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Is Liberation Academic?
Location: NYU Skirball 60 Washington Square South, New YorkA roundtable of University faculty reflect on Gay Liberation – a movement whose story cannot be told without Stonewall – and consider to what extent liberation is an “academic” question, in both senses of the term. Among the issues to be explored: the contested legacies of Stonewall; NYU’s role, then and now; shifts and changes […]
Film Screening: “Celda 211” by Daniel Monzón
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New YorkNYUSPS CALA Spring 2019 Film Series: Crime and Punishment around the World: Incarceration on Film Screening of “Celda 211” Dir. Daniel Monzón (Spain, 2009). Introduced by Felipe Vara del Rey (NYU Tisch, Film) About the Film: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot – the inmate leading the rebellion and the […]
SCREENING – SPEAK UP (OUVRIR LA VOIX)
La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews, New YorkWith director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. In this installation of the 21st Century/New African and African Diaspora Writings and Arts Series, women of African descent in France and Belgium converse about what it means to be a woman today and belong to the Afro community in the documentary film Speak Up […]