CEE NEWS #55

After the talk, one of my colleagues reminded us that museums and other institutions were hasty and haphazard as they plundered, accumulated, traded, and collected the cultural belongings and ancestors that now populate their exhibits and storage areas, and asked whether there was any sphere in which the dominant impulse with respect to collection was slowness. 

UPCOMING EVENTS

EMBODIED ENGAGEMENTS
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GUIDE 
Kesha Fikes 

TIME/PLACE
October 19 & 20th 12PM-2PM at Widener Auditorium
 The intention is to provide space for embodied dialogue with what remains politically unrepaired and viscerally unpresenced across campuses and indeed, across the world. Politics are such that the proposed space cannot offer emotional safety because the parameters of engagement are not neutral. Neither can embodiment praxes stand-in for any kind of communal “leveling” or resolution. This offering is a guided non-verbal inquiry of slow, moderate, and fast pacing where people of various bodily abilities assemble to track the suspended breath that right now cannot exhale. KEEP READING...

OCT 19 & 20th |  NOON | WIDENER

MEET THE FELLOWS
SPEAKERS 
CAMP // Shaina Anand & Ashok Sukumaran

TIME/PLACE
October 17 at the Center for Experimental Ethnography
CAMP (founded by Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran in 2007) is a Mumbai-based studio of people who are artists, architects, filmmakers, and technologists. They host long-running video archives Pad.ma and Indiancine.ma, a rooftop cinema for the past 15 years, and make art that is possessed of an infrastructural imagination. CAMP’s artworks have been exhibited in biennales, museums and film festivals worldwide, and in the streets, markets and neighbourhoods of Bangalore, San Jose, Dakar, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Kolkata, Kabul, Delhi, Ljubljana, Münster and Bombay and are in the permanent collection of major museums....KEEP READING...

OCT 17 |  NOON | CEE

PAST EVENTS
EL COMITÉ AND
​ECUADOR’S PRISON CRISIS ​
 A film-screening and conversation about a prison revolt against corruption and the institutional abuses experienced by people living behind bars... 
SPEAKERS 
Jorge Nuñéz (University of Amsterdam)
​Kristina Lyons

FILM TITLE
El Comité: La Toma del Penal García Moreno (2005).
SITE
At the Public Trust (4017 Walnut Street) on March 19th at 5PM. 
The Black Reproductive Working Group March Meeting

SHIPS : SPIRITING OUR SURVIVAL

A film project in progress that explores the conceptual parallels between ships and birth, specifically for Black birth givers, as both vessels of captivity and freedom.
On March 21 at the Public Trust building, the Black Reproductive Working Group of Philly will screen a short film in-progress, “Ships: Spiriting Our Survival” by Azsaneé Truss and Cienna Davis. The film explores the conceptual parallels between ships and birth, specifically for Black birth givers, as both vessels of captivity and freedom. It combines historical research in Philadelphia, interviews with doulas and professors, and footage from a ship-building class led by Dr. Grace Sanders Johnson. Conversation with filmmakers will follow, and lunch will be served. 
CREATOR:
Azsaneé Truss and Cienna Davis

SITE
4017 Walnut St (The Public Trust)
 March 21
    

DISILLUSIONED // THIRD THURSDAY

"The suburban lifestyle dream is a Ponzi scheme whose unraveling threatens us all. How do we come to terms with this troubled history? How do we build a future in which all children can thrive?"
Brooke O'Harra moderates an event with Benjamin Herold who is the author of Disillusioned, a book that explores the U.S.’s beautiful and busted public education system. Benjamin will be joined by mother and education organizer Bethany Smith, whose experience in the Penn Hills suburbs is one of the case studies he follows. The noon conversation will focus on  collaboration and the relationship between journalism and ethnography.
SPEAKERS
Benjamin Herold  and 
Bethany Smith
in conversation with Brooke O'Harra
SITE
Virtual Third Thursday, on March 21 @ Noon

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