Dr. Christa Salamandra
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Christa Salamandra is a  Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, who specializes in Arabic language fictional media. She received a Ph.D. from  the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, where she also served as Postdoctoral Research Associate. She served as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Lebanese American University in Beirut; a Visiting Fellow at the New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen, a visiting Scholar at The Center for Middle East Studies, Lund University; and a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Mass Communication, American University of Sharjah. She is the author of A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria (Indiana University Press 2014), and co-editor (with Leif Stenberg) of Syria from Reform to Revolt, Vol 2 (Syracuse University Press 2015). A 2009 American Council of Learned Societies/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship supported her current book project on the Syrian TV drama industry in the satellite era. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Arab Media and Society, Middle East Critique, and Cyberorient. 
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​New Texts Out Now: Christa Salamandra and Leif Stenberg, Syria from Reform to Revolt, vol. 2

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25475/new-texts-out-now_christa-salamandra-and-leif-sten
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Now in its 2nd Printing

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Reading, Pages Bookstore, Istanbul June 2016
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Christa Salamandra with Syrian actor Ahmad al-Ahmad on location of the drama serial Finjan al-Dam
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Lehman Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies Eighth Annual Conference
 
Artist as Witness: Cultural Production, Conflict, and
Human Rights in Syria

 
Co-sponsored by the Leonard Lief Library and the Department of Anthropology
Lehman College, Music Building, East Dining Room
 Thursday March 1, 2018, 10:00 am-6:30 pm
Free and Open to the Public
Organizers:
Marianna al-Tabbaa, M.A. Candidate, Department of Politics, New York University
 
Nour Halabi, Ph.D. Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Visiting Scholar, LCHRPS
 
Christa Salamandra, Interim Director of LCHRPS, Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
 
Through seven years of war, Syrian artists have played a crucial role as witnesses to the devastation of their country, and to the suffering and fortitude of its people. This one-day conference explores Syrian cultural producers’ varied responses to the ongoing conflict. Visual artists, photographers, playwrights, musicians, and filmmakers invoke, critique, and give voice to experiences of oppression, trauma, exile, and loss. Wartime works reflect an intensification of the outrage, longing, ambivalence, irony, and contradiction that have long imbued Syrian expressive culture. This conference showcases rarely seen works by Syrian artists, and places their creators in dialogue with a young generation of Syrian academics and activists.
 
9:45: Subhiyya ( Morning Coffee)
 
10:00 am                       Welcome
        
         Lehman College President José Luis Cruz
Christa Salamandra, Lehman College and the Graduate Center 
    
10:10-11:45 am                Panel One
 
Framing Conflict: Photography as Documentation and Engagement
Bassam Khabieh, Photographer, Reuters, in conversation with Nour Halabi, University of Pennsylvania and Lehman College
 
11:45 am-1:45 pm         Panel Two
 
To Be or Not To Be? Film as Intervention
Film Screening: Shakespeare in Zaatari. 2016 (35 minutes).
Maan Mouslli, Director, in conversation with Marianna al-Tabbaa, New York University
 
 
1:45-2:30 pm                 Lunch
 
 
2:30 pm-3:45 pm          Panel Three
 
Illuminating Absurdities: Theater as Critique
Play Reading: The Goats. Eden Zane, Actor, as Abu Firas; Noor Hamdi, Actor, as Abu al-Tayyib
Liwaa Yazji, Playwright, in conversation with Marianna al-Tabbaa, New York University
 
 
3:45-4:15 pm                 Panel Four
           

Filming Survival
Film Screening: Syria: Under a State of Fear (16 minutes) with Producer Aya Aljamili, American University
 
4:15-4:30 pm                   Coffee Istiqbal
 
4:30-6:30 pm                   Panel Five
 
Playing it Again: Music as Cultural Preservation and Transformation
Samer Ali, Violinist and Founder of the Syrian Music Preservation Initiative, in conversation with Aya Aljamili, American University
Musical performance, members of Takht al-Nagham Ensemble
 
Exhibit: Unpacked: Refugee Baggage, the work of Mohamed Hafez, Visual Artist
 
For more information:
www.artistaswitnesssyria.net
https://www.facebook.com/events/260306844507032/permalink/261305677740482/
#ArtAct18
 
Founded in 2011, the Lehman College Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies builds on Lehman College’s unique history: the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights began at Lehman College when the United Nations met at the College. Lehman students, often immigrants and the first in their families to access higher education, engender a broad understanding of human rights. The Center unites student and faculty engagement on local and global rights issues in New York and the greater world community. The Center emphasizes intrinsic linkages between human rights and peace. Not merely the absence of war or conflict, human security necessitates community building, safety, promotion of tolerance, environmental sustainability, expanded life chances, freedom of expression, movement and association, and equal access to resources across gender, ethnic, class, national, and other socio-economic divides.
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