CEE WILL Mark its 5th Year with a 12-Hour Carnival ON May 1st

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CEE will celebrate its first five years with a 12-hour program themed “Carnival” on Monday, May 1, 2023 at the Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia. From 10:00 am to midnight, CEE’s Carnival will feature academic workshops, panel discussions, screenings, and performances, including:

•  A sound installation recorded by ethnomusicologist Steven Feld that serves as a documentary of anarchist May Day celebrations in Carrara, Italy
• A live performance of Primo Maggio, the anthem of International Worker’s Day, by Trust Your Moves Choir
• A discussion on decolonizing institutional spaces led by Cristiana Giordano, anthropology professor at University of California and Wayne Modest, Director of Content National Museum of World Cultures and the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
• A screening of Ricardo Bracho’s Mexican Psychotic
• A panel discussion with Afghanistan’s most prominent media makers in exile: Najiba Ayubi, Sanjar Sohail, and Roya Sadat
• A relaxation installation by visual and textile artist Emily Carris Duncan
• A performance by the Bearded Ladies followed by a dance party with music by
• DJ Reezey, Rashaun Williams

Former CEE Fellows will return to Penn’s campus to share their research, practice, and creativity during Carnival, which is 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, and the Department of Fine Arts in the Stuart Weitzman School
of Design.