The award-winning documentary Out of State (79 min.) explores the intersections between the US imperial project and prison industrial complex, through the stories of David and Hale—two Native Hawaiian men incarcerated in a private prison in the Arizona desert, thousands of miles away from home. “The themes that this powerful, poetic film explores are specifically grounded in a uniquely Hawaiian experience—exploring the struggles of contemporary Hawaiians through an intimate, honest, and empathetic lens,” the Hawai‘i International Film Festival Jury proclaimed.
>>
Fellow María González Pendás presents "Holy Modern: East, West, and the Constructs of Empire in Fascist Spain:"
Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 6:30PM
Room 832, 8th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
>>
Society of Fellows Hidetaka Hirota has a featured Op-Ed on citizenship in the Washington Post.
>>
Emily Ogden's Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (Chicago, 2018) is reviewed at Reading Religion and Religion Bulletin.
>>
Emily Bloom, Associate Director of The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, has won the 2017 MSA Prize for a First Book for her recently published "The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968" (Oxford University Press, 2016). The Modernist Studies Association prize was award to Bloom in Amsterdam last week.
>>
_13_690_200_90_s_c1.JPG)