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This year’s Stephan Weiss Lecture Series, presented by the School of Design Strategies, centers Raoul Peck’s four-part HBO documentary series, Exterminate All the Brutes.Â
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Through screenings and discussions, we collectively challenge dominant worldviews around colonialism, capitalism, business practices, and material inequities, asking how students, educators, designers, and business leaders can intervene in the stories, myths, frames, and systems that inform our practices and pedagogies. Moving beyond the rhetorical, the series challenges participants to identify concrete steps to transform and transition their own practices from the oppressive and exploitative to the equitable and just.
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Over the course of four weeks, we invite the public to engage with the film and participate in curated activities in viewing pods and to attend a variety of discussions and talks to consider and explore how these themes translate in their own practices.This year’s talks explore indigenous knowledge, interdependence, decolonizing futures and other approaches in challenging racist systems and institutional power. Please join us for the viewings and for special guests: Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Alnoor Ladha, Joy James, Ryan Rising, Donnay Edmund, Ominira Mars, Abrima Erwiyeh, Kwamou Eva Feukeu and Kewulay Kamara.Â
Screening Exterminate All the Brutes
Please note the optional corresponding screenings will take place before each discussion and are open to the public. Participants from The New School will be able to screen the documentary asynchronously at anytime during the Weiss Lecture series from February 25- March 24th via the links that will be sent to registered participants.
CONTENT WARNING
The films and discussions presented here include topics that some may find offensive, disturbing and/or traumatizing. We recognize the power of these narratives, images and ideas to activate a range of emotions and responses. Throughout the programming, we aim to create and foster space for diverse and respectful dialogue, and we invite you to participate in a robust, honest, and thoughtful exchange of ideas. We also welcome your honest feedback at any time during or after the programs. This is part of a larger process of collective unlearning to which we are committed.Â
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25Â
Screening Part 1 (Optional): The Disturbing Confidence of Ignorance - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Languages, Indigeneity and the Earth
Panel Discussion: Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Alnoor Ladha and Donnay Edmund - 12:00 - 1:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 3
Screening Part 2 (Optional): Who the F*** is Columbus -
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Challenging Institutional Power
Panel Discussion: Dr. Joy James, and Ominira Mars - 7:00 - 8:30 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
Screening Part 3 ( Optional): Killing at a Distance or … How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing  - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Unlearning Imperialism, Decolonizing Futures
 Interactive Panel Discussion: Kewulay Kamara - 12:00 - 1:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
Screening Part 4 (Optional):Â The Bright Colors of Fascism -
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Questioning Systems, Interdependence and Building Relationships
Panel Discussion: Abrima Erwiah and Ryan Rising - 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota. Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He is a guest faculty member at Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry focusing on the cosmology, diversity and international perspectives of reality.
Alnoor Ladha's work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules, a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change.Â
Abrima Erwiah has worked for some of the most respected brands in the world, including Bottega Veneta, Hermes, and John Lobb, among others. She has been an advisor to the United Nations International Trade Center, served as a mentor under the Kering Foundation for Women’s Dignity & Rights, and taught in the School of Fashion at Parsons.
Dreamer. Daughter. Dancer. Lover. Movement fairy. Earth adoring. Liberation believing. Donnay Edmund (Plantmama Radical) is a Brooklyn born Black Femme, raised by a collective of single, working class mothers. Donnay is an educator working towards collective liberation. She believes in transformative justice and the power of imagination to create new worlds full of justice and love
Joy James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College.
James is author of: Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture.
Ominira (omi) mars is a black, queer anarcho-abolitionist, doula, writer, and disruptor. Descendants of southern poor/lower class disruptors; they work exclusively from a black southern/rural and anti-carceral epistemology and center communities affected by the war on drugs and the prison industrial complex.Â
 Kwamou Eva Feukeu is a Project Officer acting as the Africa coordinator for Futures Literacy at UNESCO. She is an experienced facilitator and lab designer involved in labs run mainly in Africa and Europe since 2014, and a full member of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) and Plurality U+ network.Â
Committed to amplifying diverse voices, The New School offers more than a thousand public programs and events each year, providing fresh perspectives and unique learning opportunities. These lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and performances feature prominent and emerging artists, activists, and thought leaders.
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