (CUNY),
and Angela Zito (NYU).Moderator: Laura McTighe
(Columbia University). CO-SPONSORS: DEAN'S OFFICE, NYU COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE;
THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM
KIMMEL CENTER FOR UNIVERSITY LIFE, 60 WASHINGTON
SQUARE SOUTH, ROOM 802-SHORIN PERFORMANCE STUDIO
COLLOQUIA / LECTURE
MOSQUITA Y MARI
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
(2012, 85min., Dir: Aurora Guerrero)
A coming of age story focusing on a tender friendship
between two young Chicanas. Discussion: filmmaker
AURORA GUERRERO, anthropologist/filmmaker
THURSDAY / APRIL 16 / 5–6:30PM
KIMBALL LOUNGE, 1ST FLOOR, 246 GREENE STREET
RECALCULATING WALL STREET
RATIONALITIES: A Rethinking of
Financial Risk and "Risk Culture"
EMILY COHEN
CO-SPONSORS: NYU ASIA/PACIFIC/AMERICAN STUDIES;
ANTHROPOLOGY; LATINO STUDIES; CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF
GENDER AND SEXUALITY; LGBTQ STUDENT CENTER
KAREN HO (Anthropology, University of Minnesota)
the center for religion and media
the center for media, culture and history
crmnyu.org
cmchnyu.org
programs subject to change.
212.998.3759
All events are co-sponsored by The Anthropology
Department and the Department of Cinema Studies.
All events are free and open to the public, but seating is
limited. Seating is first-come, first-served.
Persons with a disability are requested to call the Center
for Media, Culture and History in advance at 212.998.3759.