HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER
and THE LAWRENCE HERBERT SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION in collaboration with
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CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT and the HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART present
DAHOMEY- A Film Screening and Discussion
Presented in commemoration of Global Justice Day.
Join Professor Aashish Kumar, Radio, Television, Film, and Alexandra Giordano, Director of the Hofstra University Museum of Art, for a film screening of DAHOMEY (68 mins Winner, Golden Bear, 2024 Berlinale). From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin. Using multiple perspectives Diop questions how these artifacts should be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence. A panel discussion and Q&A will follow the film screening with Sally Charnow, professor of Modern European and Postcolonial History; Fennik Lindstedt, BA Film Production and Studies, Herbert School of Communication, and Bradley Phillipi, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for Public Archaeology and at Hofstra University. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 4:20-6:30 p.m. Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center, North Campus