CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Empathic Thresholds | 2022-2023 Theme

CEE #41: February Third Thursday, Screenings, and more! 

After more Februarys in the north of the Global North than I care to enumerate, I am finally coming to the realization that the groundhog will always see his shadow, and we will always have six more weeks of winter.  Anything else is wishful thinking...

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

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

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

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.

SPRING COURSES

EMBODIED ETHNOGRAPHIES

Performance Art, Ritual Performance, and Poetic Praxis
Instructor: Imani Uzuri
Led by composer, vocalist, librettist, experimental ethnographer and conceptual artist Imani Uzuri (she/they), this course will investigate embodied research modalities (from mundane to ethereal), performance praxis centering Blackness, Indigeneity, queerness and cultural practices outside of the western eurocentric gaze embedded with the politics of agency, marginality, identity, mythmaking, subversiveness and sacredness...


AFRC366/666 | ANTH 666 |  GSWS3663401 | MUSC6663401

AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

In the Age of Online Profiles and Selfies
Instructor: Wazhmah Osman

What drives people to make work about themselves? What qualifies as autoethnography, and what distinguishes autoethnography from other forms of autobiographical storytelling? We all have stories to tell. Course readings will draw from the growing literature on how to establish researcher/activist partnerships, as well as from case studies that exemplify the controversies, debates, and pivotal moments in the history of non-fiction film....

​ANTH6662401, CIMS3662401, COMM3662401, COMM6662401, FNAR3662401

RECENT EVENTS

"Jungle-nama"
​MARCH 2&3 | 7 PM
The Center for Experimental Ethnography invites audiences to the first English stage performance of Amitav Ghosh's adaptation of an episode from the legend of Bon Bibi, titled: "Jungle-nama: A Story of the Sundarban." The performance will take place at the Prince Theatre at Penn Live Arts. MORE

Illustration by Salman Toor
Third Thursday: Meet the Fellows 
Feb 17th 2022
 February's Third Thursday event where CEE spring Fellows Amitav Ghosh and Ali Sethi discussed their collaboration on a course they are teaching with Penn's own Brooke O'Harra.  Amitav, Ali, and Brooke are leading students in a rigorous process of research, development, and rehearsal, culminating in a public performance 
KEEP READING
Third Thursday:
Osman +
Alexandrowicz
​Jan 20th 2022
Thursday, January 20 2022 the Center for Experimental Ethnography's Third Thursday had a conversation with Wazhmah Osman, Assistant Professor at Temple University, and Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Director, Screenwriter, and Editor.  KEEP READING

WATCH JUNGLE NAMA LIVE

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