Birth and Rebirth of a Nation
Screening and Colloquium
Saturday, September 26, 2009
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, New York City
Admission: Free, reservations recommended at [email protected], or 212.229.2436.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, New York City
Admission: Free, reservations recommended at [email protected], or 212.229.2436.
The speakers hail from different areas of expertise including history, film, music, journalism, and photography. Presenting analyses of some of the most recent scholarship on slavery and racism, particularly as manifested during the conception, production and distribution of The Birth of a Nation, they examine the film’s legacy and reverberations today.
PROGRAM
Screening I – 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, 1915, silent film, 180 minutes
Original sound score and live accompaniment by Michael Stein, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
Colloquium – 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Speakers include
Douglas A. Blackmon, Author and Atlanta Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
David W. Blight, Author and Professor of American History, Yale University
Michelle Materre, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Film, The New School for General Studies
Miriam J. Petty, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Rutgers University-Newark
Michele Wallace, Professor of English, City University of New York
Introduced by Bill Gaskins, Photographer, essayist and Professor of Photography and Art History, Parsons The New School for Design
Roundtable – 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
All participants, moderated by Margo Jefferson
Associate Professor of Writing, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Screening II – 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
DJ Spooky, Rebirth of a Nation, 2008, color, sound, 90 minutes
Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid)
Presented on occasion of the Vera List Center’s 2009/2010 program theme “Speculating on Change,” with support of The Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
For more information, visit http://www.newschool.edu/vlc