CPCA Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) Presents:
Dr. Laliv Melamed, Film and Media Scholar
(Author, Sovereign Intimacy & Assistant Professor of Film and Media at the University of Groningen)
HOMECOMING
Lecture and conversation with Temple FMA MFA alum Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Director, The Viewing Booth, The Law in These Parts) moderated by Dr. Nora Alter, Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple.
March 20, 5:00 pm
@ Temple Performing Arts Center
1837 N Broad St, Philadelphia
More about the lecture from Dr. Melamed:
Facilitated by the affordances of DV technologies in the 1990s’ private market, families of fallen Israeli soldiers started to create their own commemorations of their private kin – no longer a national hero, but an intimate loved one. In this talk I will define what I term sovereign intimacy, a media complex that displaces state violence into the home, where it is domesticated and disavowed. The talk will explore the relations between the private media form, the production of subjectivity and the intricated, public-private sites of memory and statecraft in the context of the ongoing settler colonial violence in Israel-Palestine.
Laliv Melamed is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of Groningen. She writes on governance, sentimental politics and the public sphere in nonfiction media and documentary. Melamed is the author of Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence (University of California Press, 2023).
Free and open to the public
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