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HOUSE, HOME, HOMELAND
A Media Studies Symposium on Exile
Today, millions of people do not or cannot live in their own
homeland, many others are homeless within their native lands, and many of
those who own houses are so afraid of what lies beyond that they'e turned
them into fortresses.
Global changes in politics, technology and social structures have
created a so-called postmodern age characterized by massive shifts in
capital, power and media, and in the displacement of entire communities.
It now appears that one's relation to "homeland" is based less on actual
matrial access and more on the symbolic imaginings and longings that
produce and reproduce it. Such mediations can generate intense utopian
and dystopian emotions and sometimes violence -- particularly when
associated with territorial struggles.
House, Home Homeland, a multidisciplinary, international
symposium on exile organized by Professor Hamid Naficy, brings some
twenty scholars to Rice University on the weekend of October 27-29, 1995
to address questions of how we design, inhabit and imagine our homes and
identities. The keynote address will be delivered as a Presidential
Lecture by Professor Homi K. Bhabha. Three related art exhibits, a
semester-long film series and film seminar and a library exhibit are also
scheduled.
The symposium (scholar's forum and art shows) is free to the public. For
further information, contact Hamid Naficy or Christine Gardner at
713/527-4882 or the Symposium home page at the following URL:
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/depts/arts/Media/Events/HHH/
SCHOLARS' FORUM
All presentations held at Rice Media Center unless otherwose
indicated.
FRIDAY REPRESENTING IDENTITIES
October 27 Ella Shohat, CUNY Staten Island
2:00-5:00 PM Crossing the Atlantic to Atlantic Avenue:
The Middle East in the Americas
Richard Wolin, Rice University
Reworking the Past Through Film in
Germany
Vivian Sobchack, UCLA
Is Any Body Home?: A Phenomenological
Meditation on Objectivity and Eviction
8:00-9:00 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS/PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE
(Rice Memorial Center)
Homi K. Bhabba, University of Chicago
The Ethics and Politics of Exile
SATURDAY REPRESENTING WOMEN
October 28 Susan Lurie, Rice University
8:15-10:30 AM Homes Away From Home:
Patriarchal Colonialism
and Feminist Space in The Piano
Rosa Linda Fregoso, UC Davis
Gender and Sexuality on the Borderland
Margret Eifler, Rice University
Female Visualizations of Not-Belonging
10:15-12:00 PM WORLDED BY MUSIC
Iain Chambers, Inst. Universitario
Orientale, Naples, Italy
Memory, Music and Imaginary Homelands
George Lipsitz, UC San Diego
'Home is Where the Hatred Is':
Displaced Cultures & Diasporic Music
2:00-3:30 PM HOUSE ON THE RANGE
Brian Huberman, Rice University
Home on the Range...
Robert Segre, Inst. Politcnico
Jos Echeverria , Havana, Cuba
Memory and Mirrors of Homeland in
Latin American Cities
3:45-5:00 PM MIGRATING ART
Thomas McEvilley, Rice University
Migrant Art
Diane Dillon, Rice University
There's No Place Like Home
SUNDAY SYNAESTHESIA OF HOME AND IDENTITY
October 29 Teshome Gabriel, UCLA
9:00-10:30 AM Residues and Traces of a Journey
Margaret Morse, UC Santa Cruse
Home: Smell, Taste, Posture, Gleam
10:45-1:00 PM HOME IN THE WORLD
George Marcus, Rice University
Home as Memory Palace
Hamid Naficy, Rice University
Phoning Home
David Morley, Goldsmith, England
The Cartography of Postmodernity:
Mobile Homes and Electric Fences
CINEMA OF DISPLACEMENT
Programmed in conjunction with the symposium, Cinema of Displacement
titles will screen at the Rice Media Center each Thursday at 7:30 pm.
Films noted by an asterick will be presented over the course of the
symposium weekend, Thursday through Sunday nights. Admission is $4.50.
For exact dates, see Rice Cinema schedule.
The Exiles Richard Kaplan
Paris, Texas Wim Wenders
Journey of Hope Xavier Koller
Ivan & Abraham Y. Zauberman
Stalker A. Tarkovsky
Nostalgia A. Tarkovsky
Beautiful Laundrette Stephen Frears
Sammy & Rosie Get Laid Stephen Frears
It Was a Wonderful Life Michelle Ohayon
House (Bait) Amos Gitai
Passion of Remembrance Isaac ulien
Paris is Burning J. Livingston
Sunless (Sans Soleil) Chris Marker
40 Meters Square Germany Tevik Basur
Independence Day Lori Fontanes
Home Economics Jenny Cool
Farewell to a False Paradise Tevik Basur
CULTURAL BAGGAGE
These photography-based artworks represent responses
to issues of exile, identity and environment. Curated by
Bill Thomas Opening: Oct. 26, 6-8 P p.m. Rice Media
Center Gallery.
Eduardo Aparicio Miami
Fernando Castro Houston
Monica Chau Los Angeles, UC Irvine
Marlon Fuentes Orange, California
Rachel Hecker Houston, Univ. of Houston
Kyle Henry Austin, Univ. of Texas
Hei Han Khian Los Angeles, UCLA
Fletcher Mackey Houston, TSU
Silvia Malagrino Chicago, Univ, of Illinois
Daniel Martinez Los Angeles, UC Irvine
James Nakagawa Houston, Univ. of Houston
Shirin Neshat New York
Bonnie Smith Newman Houston
Virginia Beth Shields Tampa, Florida
Gayle Tanaka San Francisco
Bill Thomas Houston, Rice University
Prince Thomas Houston/ Univ. of Houston
Deborah Willis Washington, Smithsonian
Cheryl Younger New York, NYU
TURTLE BOAT HEAD
Y. David Chung 's multimedia installation examines cultural contrasts
felt by individuals in exile. Wall-sized murals fuse images of Korea's
past and present with a young immigrant's vision of his heritage and
current home: a crumbling urban environment. A video inside a structure
representing an inner-city convenience store provides a
stream-of-consciousness glimpse into the inner world of a Korean emigre
storekeeper. Opening : Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m., Rice University Art Gallery.
Curated by Kimberly Davenport.
SHAME MAN AND EL MEXICAN'T MEET
THE CYBERVATO
Artists Guillermo Gomez-Pea, James Luna, and Roberto Sifuentes and their
Diverse Works installation are interactively linked via the Internet with
Rice University Art Gallery and MECA (Multicultural Education and
Counseling through the Arts). As CyberVato -- Information Superhighway
Bandito -- Sifuentes will engage viewers at all sites in topics ranging
from Chiapas to Affirmative Action to NAFTA. November 11- December 9,
1995. Rice
University Art Gallery.
CINEMA OF DISPLACEMENT SEMINAR
Professor Naficy offers a Rice seminar during the fall entitled Culture,
Media, Society: Exile Cinema. The course examines film and video as
means by which marginalized members speak to the dominant society and to
others across national, cultural, and other boundaries.
LIBRARY EXHIBIT
An exhibition of books, new acquisitions, and related materials on home
and homelessness has been curated by Rice University Art and
Architecture Librarian, Jet Prendeville, for the Fondren Library Rotunda
BOOK SALE
Books authored by symposium participants will be one sale at the Media
Center on Friday, Oct. 27 and the University Bookstore.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Rice Media Center is located at Entrance # 8, University Boulevard at
Stockton. For information on events, call 713-427-4882.
Lectures and art exhibits are free of charge. Admission to all films is
$4.50.
The Symposium on Exile has been generously by the office of Rice
University President Malcolm Gillis, Dean of Humanities Allen
Matusow,the Rice Center for the Study of Cultures, and theDepartment of
Art & Art History. The Keynote Address is co-sponsored by the American
Film Institute.
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