The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to announce the 2024 Fall Events Series, a range of engaging hosted events featuring film screenings, co-sponsored conferences and talks; conversations from Cornell faculty members and guest speakers about recent work, and lectures about ongoing critical research and practice.
In the early fall, ICM is co-hosting and co-organizing a debut screening of Possible Landscapes, a feature-length film about environmental experience in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, produced by ICM board member Natalie Melas and collaborators Tao Dufour and Kannan Arunasalam. The Possible Landscapes Research Project is also pleased to host Trinidadian guests for talks, Mario Lewis and Deborah Villarroel-Lamb, local consultants for the film whose work (in Art and Coastal Engineering, respectively) intersects with the themes of the film.
Events and dates listed below:
Tuesday, September 24: Co-sponsored conversation with History of Art & Visual Culture SAGAL FARAH (Curator, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin) "Where We Leave Things" | Literatures in English Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258, 12:00 p.m.—1:15 p.m.
Wednesday, September 25: Co-sponsored screening and talks Possible Landscapes Debut Screening | Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, 7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored with The Society for the Humanities, Africana Studies and Research Center, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Literatures in English, Environment and Sustainability, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Department of Romance Studies
--DEBORAH VILLARROEL-LAMB (Lecturer in Coastal Engineering and Management, The University of the West Indies) "Towards Caribbean Coastal Resilience: Challenges & Opportunities" Tuesday, September 24 | Environmental Fluid Mechanics Teaching Lab B52 Hollister Hall, 527 College Avenue
--MARIO LEWIS (Artist practicing in Trinidad and Berlin) "Forest Notebooks: The Interaction Between Art, Community, and Ecology" Wednesday, September 25 | Toboggan Lodge, 38 Forest Home Drive, 4:45 p.m. —6:15 p.m.
Thursday, September 27—Friday, September 28 Co-sponsored with History of Art & Visual Culture ARTMargins Conference
Thursday, October 3: ICM Screening and Conversation Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom (2024) with filmmaker MANTHIA DIAWARA (New York University) and SALAH M. HASSAN (Cornell University, The Africa Institute) | Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, 4:45 p.m.—7 p.m. Co-sponsored by Africana Studies & Research Center, History of Art & Visual Studies, Comparative Literature
Thursday, October 10: Co-sponsored lecture with Einaudi Center and other affiliates NATHAN THRALL (2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Nonfiction)
Monday, October 21: ICM New Conversation: SEEMA GOLESTANEH (Cornell University) A.D. White House, Guerlac Room, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Monday, November 4 (note date change) ICM Lecture: SAMERA ESMEIR (University of California, Berkeley) "Territorial Imperatives, Revolutionary Leanings: Thinking with the Palestinian Revolution" | A.D. White House, Guerlac Room, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, November 20: ICM New Conversation TEJASVI NAGARAJA (Cornell University) A.D. White House, Guerlac Room, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
