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UPCOMING EVENTS

SPRING 2021 FELLOWS EVENTS

The Contest over "Indigeneity"
Apr 29, 2021 I 7:00 PM
Curated and organized by Jenny Chio (jchio@usc.edu)
Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography
This online screening and discussion series explores how the category and concept of “Indigenous identity” has taken on divergent meanings in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In each political space, “Indigenous” has come to represent and symbolize the different stakes of identity, culture, and heritage in the modern world, while grappling with ongoing political tensions around national sovereignty, China’s global influence, and social solidarity.

The event will include a website with film screenings and pre-recorded dialogues between filmmakers and scholars, a live conversation featuring the organizers and select participating filmmakers/scholars (depending upon availability), and a printed event catalogue with filmmaker biographies, film descriptions, an essay by Jenny Chio outlining the key issues and themes raised by the films and dialogues, and a reflective essay by a prominent scholar of China/East Asia that will outline the broader, global stakes of Indigenous discourses in Asia.
GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!!... and others merely shaking
May 1, 2021 I 3:00 PM EST​
Curated and organized by Reggie Wilson
Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography

An online screening and conversation curated by Reggie Wilson/ This event will include a special screening of "Grounds that Shout! ...and others merely shaking", a documentary by Gordon Divine Asaah that follows the Reggie Wilson-curated series of performances in May 2019. These performances responded to the layered histories of Philadelphia’s religious spaces through contemporary dance and reflected on the relationships and connections between practices of movement and worship with eight choreographers and performance groups performing in four historic Philadelphia churches. The live, synchronous event at CEE will feature Reggie Wilson in conversation with CEE Director Deborah Thomas, participants in the GTS project, and others."

PAST APRIL EVENTS

​TOWARD A RADICALLY HUMANIST ANTHROPOLOGY
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Since the earliest days of the discipline, anthropological knowledge production has been deeply rooted in a set of foundational distinctions that have been integral to the creation of regimes of domination, eradication, and extraction that continue to pose existential challenges to the entire globe. Eurocentric perspectives based on anti-Blackness and white supremacist, colonialist assumptions have long insisted upon the separation of “nature” and “culture” and “self” and “other.” These dichotomies have structured research, teaching, and the training of generations of anthropologists with far-reaching and often detrimental impacts on marginalized communities around the world. This panel serves to open a series of conversations dedicated to exploring the possibilities of an anthropology grounded in a commitment to “radical humanism.” 
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APRIL THIRD THURSDAY
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On Thursday, April 15th at Noon,  the virtual Third Thursday event led by CAMRA,  discussed  Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF) during CEE’s April Third Thursday. The festival, a hybrid academic conference and media festival that offers multimodal scholars working across various forms and fields an opportunity for critical discourse and collaboration, was held on April 16-18, 2021. Members of the CAMRA directors’ team and the SSMF planning committee gave a preview of this year’s festival and discuss the challenges of adapting a conference centered around the theme of Rupture and Repair (originally intended for the 2020 Festival that was cancelled due to COVID-19) for a virtual platform. They highlighted the promises and pitfalls of engaging different modalities in an effort to maintain the spirit, ethics, and ethos originally intended for the in-person event. 
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Spring 2021 FELLOWS

Dr. Jenny Chio

Jenny Chio is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Keep reading... 

Reggie wilson

Reggie Wilson is Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer and Performer of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group.  His work draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and is combined with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he sometimes refers to as "post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances." Keep reading...

INTRODUCING THE VISUAL IDENTITIES iN ARTS AND DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP (VIAD)

The CEE  and The Visual Identities in Arts and Design Research Group at the University of Johannesburg are forging exciting transatlantic connections. Established in 2007, the VIAD research group is dedicated to deepening research around the overarching thematic of identity construction through forms of visual practice, visual culture and visual representation, and specifically in relation to African and Afrodiasporic histories and experiences. Learn more

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