Pressure Points: featuring Jalal Toufic and Ghassan Hage
Arabic Perspectives on Tradition and the City – Lecture & Screenings
3pm Saturday
23 September
Max Webber Library
Civic Plaza, Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown
FREE event
Following the postponement of Pressure Points earlier this year due to the war in Lebanon, philosopher, film theorist and video artist Jalal Toufic will present the inaugural lecture on what will become the Pressure Points series. Titled The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster, Toufic’s lecture will be followed by Sydney University Professor of Anthropology Ghassan Hage as discussant
Pressure Points Program
3pm-5.30pm LECTURE by Jalal Toufic, followed by a response from Ghassan Hage.
6:00-8:30pm SCREENINGS of a series of short film & video works by Jalal Toufic.
Jalal Toufic
Jalal Toufic: is the author of Distracted (1991), (Vampires): An uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993), Oversensitivity (1996), Forthcoming (2000) and Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002). His videos and mixed media works ahve been presented in North America, Brazil, teh Middle East and Europe. Toufic has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie. He is currently head of the MA program in Film and Video Studies at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Holy Spirit University, Beirut. www.jalaltoufic.com.
“Toufic is one of the most active and ambitious figures in the Arab world who – book by book – has endeavoured to sculpt a critical, theoretical language of the Arab world.” The Daily Star, Lebanon.
Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is the author of Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003, 2006), What Would You Die For? (2004), White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy Today: Citizenship and Belonging (2002), with Rowanne Couch, The Future of Multiculturalism (1999). He has given numerous national and international keynote lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America, and he is the winner of the 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize and Award (Community Relations). He is currently Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
Pressure Points is presented by the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, in conjunction with Information & Cultural Exchange, with support from Arts NSW.
With thanks to Blacktown Arts Centre & Blacktown City Council.
Please RSVP for catering purposes by 20 September: Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (02) 9824 1121 or by email to the Writing and Society Research Group at UWS.
Media enquiries: Mireille Astore
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