Thursday 27 March: 'Edward Said is Still With Us' - Jean Mohr talk at Goldsmiths College

[Soas Palestine Society]

Thurs. 27 March: Jean Mohr reflects on his collaboration with Edward Said. Goldsmiths, London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/calendar/?id=7432 View this email in your browser "EDWARD IS STILL WITH US": Jean Mohr reflects on his collaboration with Edward Said Guest of honour: Mariam Said Annual Methods Lab Lecture, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths Thursday 27 March 5-7pm + drinks to follow SmallCinema, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, SE14 6NW   free event   In this public conversation, photographer Jean Mohr will reflect on his collaboration with Edward Said on After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (1986). The Photographer Photographed, 1979, Jerusalem (Jean Mohr) TALK: In 1983 Jean Mohr was commissioned by the UN to take photos of some of the key sites in which Palestinians lived their lives. Because the UN allowed only minimal text (the names of places) to accompany the photographs, Said and Mohr decided to work together on an 'interplay', as Said put it, of Said's personal account of Palestinian suffering and exile and Mohr's photographs – 'an unconventional, hybrid, and fragmentary [form] of expression' - which they called After the Last Sky (1986). Jean Mohr will reflect on this and his other collaborations in this Annual Methods Lab Lecture, presented by the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College. Followed by a drinks reception and exhibition view.  EXHIBITION: The Space and Gaze exhibition at Goldsmiths (September 2013 – July 2014) brings Jean Mohr's images and Edward Said's text from this seminal book together for the first time. Working against the grain of speeded up short durations in gallery spaces and the cultural sector more widely, we have chosen to live and converse with the images and texts for the longer duration of an academic year. Against the grain of the corporatization of the academy, the exhibition claims the space for an alternative writing on the walls of the university....    Visit the exhibition in the Kingsway Corridor, Goldsmith's College until July. Monday-Saturday, 8am - 9pm; Sunday, 9:30 - 6pm. Free.    read more... Share Tweet Forward to Friend COMING SOON: Forthcoming events from the Palestine Film Foundation: April 13, Riverside Studios, London: Flying Paper, Nitin Sawhney & Roger Hill, 2013 + A Space Exodus, Larissa Sansour, 2008 This high-flying double bill sees Gaza's children take aim at a kite-flying world record, and Palestine's first cosmonaut set off through the stars... Details, tickets Flying Paper trailer. June 13, Barbican Centre, London: Lena Chamamyan concert Celebrated Syrian-Armenian singer-songwriter Lena Chamamyan brings her distinct fusion of Jazz, Arabic, and Armenian styles to London. Booking fast - Barbican website for prices. More   May 3, Riverside Studios, London: Kafr Kassem, Bourhan Alaouie, 1974 Save the date. A rare chance to see Lebanese director Bourhan Alaouie's classic dramatisation of the events surrounding the 1956 massacre of Kafr Kassem. With new and improved English subtitles. Booking soon... Copyright © 2014 Palestine Film Foundation, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email this email because we think you are interested in the activities of the Palestine Film Foundation. If this is a mistake of you would prefer not to receive further emails from the Palestine Film Foundation, please unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Palestine Film Foundation 27 Old Gloucester St London, England WC1N3XX United Kingdom