CENTER FOR EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Empathic Thresholds | 2022-2023 Theme
CEE'S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
CARNIVAL
MAY 1 2023
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Join us on May 1, 2023 for 12 hours of revelry, performance, screenings, and conversation in celebration of our fifth anniversary. Events kick off with a live performance of Primo Maggio, with screenings, performances, and treats throughout. Chill out in a relaxation installation, hear from Afghanistan's most prominent media makers in exile (in a conversation led by Wazhmah Osman), hear from Amitav Ghosh, participate in multiple soundings with Imani Uzuri, watch a drag performance by Cookie D'orio, dance to late night beats from DJ Reezy, and so much more!
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Free and open to the public.
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
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
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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
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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
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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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