November 3, 2015 – Dr. Dede Fairchild Ruggles

Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sound and Scent in the Andalusian Garden

TUE. NOV. 3, 2015
4:30 PM | RECEPTION
5:00 PM | LECTURE
FREE ADMISSION
Bryn Mawr College
Goodhart Hall, Music Rm
150 N Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr
INFO
www.albustanseeds.org
info@albustanseeds.org
267-809-3668
Co-presented by Bryn Mawr College’s Middle East Studies Program and Arabic Program

Islamic gardens were richly sensory environments: the poets tell us so, the manuscript paintings show us, and our own encounters with modern gardens remind us of these pleasures.

Dr. Ruggles will discuss the Andalusian Garden as she tries to answer the question: how do we study the sensory experiences of the past, given that the ephemeral effects of scented flowers and fleeting sounds leave so few traces?

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November 9, 2015 – Film Screening: “An American in Madras”

Documentary Film by Karan Bali

Monday, November 9, 2015
Bryn Mawr College
Thomas Library 224
4:30 PM

Discussion with the filmmaker and refreshments following the film.

Tracing the career of American director Ellis Dungan in the Madras film studios in the 1930s and 40s, Mumbai-based filmmaker Karan Bali explores the fascinating cross-cultural encounter at the heart of the formative years of sound cinema in South India.

Co-sponsored by the Bryn Mawr College Program in Film Studies, Department of Anthropology and the Center for Visual Culture.

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November 2, 2015 – Uri McMillan

Assistant Professor, Department of English, UCLA

Sensing Grace Jones: and Other Sensuous Ways of Knowing

Monday, November 2, 2015
Bryn Mawr College
Thomas Library 2247-9 PM

Co-sponsored by the Bryn Mawr College Program in Film Studies, Department of English, Department of History of Art, Program in Gender & Sexuality
and the Center for Visual Culture

In this paper, I approach the oversize, sculptural, and strikingly geometric presence of Jamaican-born model-actress-fashion muse-performer Grace Jones–a figure whose slipperiness has frustrated attempts to decode precise meanings from her large body of body–via performance studies and recent turns to the sensorium. I attempt to reposition Jones, the seeming enfant terrible of art history, in an interdisciplinary framework that recognizes her as a savvy performer, rather than simple aesthetic object, and one that approaches her through multiple senses, rather than simply the musical or ocular. In doing so, Jones emerges as a figure exceeding mere skin, surface, and sound.
Uri McMillan is a cultural historian who researches and writes in the interstices between black cultural studies, performance studies, queer theory, and contemporary art. His first book, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (NYU, 2015) is on black performance art, objecthood, and avatars staged by black women artists. He has published articles on performance art, digital media, hip-hop, photography, and nineteenth-century performance cultures in varied arenas such as Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, and e-misferica (all are available for download at urimcmillan.com). In addition, he has lectured at art museums, including MoMA PS1 and the Hammer Museum, and published numerous essays on black contemporary art for the Studio Museum of Harlem. His work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

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October 6, 2015 – Between Worlds: Cyprus in Late Antiquity

Henry Maguire
Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University, History of Art
“The Gods, Christ and the Emperor in the Late Antique Art of Cyprus”

Charalambos Bakirtzis
Director, Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, Cyprus
“Sea Routes and Cape Drepanon: Excavations at Agios Georgios tis Pegeias, Cyprus”

Tuesday, October 6th, 6:00 PM
University of Pennsylvania
104 Jaffe Building

Sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies at Penn.

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October 1, 2015 – Anthony Cutler Special Lecture

Evan Pugh University Professor in Art History
Penn State University

“Looking for the Exotic in Byzantium and Early Islam”

Thursday, October 1st, 4:30 PM
Bryn Mawr College, Thomas Library 224

Co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture, Middle East Studies Program, Department of History of Art, and the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Light refreshments served. Free and open to the public.

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September 29, 2015 – Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry & Music

A talk by scholars Dr. Huda Fakhreddine & Dr. Lital Levy
Co-presented by University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (NELC)

TUESDAY
SEPT. 29, 2015 | 7 PM
FREE ADMISSION
University of Pennsylvania
Houston Hall, Ben Franklin Rm
3417 Spruce St, Philadelphia
INFO
www.albustanseeds.org
info@albustanseeds.org
267-809-3668

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4th Annual Tri-Co Student Film Screenings and Festival

The 4th Annual Tri-Co Film Festival is next week! From a record number of submissions, a selection of student films from Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges will be showcased Thursday, May 7th at 7pm at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.
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Can’t make the festival? End of semester screenings for individual classes will take place across the three campuses April 29th-May 10th, 2015.

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Don’t miss all the opportunities to see innovative student work and support the Tri-Co visual culture community!

Hilary Brashear, 2015 Director
Dani Ford, 2015 Associate Director
tricofilmfest@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: 2015 TRICO Film Festival

The call for submissions is open for the third annual Tri-Co Film Festival! Selected works will be shown at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute on Thursday, May 7, at 7pm. All short films completed during the Summer of 2014, the Fall 2014 Semester and the 2015 Spring Semester that have been directed by students currently attending Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges are eligible. The deadline for submissions is:

Friday, April 24, 11:59 pm (Works-in-progress will be accepted as long as they will be completed by May 4th )

To be eligible, films must be no more than 10 minutes long (shorter works are strongly encouraged), produced by current Tri-Co students after the Spring 2014 semester in any style: experimental, documentary, narrative, animation, found-footage, glitch art, gifs or a fusion of genres. This year we will also consider multi-modal digital media submissions, such as websites, online interactive maps, video games, etc.

APPLICANTS MAY FIND SPECIFIC SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS HERE

Founded by Swarthmore Professor Erica Cho in 2012, the Tri-Co Film Festival showcases exceptional student work. The festival is supported by the Film and Media Studies Department at Swarthmore College, the Film Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College, the John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College, and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.

CONTACT:

tricofilmfest@gmail.com
Hilary Brashear, 2015 Festival Director
Dani Ford, 2015 Festival Associate Director

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November 8, 2014 – Carolee Schneemann event

2pm: Bryn Mawr Film Institute (Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA) Breaking the Frame screening

4pm: Bryn Mawr College Canaday Library Gallery
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5pm: Bryn Mawr College Thomas Great Hall
Performative lecture by Carolee Schneemann and reception

A screening of Breaking the Frame (2012; 100 minutes)—a film on Schneemann’s life and work by Marielle Nitoslawska—at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, followed by a talk with exhibition curator Brian Wallace in the Canaday Library gallery, and then the performative lecture by Carolee Schneeman in Thomas Great Hall.

**Carolee Schneemann at Bryn Mawr exhibition in Canaday Library gallery open 11 am – 7 pm on Saturday**

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS AT http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/schneemann.html AND http://www.brynmawrfilm.org/films/?id=1225

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