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Fall series:
Natalie Melas and Tao DuFour
Friday, September 27th, 3:30-5
Goldwin Smith 258
Natalie Melas and Tao DuFour discuss their film Possible Landscapes (directed by Kannan Arunasalam, produced and conceptualized by Tao DuFour and Natalie Melas). Possible Landscapes is the outcome of the team research project, “Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experience in Trinidad and Tobago." The aim was to develop methods of field research and representation in documentary film that foreground intergenerational lived experience of landscapes and environments in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and to query the formation of environmental and climate imaginaries.
https://cinema.cornell.edu/possible-landscapes-debut-screening
Followed by a reception in GS 258.
Please Note: Cornell Cinema is showing Possible Landscapes at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25th.
Graduate Comp Lit Theory Colloquium
Professor Timothy Morton
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS DEFAULT
Friday, November 15th, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
G64 Goldwin Smith Hall
Followed by a Happy Hour at the Regent Lounge, Statler at 5:15 p.m.
Saturday, November 16th, 9:00-11:00 a.m. - Graduate Student & Faculty Workshop
Professor Morton will host a workshop about the philosophical grounds of caring for non-humans and the concepts of solidarity, care, sympathy, and empath, paring sections of his two books: Humankind: Solidarity with non-Human People & Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology.