Film Screening, "ASMARINA" with director Medhin Paolos and Dr. Angela Davis,

Date: 

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museum. Menschel Hall, Lower Level

Film Screening, Asmarina with director Medhin Paolos,

a film-screening of Asmarina Museum of Art and will be co-sponsored by HAM, ART, as well as by the Warren Center.

 

Film Screening of “Asmarina”

Introduction by Dr. Angela Davis, UC Santa Cruz

Followed by conversation with film directorMedhin Paolos and Dr. Angela Davis

(Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway).  Doors will open at 5:30pm.  This program is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.

Free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at noon on Thursday, March 22, at the Harvard Box Office, located in Farkas Hall, 12 Holyoke St, Cambridge.

Tickets must be picked up in person and are not available online or by phone.

Limit of two tickets per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.

 

This is event is co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Harvard Art Museums, The Inequality Initiative (Social Science Dean’s Office), the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and the Schlesinger Library. Support for this program is provided by the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund.

 

“Asmarina” is a documentary film about the habesha (Eritrean/Ethiopian community) of Milan, Italy that engages in historical interpellation of the relationship between colonialism and diaspora. Setting off from testimonies of habesha first and second generation immigrants in Milan, archival research, photography and music, the film gathers brings to light Italian postcolonial heritage and its effects on present-day place of Italians of color, immigrants, and refugees. Asmarina has debuted in the Sole Luna Film Festival – Treviso, at the Museum Suriname in Amsterdam, at Loving Festival in New Orleans, at the Etnofilmfest – Monselice among many others. It is the recipient of the Borderscapes Film Award (2016) and the Festival Africano Award in Milano (2015).


 

Medhin Paoloshttps://medhinpaolos.com

Medhin Paolos’s works is located at the intersections art, social justice and digital humanties research. Paolos is the co-founder of the Milano chapter of Rete G2 (Second Generation Network), a national organization that promotes the human and civic rights of children of immigrant in Italy. She is research scholar at Harvard University (2018) and the co-director of the transntational digital humanities project Mind the Gap.

 

Dr. Angela Davis is distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prof. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years, Prof. Davis has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of nine books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race, and Class; Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; Are Prisons Obsolete? In 1994, she received the distinguished honor of an appointment to the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies.

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