CEE NEWS #69

In a moment in which the current political leadership is ordering the reinstatement of confederate memorials and the demolition and erasure of installations like “The President’s House:  Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation,” removed from its site at Market and Sixth Streets and reinstalled last week, it is critical to bring back into view the massive outrage of the summer of 2020, after George Floyd’s murder, that catalyzed many to protest and remove confederate memorials and monuments and other public paeans to white supremacy. 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Third thursday with Angelantonio grossi

 Mar 19| 12 pm | CEE Lounge 438 

For our March Third  Thursday we will break bread with Senior Fellow at CEE, Angelantonio Grossi  in a conversation that bridges Ghanaian popular media cultures, Black Atlantic religions, and music.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

 march 3 | 7-9pm | annenberg room 110

Join us for a screening of the film “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack” and learn about the health crisis in Gaza from Penn doctors who have returned from there. The event is open to any PennCard holder.  

Künü // SCreening & discussion

 march 17 | 4pm | rainey auditorium 

Join us for a film screening with Mapuche visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and art history scholar Francisco Huichaqueo. Francisco will present his work Künü, which portrays the land-back struggle of 80 communities from Loncoche, between the cities of Temuco and Valdivia in what is today known as “southern Chile.” The film explores how Mapuche lands have been occupied by Chilean capital-based transnational forestry company Arauco, and it follows the process through which the native communities organize themselves to reclaim their ancestral land.

Searching for the Songs of the Wanaragua // SCREENINg & Discussion

 march 18 | 4pm | VAN PELT LIBRARY RM 241

Save the date for a film screening and discussion at Penn Libraries, organized by Latin American Studies Librarian Brie Gettleson.

In 2023 Cesar Vargas Sabio, a Honduran Garifuna teacher, and Eli LaBan, an American filmmaker, spent 3 months traveling across Honduras recording traditional Wanaragua songs to support Garifuna language preservation.

PAST EVENTS

CEE Fall FELLOW final EVENT: Ṣèègèsí

Ṣèègèsí (pronounced shay-gay-see) is a durational performance that explores the ritual of hair braiding as a practice of survival. Over 8 hours, performance and visual artist Courtney Desiree Morris will install a set of braid extensions in her hair in the museum. The performance will be accompanied by a soundscape of five mixtapes. Audience members are invited to make offerings of pennies, flowers, sweets, honey, stones/minerals, or shells.

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NOV. 29th | PENN MUSEUM | 10am- 5pm

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