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Film Screening and Philosophical Discussion
Alwaleed Hall - Screening: P013 / Discussion: P014
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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The film follows a Senegalese woman who is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves to the south of France. In her new country, she is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her employers. [From Mubi]
Speakers
Rodrigo Brum
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of the Arts
Rodrigo Brum is an educator, filmmaker, and film producer based in Cairo. He holds an MA in philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and an MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Prior to joining AUC, Brum was a Lecturer in the Media Design Department at the German University in Cairo, where he taught courses on Film, Media Installation, and Speculative Design. He is currently working on his first feature documentary, Like Someone Who Hears a Very Sad Song (in development), produced in the Cape Verdean archipelago, where he lived for almost a year. In Cairo, he co-founded A Kiss in the Desert, a production company focused on the work of emerging Egyptian filmmakers.
Euan Metz
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Euan Metz received his doctorate from the University of Reading in 2018 and has since held teaching appointments at the University of Reading, the Workers’ Education Association, the University of Bristol, and the Open University. Metz’s research interests focus on the nature of normativity. He is currently working on a research project exploring the relations between deontic properties and normative reasons.
Addison Ellis, AUC
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Addison Ellis received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Before coming to The American University in Cairo (AUC), he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City, and a lecturer at the University of Illinois. His research is focused on Kant and post-Kantian European Philosophy (especially Heidegger). Within these areas, Ellis places particular emphasis on the study of self-consciousness and what Kant calls its ‘spontaneity.’ He is interested in how these themes figure not only in Kant’s theoretical philosophy, but also in his practical and religious thought and, more broadly, how these Kantian ideas are taken up, transformed, or rejected by the post-Kantian tradition.