CPCA Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) Presents
Dr. Laliv Melamed Film and Media Scholar (Author, Sovereign Intimacy)
ON GIRLFRIENDS AND OTHER SOVEREIGNTIES
Public Lecture + Conversation with Chris Cagle, Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple

Monday, October 9, 5:30 pm
Temple Performing Arts Center 1837 N Broad St 
Free and open to the public
(not able to make the event in person? RSVP Here to attend on zoom)

How do we study an overlooked archive of more than two decades of domestic media production? Can we look at these intimate utterances in the unfolding of settler colonial violence? Are they documents? Are they a labor of love? 

Laliv encountered the girlfriend while working on an obscure short television documentary done by a premature film student whose boyfriend, an Israeli soldier, died in Lebanon in 1992. The video, a raw mediation of love and loss, had a haunting presence. The girlfriend, a figure who is real and metaphorical at once, and her media of private loss, are both a challenge to and affirmation of sovereign power.

DR. LALIV MELAMED is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Groningen. She writes on sentimental politics, governance and media and specializes 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). 

Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) is a holistic research center and forum for creative and scholarly research across the arts that includes cutting-edge colloquia, exploratory seminars, lecture demonstrations, launches of research publications and creative works, reading groups, faculty talks, and stand-alone conferences initiated by the faculty of the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts.