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Empathic Thresholds | 2022-2023 Theme
CEE'S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
CARnIVAL RECAP
On May 1, we celebrated our first five years with a 12-hour program themed “Carnival” at the Penn Museum from 10:00 am to midnight. CEE’s Carnival featured academic workshops, panel discussions, screenings, and performances, and installations. Check out this video recap of our event!
Co-sponsored by the departments of Anthropology and Music, the Center for Media at Risk, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, the Program in Cinema Studies, the Center for Programs in
Contemporary Writing, Penn Museum and the Department of Fine Arts in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Co-sponsored by the departments of Anthropology and Music, the Center for Media at Risk, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, the Program in Cinema Studies, the Center for Programs in
Contemporary Writing, Penn Museum and the Department of Fine Arts in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
WElCOME, Spring FELLOWS!
Imani UzuriImani 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...
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Wazhmah OsmanWazhmah 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...
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upcoming EVENTS
In conversation at PAFA, student-creators of the CEE "Reckoning and Repair" podcast reflect on relationships, deep listening, and the role of artists as activists and critics.
Panel speakers are: Katleho Kano Shoro, Chrislyn Laurie Larore, Adrianna Brusie, Anya Martin and Alissa M Jordan |
BE HOLDING is an original performance created by poet Ross Gay, composer Tyshawn Sorey, New Music Ensemble Yarn/Wire, and director Brooke O’Harra, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Pennsylvania.. MORE INFO
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This year's Tambufest will feature the St. Thomas Kumina Collective, Charlestown Maroon Group, Kingston Drummers, Port Maria Jonkanoo Group, Manchioneal Cultural Group (Bruckins) and Islington Cultural Group (Dinki Mini). READ MORE
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recent EVENTS
Virtual film screening of Sonia Vaz Borges and Filipa Cesar's film "Mangrove School" on February 13th through the 19th. WATCH HERE
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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
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. |
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
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