Deciphering Strange Breathin’: Sci-Fi and Comics as Decolonial Weapons
A conversation with GYSTERE, Musician, Director, Cartoonist, Intergalactic Keytar Hero
Presented by the Film Studies Program, the Department of French and Francophone Studies, and The Center for Visual Culture
Tuesday 2/23/21
12:30 PM
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Professor and Chair of African American Studies
Core faculty member of the Culture & Theory Ph.D. Program at UC Irvine
American writer, dramatist, filmmaker and critic
Cinematic Slavery: the Longue Durée of Social Death
The antagonism between Blacks and Humans lurks beneath the surface of 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013). But in Manderlay (Lars von Trier, 2005) this antagonism avoids the pitfalls of disavowal that all too often characterize the signifying strategies of 12 Years a Slave and, by extension, public debates around race. At the core of this civic and cinematic disavowal, is the failure of discourse to remain in the hold of the ship; manifest in an inability or unwillingness to grapple with the difference between gratuitous violence, which elaborates and positions Black people, and contingent violence, which disciplines non-Black subalterns once those subalterns have been elaborated and positioned by discourse (the symbolic order).
7PM- EST
Suggested background films:
Associate Professor
Department of African American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
7-8:30 PM
EST
* Unless otherwise specified, this lecture will be recorded.
Screening of Gyres 1-3
The Bryn Mawr College Friends of the Library and the Center for Visual Culture
present:
Lessons in Cloth from Late Antique Egypt: Worn, Embodied, and Remembered
Thelma Thomas
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
The Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Carpenter B-21
4:30 PM
Reception following lecture in Canaday 205
Support provided by the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library, LITS and its department of Special Collections, the Center for Visual Culture, the Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Jefferson University, 360° Program
In conjunction with the exhibition
ReconTEXTILEize
Byzantine Textiles from Late
Antiquity to the Present
April 18-June 2, 2019
Canaday Library, Lobby and Special Collections Suite
Park Science Center, Science Crossroads
Slought is pleased to announce “An island, a ship, a prison”, a conversation and installation of video works by Domietta Torlasco on Wednesday, October 10, 2018 from 6-8pm. The event will begin with the screening of House Arrest (2015) and Sunken Gardens (2016), two videos that engage themes such as migrancy, borders, surveillance, and debt, followed by conversation with Homay King, Professor in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. In conjunction with this event, Torlasco’s work will also be continuously screened in the Slought Mediatheque from October 10-31, 2018. This program is co-presented with the Bryn Mawr College Program in Film Studies.
For more info visit:
https://slought.org/resources/an_island_a_ship_a_prison
Slought
4017 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Homay King
Chair, Professor, and Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Humanities
Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Camera Obscura editorial collective
President Kim Cassidy cordially invites you to a lecture by:
Homay King
Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History of Art
“A Tale of Four Butterflies: Early Madame Butterfly Film Adaptations”
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Thomas 224
4:30 p.m.
Reception to follow in the London Room.
The Bryn Mawr College Department of History of Art presents:
Zoë Cohen (HC ’99)
“Sanctuaries & Origin Stories: The Schul/Church Project and Other Recent Work”
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Carpenter Library 21
4-6 PM
With additional support from the Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate Dean’s Office and the Haverford College John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities
Zoë Cohen is a visual artist who works in a wide range of materials and modalities, creating works on paper, sculptures, installations, audio works, and public participatory projects. She received her BA in Fine Arts from Haverford College and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Brooklyn College. Zoë’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Abington Art Center (PA), The Flux Factory (NYC), The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, The Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia), and at Arttransponder (Berlin), and is in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, The Philadelphia Cathedral, the Museum of Art and Peace, and Kol Tzedek Synagogue (Philadelphia). Zoë’s Residencies include The Vermont Studio Center, Philadelphia’s 40th Street AIR program, and the Artist-in-Residence program at the Philadelphia Cathedral. She has taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and as an Adjunct Lecturer at The University of the Arts and Moore College of Art. She was recently awarded the New Courtland Teaching Fellowship from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Zoë lives with her husband and two children in West Philadelphia.
Zoë Cohen creates images, installations, and situations that explore origins, identities, and environments. Her research-based practice bridges contemporary concerns with inquiry into a wide range of visual and cultural heritage. In her talk she will discuss her current Shul/Church projects, in which she works with watercolor, paper, and sound, using a light touch in relationship to the weight of history, in order to offer a window into the layers of identity and experience that inform our complex contemporary lives.
