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CEE #40: welcome spring fellows!!!

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Happy new year everyone!!  I hope 2023 has landed well, and that you are all looking forward to a fantastic year! Welcome 2023 Spring Fellow Imani Uzuri and Wazhmah Osman!

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Meet the Fellows Third thursday 

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DEC 10th @ 5PM

Please join us at Scribe Video Center this Saturday for a screening of films by the students of "Filming the Future of Philadelphia", a course led by our Fall fellow Damani Partridge. 
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Dec 9 @ 4:30

Join us IN-PERSON  at Dec 9 at the Morgan Gallery for a release party for "Field Notes" and a conversation with Saya Woolfalk, CEE Fall Fellow. No registration necessary.

SPRING COURSES

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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
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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


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WElCOME, FALL FELLOWS!

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SAYA WOOLFALK

Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.  With the multi year projects No Place, The Empathics, and ChimaTEK, Woolfalk has created the world of the Empathics, a fictional race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of these women's lives, and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity. ​  KEEP READING...
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DAMANI PARTRIDGE

Damani Partridge is a Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Partridge has published broadly on questions of citizenship, affect, urban space, sexuality, decolonization, post-Cold War “freedom,” Holocaust memorialization, African-American military occupation, Blackness and embodiment, the production of noncitizens, the culture and politics of “fair trade,” and the Obama moment in Berlin. He currently directs the Filming Future Cities Project in Detroit and Berlin.  KEEP READING...

RECENT EVENTS

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"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
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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 
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Third Thursday:
Osman +
Alexandrowicz
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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

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