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Empathic Thresholds | 2022-2023 Theme

CEE #42: Reckoning & Repair Launch, Third Thursday, and Save the Date for the CEE Carnival!

Spring is springing and many exciting things are afoot! Our events this month also remind us that the process is the product, and we look forward to seeing you there!

WElCOME, Spring FELLOWS!

Imani Uzuri

Imani Uzuri, raised in rural North Carolina, is an award-winning vocalist, composer, experimental librettist, and improviser called “a postmodernist Bessie Smith” by the Village Voice. She composes, performs, and creates interdisciplinary works (for theater, ritual performance, chorus, chamber ensemble, sound-art and film) often dealing with themes of ancestral memory, magical realism, liminality, Black American vernacular culture, spirituality and landscape. Her ritual performance Wild Cotton was cited as one “with subtlety and vision” by the New York Times.KEEP READING...

Wazhmah Osman

Wazhmah Osman is an Afghan-American academic and filmmaker. She is currently an associate professor in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Her research and teaching are rooted in feminist media ethnographies that focus on the political economy of global media industries and the regimes of representation and visual culture they produce. In her book Television and the AfghanCulture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists (University of Illinois Press, Fall 2020), she analyzes the impact of international funding and cross-border media flows on the politics of Afghanistan, the region, and beyond. KEEP READING...

upcoming EVENTS

Works in progress

March 16th noon
For our March Third Thursday event, Rabani Garg, Larissa Johnson and Indivar Jonnalagadda join in conversation about the upcoming Screening Scholarship and Media Festival, open March 31 through April 2!  REGISTER HERE

Jallicia Jolly 

March 30th 4:30pm 
Join us for an interactive experience with Dr. Jallicia Alicia Jolly, who presents a Black transnational ethnography of HIV/AIDS, reproduction, and dancehall in neocolonial Jamaica. MORE INFO

Screening scholarship media festival 

march 31-april2 2023
As we return our embodied selves to institutions, as we encounter the “new normal” that feels frighteningly and tirelessly old, the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA) invites you to the 2023 Screening Scholarship Media Festival, "works in progress". READ MORE

recent EVENTS

MANGROVE SCHOOL

FEB 13-19
Virtual film screening of Sonia Vaz Borges and Filipa Cesar's film "Mangrove School" on February 13th through the 19th. WATCH HERE

third thursday

FEB 16th @ NOON
Please join us for our monthly Third Thursday with Keisha-Khan Perry and Sonia Vaz Borges, who will be discussing Mangrove School, a film directed by Sonia Vaz Borges and Filipa Cesar.  REGISTER HERE

PARTAGE Opening reception 

ATELIER ART GALLERY

Feb 18th 6-9
Save the date for an exhibition of 13 artists curated by the Critical Museum Studies Group. This diverse exhibition features artwork that explores the scars and sutures of the colonial museum. 

The show will open on February 18th at Atelier Art Gallery, 1301 N 31st St. Suite 2, Philadelphia, PA 19121.

SYMPOSIUM

FEB 24 @ 9:30 AM
The Wolf Humanities Forum is sponsoring the Heritage & Presence symposium on Feb 24.  It asks: What is the relationship between heritage, shared articulations and sensations of the past, and our lived realities? READ MORE

WATCH JUNGLE NAMA LIVE

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