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Cox Family Process Speaker Series Featuring Kevin B. Lee

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Cox Family Process Speaker Series Featuring Kevin B. Lee Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/30/2022 - 09:37

The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ is holding the second installment of the Cox Family Process Speaker Series on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:30pm MT via Zoom Webinar. This event will feature renowned filmmaker and video essayist Kevin B. Lee and his work “Transformers: the Premake.”

The Cox Family Process Speaker Series annual programming seeks to bring renowned artists and scholars to ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ each spring to speak about work that made them well-known in their fields of study and research.

About Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee directs Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. He is a filmmaker, film critic, and producer of over 350 video essays that explore connections between film and media. He is also the Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor Keyframe and founding partner of dGenerate Films (a distribution company for independent Chinese cinema). He often collaborates with filmmaker and media artist Chloé Galibert-Laîné. Their work has been shown at IFFR, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and London Essay Film Festival, as well as art venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival and the WRO Media Art Biennale. Most recntly, he has been appointed the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at USI Università della Svizzera italiana.

WEBSITE: https://www.alsolikelife.com/

About "Transformers: The Premake"

Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, was released June 27, 2014. But for months ahead of the release, on YouTube one could already access an immense trove of production footage recorded by amateurs in locations where the film was shot, such as Utah, Texas, Detroit, Chicago, Hong Kong and mainland China. Transformers: the Premake turns 355 YouTube videos into a critical investigation of the global big budget film industry, amateur video making, and the political economy of images.

The Premake utilizes a “desktop documentary” technique that acknowledges the internet's role not only as a boundless repository of information but as a primary experience of reality. It creatively depicts the process in which we explore a deep web of images and data to reach moments of discovery and decisive action. In a blockbuster cinema culture rife with insipid remakes of franchise properties, The Premake presents a critical counter-image in which personalized digital media asks what Hollywood is really doing in the world.

[video:https://youtu.be/bC--SJZzuFc]

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The Dream State of Lenape & the Indigenous Constitution with Dr. Philip Deloria

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The Dream State of Lenape & the Indigenous Constitution with Dr. Philip Deloria Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/18/2021 - 13:46

Does American pluralism also require a single-minded embrace of the idea of the liberal rights-bearing subject, or could we also imagine a pluralism built around political collectivities? It turns out that United States history has resources for considering group-based pluralism, in the form of American Indian nations. An imaginative return to the first formal American treaty points directly to the key elements in what we might read as an Indigenous Constitution, hiding in plain sight within the U.S. Constitution.

Dr. Philip Deloria, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, gave this virtual lecture on Thursday, November 18th, 2021 from 4-5:30pm.

This event was free and open to the public.

Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. He is the author of several books, including Playing Indian (Yale University Press, 1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, 2004), American Studies: A User’s Guide (University of California Press, 2017), with Alexander Olson, and Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (University of Washington Press, 2019), as well as two co-edited books and numerous articles and chapters. Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1994, taught at the University of Colorado, and then, from 2001 to 2017, at the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018.

Deloria is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is former president of the American Studies Association, an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the recipient of numerous prizes and recognitions, and serves as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2022.

This event was made possible by the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA), the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS), and the Doctoral Consortium for the Literatures and Languages.

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Cox Family Process Speaker Series: Dr. Priscilla Wald

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Cox Family Process Speaker Series: Dr. Priscilla Wald Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/29/2021 - 18:13

The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ held the inaugural installment of the Cox Family Process Speaker Series featuring Dr. Priscilla Wald (English, Duke University) on March 29, 2021 at 3pm MT via Zoom Webinar.

The Cox Family Process Speaker Seriesannual programming will bring renowned artists and scholars to ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ, each spring, to speak about work that made them famous in their fields.

For the inaugural event, Dr. Wald spoke about her book, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Duke University Press 2008) – she shared her inspiration for this critical work, the afterlives of CONTAGIOUS, and thoughts she had about this work given our COVID-19 lives.

A link to the recording of the event can be found here.

Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction literature and film, law and literature, and environmental studies. Her current work focuses on the intersections among the law, literature, science and medicine. Her last book-length study, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative, considers the intersection of medicine and myth in the idea of contagion and the evolution of the contemporary stories we tell about the global health problem of "emerging infections.” Wald is also the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form and co-editor, with Michael Elliott, of volume 6 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English, The American Novel, 1870-1940. She is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Human Being After Genocide. This work chronicles the challenge to conceptions of human being that emerged from scientific and technological innovation in the wake of the Second World War and from the social and political thought of that period, which addressed the geopolitical transformations that followed the war and decolonization movements. Wald is interested in tracking how those debates found expression in what, following several historians, she calls a new mythistory (the term marks the mythic features of a collective history, or creation story). She tracks it through the rise of science fiction as a newly emergent mass genre and then turns to how it inflected the debates around the science and ethics of biotechnology as it became a multi-billion dollar industry. She is interested, in this project, in showing how beliefs and values circulate through mythistories as well as in how, why, and when mythistories become more visible and accessible to change. This project explores the particular importance of science, law, and religion to these stories and works to identify ideas of the sacred that we don’t typically identify as such. Wald is especially interested in analyzing how information emerging from research in the genome sciences circulates through mainstream media and popular culture, thereby shaping a particular understanding of the science that is steeped in (often misleading) cultural biases and assumptions. In her research, her teaching and her professional activities, she is committed to promoting conversations among scholars from science, medicine, law and cultural studies in order to facilitate a richer understanding of how information circulates through language, images, and stories to shape lived experience. Wald's professional service includes: co-editor of American Literature, co-editor, with David Kazanjian and Elizabeth McHenry of the America in the Long Nineteenth Century book series at NYU Press, Chair of the Faculty Board of Duke University Press, member of the Editorial Boards of Penn Studies in Literature and Science and the journal Literature and Medicine, Senior Editor for American Literature, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, and co-director, with Sean Goudie, of the First Book Institute. She has served as President of the American Studies Association and on the National Council of that organization as well as on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and as the MLA representative to the American Council of Learned Societies. Wald is currently Margaret Taylor Smith Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and is on the Faculty Governance Committee of Science and Society and the steering committee of IS&S (Information Sciences + Information Studies) at Duke.

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