Reid Davenport’s “I Didn’t See You There” was screened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on November 2, 2022. Davenport shot the film entirely from his own perspective and mostly from his wheelchair.
Niklaus Largier discusses "figures" from the medieval contemplative tradition which resist interpretation and instead constitute a mainly sensory experience — qualities which lend them tremendous power over human imagination.
Madiano Marcheti’s film Madalena (2021) is a meditation on violence against trans people in rural Brazil, but it also explores the deep and lasting impacts of ecological violence.
Discussing his newest book Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History, Townsend Center Director Timothy Hampton suggests cheerfulness is connected to a sense of community which has been disrupted by social media and the Covid-19 pandemic.
For some indigenous communities in the US, the question of artistic ownership has been a fraught one, especially when it comes to ancestral works. Artist Wendy Red Star engaged with the idea of archives, historical narratives, and creative expression of Native Americans in a postcolonial world during her talk at the Arts Research Center.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton), and Joel Sati (PhD candidate, Jurisprudence & Social Policy) explore the world of rigidly inflicted borders, papers, and documentation during their conversation on “Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity” at the Center for Race and Gender.