Please join us for our monthly CEE Third Thursday event. This month, CEE affiliated faculty Margit Edwards will be hosting a discussion  with Nicosia Shakes, Profesor and Author of Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa: Gender, Race, and Performance Space . Please join us for an exciting conversation over lunch and refreshments  

Please join us for Ṣèègèsí , our CEE Fall Fellow Courtney Desiree Morriss Final Event! No registration needed!
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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.

​The event includes a film preservation workshop and panel discussion on four recently restored Senegalese newsreels from the 1960s and 70s. We will be joined by Dr. Mamadou Diouf, Professor of African Studies and History at Columbia University and Visiting Professor at Global Studies University of Sharjah (AE), as well as Tiziana Manfredi from Atelier MamiWata and consultant to the Cinematography Department of Senegal.  The workshop and screening are catered towards student, faculty and community members interested in film/photography preservation and restoration, national archiving and storytelling, political histories of Senegal, West Africa and the Caribbean as well as Black arts festivals of the 1960s and 70s. The newsreels will be screened in their original French language with English subtitles. 

Join us for a screening of "The Prison in Twelve Landscapes" by Brett Story, a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.  

Join us for a screening of the academy-award shortlisted documentary "Union" and a conversation with co-director Brett Story. Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York. Documenting the struggle in intimate cinéma vérité, UNION presents a gripping human drama about the fight for power and dignity in today's globalized economic landscape.