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ISRST Sponsored Events |
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SPRING 2006 |
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Temple University, Tuttleman Hall, Room 105| 6pm or 6:30PM (see flyer)
POLITICS IN FILM SERIES |
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The Politics in Film Series offers regular, large-screen showings of classic explorations of key political themes in film with the hope of further illuminating central questions and problems that students are encountering in their coursework. Please check the "Affiliates" page for more information about these events. Upcoming Films Include:
March 30th, DR. STRANGELOVE
April 6th, BATTLE OF ALGIERS
April 27th, GODFATHER II |
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Tuesday, April 25| Temple University, Anderson Hall, Room 1123| 6-7:30PM
PHILADELPHIA POETS SERIES: EWUARE OSAYANDE
The Quarterly Black Review has called Osayande "one of Black America's newest insurgent intellectuals coming to the table with enough mental firepower to be a
David Walker for our time.”
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Join us as we bring Temple scholars together to address the body of work created by a non-academic, community-based poet and essayist living in the city of Philadelphia for the past twelve years. This event is sponsored by the Center for Humanities at Temple and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.
An independent scholar and activist, in 1991 Osayande established Talking Drum Communications and has since written and published more than thirteen books. A central figure in the social justice movement out of the city of Philadelphia, PA, he is co-founder and director of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism), a grass-roots initiative that educates and empowers participants to resist oppression. He is also the creator of Project ONUS: Redefining Black Manhood.
Osayande will read from his most recent book, Blood Luxury, published by Africa World Press. World renowned poet Amiri Baraka provides the introduction to the book. In it he writes, “Blood Luxury is, in its solid composition, its raging metaphor, its relentless ideological analysis, one coming attraction of how tough this lad gonna be.” More information available at www.osayande.org
Click here for the Philadelphia Poets Series flyer.
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Friday, April 7| Temple University, Anderson Hall, Room 1221 | 9AM - 6:30PM
HERETICAL NIETZSCHE STUDIES
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In its present condition, Nietzsche scholarship reveals many divisions. On such topics as Nietzsche’s political thinking, his views on religion, his relation to feminism and the critique of gender, his growing impact on race and postcolonial studies, and his ongoing contributions to French post-structural thought, a healthy body of literature has emerged over the course of the past thirty years.
This symposium will be a one-day meeting of a group of scholars whose research makes creative use of central Nietzschean themes. The chosen title for the meeting, “Heretical Nietzsche Studies,” is to underscore the paradox in Nietzsche’s thought. Might perhaps heretical readings stand as the best homage to Nietzsche’s thought?
Speakers include Christa Accompora (Hunter College-CUNY), Debra Bergoffen (George Mason), Janet Borgerson (Exeter), Ellen K. Feder (American), Todd Franklin (Hamilton College), Lewis Gordon (Temple), Bob Guay (Binghamton University/Barnard College, Nelson Maldonado-Torres (UC-Berkeley), Thomas Meyer (Temple), Michael Monahan (Marquette), Richard Pithouse (University of Natal-Durban), and Marylin Nissim-Sabat (Lewis). This event is supported by the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium and, at Temple, the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, the Philosophy Department, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and the Center for the Humanities.
Click here for the Heretical Nietzsche Studies flyer.
Click here for photos of the Heretical Nietzsche Studies conference. |
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Wednesday, March 29| Temple University, Gladfelter Hall, 10th Floor | 3PM
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE "AMERICAN": A DIALOGUE |
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Guest Facilitator Elvinet S. Wilson, Ph.D. student of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University writes of this event:
"The quest to explain the current paradox of globalization has made debates on immigration and border crossing exceedingly complex. This complexity exists in both the nature and significance of citizenship discourse and the impact of those who challenge that discourse, making it increasingly difficult to predict the future of local and international relations. Such overall complexity has caused nations and individuals alike to act out of fear at the same time as it improves the possibilities for cross-cultural communication, peaceful accords and information exchange. The primary motivation of my research is to critique the hegemonic discourses of colonization and imperialism within the dynamic and complex cultural context of the current historical moment...." Click here to read more.
Click here for the What it Means to be "American": A Dialogue flyer.
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February 24| Temple University, Anderson Hall, Room 1221| 11:30AM
MELVILLE HERSKOVITS VERSUS FRANKLIN FRAZIER
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Dr. Livio Sansone, associate professor in anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia, will present a lecture entitled Melville Herskovits versus Franklin Frazier and the making of the American black family in Bahia: on the transnational nature of Afro-Brazilian studies. Dr. Sansone is currently Coordinator of the Commission for Ethnic and Race Relations (CRER) of the Brazilian Anthropological Association, head of the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies, and head of the International Training and Exchange Program " The Factory of Ideas." He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many books and articles, including, most recently, the books Blackness Without Ethnicity. The local and the global in Brazilian race relations and black cultural production (New York: Palgrave/St.Martin’s Press 2003), Negritude sem etnicidade. O local e o global nas relações raciais no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro: Pallas/EDUFBA 2004), and Simone Maio e Livio Sansone eds. Raça, Etnicidade e Saúde Reprodutiva (Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fiocruz 2004). |
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Click here for the Melville Herskovits Versus Franklin Frazier flyer .
Click here for photos of the Melville Herskovits Versus Franklin Frazier conference. |
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February 23| Temple University, Tuttleman Hall, Room 105| 6PM
THE POLITICS OF BLACK BEAUTY IN BAHIA |
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This event, co-sponsored by Jane Gordon's Politics in Film Series, will include the viewing of Dr. Angela Figueiredo's EBONY GODDESS, a documentary on the Black Beauty context of the all-black carnival association Ilê Ayié in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. EBONY GODDESS is a film presentation of her ethnographic work on how the festivals reveal race and gender dynamics in the lives of black Brazilian women. Dr. Figueiredo is currently a Post Doc Research Fellow of the Brazilian Research Council (CNPg). Her most recent production also includes a theatre play entitled "Nove Homens e o destino" (2004), as well the book "Novas elites de cor: Estudo sobre os profissionais liberais de Salvador" (São Paulo: Annablume, 2002)." |
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Click here for The Politics of Black Beauty in Bahia flyer.
Click here for photos of The Politics of Black Beauty in Bahia. |
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Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought
Anderson Hall (022-28) - 1114 West Berks Street - Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
Phone: (215) 204-5621 - Fax: (215) 204-2535 - Email: isrst@temple.edu |
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