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Join us in-person for a film screening to be followed by a conversation with the co-creator, Matt Peterson.
Friday, January 26, 2024
5:00 - 7:00pm ET
Kellen Auditorium
66 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
The Native and the Refugee is a long-term multimedia project by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny profiling the terrains of the Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp, “spaces of exception” that have become essential in the struggle for decolonization and indigenous autonomy. While the existence of such spaces is the result of settler-colonialism (albeit at different stages) and are repositories for its ongoing violence, they also open up new possibilities for resistance and for conceptualizing existence outside the boundaries of the nation-state.
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.
Matt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine, an experimental space in New York City. He directed the documentary features Scenes from a Revolt Sustained (2015) and Spaces of Exception (2019), and co-edited the books In the Name of the People (2018), The Mohawk Warrior Society (2022), and The Reservoir (2022). Since 2014 he has collaborated with Malek Rasamny on “The Native and the Refugee”, a multi-media documentary project on American Indian reservations and Palestinian refugee camps.
Anna Reumert is a sociocultural anthropologist and a gender studies scholar. She researches and writes about labor migration, generational political imagination and mobilization, racial capitalism and gender-based violence in the Middle East and Sudan. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University.
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