Choi Auditorium

Omar Shakir currently serves as the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, where he investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. He has authored several major reports, including a 2021 report comprehensively documenting how Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity, of apartheid, and persecution against millions of Palestinians. As a result of his advocacy, the Israeli government deported Omar in November 2019.

The Media Arts and Culture Department and the Womxn of Cinema and Television Club present a screening of the new time travel drama Ingress

Set in East Los Angeles, this coming-of-age story centers on the struggles of Anna (Academy Award nominee America Ferrera) and her domineering family. This screening will be moderated by special guests Professor Viviana McManus and film critic Claudia Puig.

With generous support from Ronald R. and Susan C. Hahn '66 '65

Set in L.A.’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, Samuel Fuller’s L.A. film noir starring James Shigeta is a rare example of progressive-minded depictions of racial relations and portrayals of an Asian-American lead character during this period of film history. This event is moderated by Professor Vivian Lin and will also feature two short films from Visual Communications on life and culture in Little Tokyo.

With generous support from Ronald R. and Susan C. Hahn '66 '65

 

 

The screening will be followed by discussion centering on transitioning from theater to film and process of producing a successful and acclaimed low-budget feature.

Delicate Translation, tracing one’s home and experiences of transnational displacement, practices a language that resists articulation in the standard Western vernacular. Rooted within the displaced body itself, each artist manifests a personal language, searching and longing through digital vessels, screen and “windows”, and metatextual recalling to a non-place we know as home. In this screening, the memory images unravel, resisting dominant history and conventional narrative form.

Doors at 6:30PM, screenings will start at 7:00PM.

Students, staff and faculty are invited to join a conversation with Salam Al-Marayati and Daniel Sokatch.

Students are invited to attend an evening with John Branca ’72 (Music Industry Icon, Entertainment Lawyer, Partner and Head of the Music Department at Ziffren Brittenham, LLP) and Jim Sebenius (Harvard Business School)

3:00   Patrick Fennessey "No One Likes Us And We Don’t Care: Deconstructing the Mythos of Philadelphia Eagles Fandom, 1960-1971"

3:20   Jake Landsberg "B’nai B'rith Messenger: The Story of Jewish Internationalism in Los Angeles, 1920-1939"

3:40   Arin Littman "Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews? Jewish Identity on Trial in Cold War America, 1947-1953"

4:00   Lila O'Leary "Saving the World Through Music: Evangelical Missionary Musicians and US Empire, 1975-1995"