CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Haven: Harbor  | 2024-2025 Theme

WELCOME BACK!
For those of you whose semesters have already started, I hope they’ve done so gently.  And for those of you who have a few weeks left of summer, please bask in it!!  We are thrilled to begin a new year at the CEE, and to elaborate our theme Haven:Harbor. 

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. 

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
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
    

WATCH & LISTEN

BE HOLDING

MEET THE FALL FELLOWS
We are excited to share "Be Holding," the Philadelphia-based collaboration between Brooke O'Harra (CEE Affiliated Faculty), Ross Gay, Tyshawn Sorey, Yarn/Wire, and the students of Girard College. This original performance transforms Ross Gay's award-winning poem of the same name into a multidisciplinary, site-specific experience that combines poetry, music, choreography, and video.
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At the first virtual Third Thursday of the academic year, Dr. Jasmine Johnson conversed with incoming CEE Fellows Jennifer Harge and Sosena Solomon, who are teaching interdisciplinary master classes with students from across the schools. 

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