Events, News, Workshops
February 14, 2023: Screening of Yehuda Sharim’s film Letters2Maybe (2021)
February 15, 2023: Workshop with Yehuda Sharim (“A Map of Light: Creativity & Inspiration during Dark Times”)
On behalf of The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee cordially invites everyone to two events with filmmaker Professor Yehuda Sharim (UC Merced, California):
Tuesday, Feb 14 (4 pm, room 00.212, Philo II)
Screening of Sharim’s documentary film Letters2Maybe (2021)
with an introduction by the director and a Q&A session afterwards.
Yehuda Sharim is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and poet. As the son of Persian immigrants to Israel, his work focuses on the relationship between the quotidian and poetic. Sharim’s films have appeared in film festivals, artistic venues, and universities across the world. Oscillating between fiction and documentary filmmaking, his work offers an intimate portrayal of those who refuse to surrender amidst daily devastation and culminating strife, offering a vision for equality and a renewed solidarity in a divisive world. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Program of Global Art Studies, University of California, Merced.
Letters2Maybe is an intimate portrayal of those who refuse to surrender amidst daily devastation and culminating strife, offering a vision for equality and a renewed sense of solidarity in a divisive country. Letters2Maybe offers a fluid and eclectic tapestry of physical and emotional movement of different immigrant communities as they encounter impossible challenges in a country of compounded catastrophes. By embracing a kaleidoscopic style of storytelling to highlight the poetics and precarity that follow the craving for freedom, Letters2Maybe is an unfinished letter, articulating the ever-growing yet unflinching demand for justice and tenderness in our world today. (2021; 92 min.)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/539713966
Website: http://www.letters2maybe.com/
New Jersey Film Festival: Letters2Maybe Review
International Documentary Film Festival Vienna: Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award
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Wednesday, Feb 15 (10-12am, room 02.102, Philo II)
An informal workshop, led by Yehuda Sharim
“A Map of Light: Creativity & Inspiration during Dark Times”
A Map of Light: Creativity & Inspiration during Dark Times (workshop) – The camera is obsessed with light. Darkness is never considered aesthetically pleasing. We are told that we need to see: we need to see as a way to learn, and make sense. And light is the most critical ingredient in shaping that illusion of “seeing” as “being.” We are like our cameras, chasing lights, forgetting that darkness and the uncertainty that accompanies darkness are inseparable from any source of light. In this talk, we will interrogate what it means to follow a creative vision (start a film, book, and more), exploring this desire to create, shape, and enter a space of experimentation. We will examine different aspects of community-cinema and take into consideration the various personal/collective challenges and doubts that keep us away from the work that we know we are meant to do. This talk is about that thirst to film and create new visions during calamitous times.
@sharimstudio (Instagram)
https://www.facebook.com/SHARIMSTUDIO
https://www.sharimstudio.com/
Everyone is welcome to join us for one or both events. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
Contact: Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee (mita.banerjee@uni-mainz.de) or Christine Plicht (c.plicht@uni-mainz.de)
You can download the posters for the events here: Screening Feb 14 & Workshop Feb 15.
News, Workshops
Research Group “Transnational Periodical Cultures”
Postdigital Print (Workshop XII)
Nov 17, 2021, 3 – 7 p.m., Online (Zoom)
Please find below the program for workshop XII on “Postdigital Print”. You can download the flyer here.
15:00
Begrüßung/Einführung
15:10-16:10
Florian Cramer (Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam):
“Postdigital and/versus Urgent Publishing”
16:10-17:10
Alessandro Ludovico (University of Southampton):
“The Interdependent Networks of Neural Magazine”
17:15-18:15
Sophie Seita (Boston University):
“Diving into the Wreck: On Magazines and Other Postdigital Stuff”
18:20-19:00
Artist Talk with Momma Tried (New Orleans)
For further information and access, please visit www.transnationalperiodicalcultures.net.
News, Workshops
The journal Early American Literature (UNC Press) has published a conference review of the Obama Institute’s 2018 conference “Transatlantic Conversations: New and Emerging Approaches to Early American Studies”.
You can access the review in full here:
Transatlantic Conversations: New and Emerging Approaches to Early American Studies by Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Society of Early Americanists (pp. 865-872)
Review by: HELEN KILBURN and MELISSA MORALES
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26780585
News, Workshops
Research Group “Transnational Periodical Cultures”
Beefcake: Male Bodies, Masculinity, and Community-Building in Pre-Stonewall Gay Magazines (Workshop X)
Jan 20, 2021, 4 – 6 p.m., Online (Zoom)
Please find below the invitation and Zoom link to access workshop X, “Beefcake: Male Bodies, Masculinity, and Community-Building in Pre-Stonewall Gay Magazines,” organized by Prof. Dr. Florian Freitag (University Duisburg-Essen).
Speakers will be:
Filippo Carlà-Uhink (U Potsdam), Florian Freitag (UDE) and David K. Johnson (U of South Florida), author of Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (2019).
We look forward to continuing our conversations on magazines with you.
Best wishes,
Jutta Ernst, Sabina Fazli, Oliver Scheiding
For further information, please visit
https://www.uni-due.de/ekfg/beefcake_workshop_2021.php
or
www.transnationalperiodicalcultures.net.
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Conferences, Events, News, Workshops
The research group on Transnational Periodical Cultures, led by Professor Ernst and Professor Scheiding, announces its conference “Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” which will take place on campus in Mainz in January 2020.
For the preliminary program and further details, please click here.
News, Workshops
Research Group “Transnational Periodical Cultures”
Independent Magazines (Workshop VII)
Oct 30, 2019, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Senatssaal NatFak (Room 07-232)
The research group “Transnational Periodical Cultures” (Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von Rimscha, Oliver Scheiding) holds a series of workshops.
You can find the program for the event on Oct 30, 2019 here.
If you are interested in attending one of the workshops or specific talks, please contact one of the organizers mentioned above.
For further information, please visit www.transnationalperiodicalcultures.net.