Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy presents:
“The New RDS Movement (Retractions and Disavowals in Scholarship): One Academic’s Symbolic Pushback Against the BDS Movement”
Dahn Hiuni
Artist, Playwright, Independent Scholar
Monday, March 24 2014
5:30 PM
ISGAP Offices
165 East 56th Street
(between Lexington and 3rd Avenue)
New York, NY 10022
The event is free and open to the public. All are encouraged to attend.
Attendees must RSVP by contacting the ISGAP Coordinator, Jenny Pigott.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (212) 230-1840.
ISGAP looks forward to your attendance at this special event.
About the Speaker
Dahn Hiuni is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist. His work spans the fields of theater, performance art, visual art, film and video, and graphic design. Mr. Hiuni’s work has been presented at such New York venues as P.S. 122, Franklin Furnace, Mixed Greens, Artists Space, Metro Pictures, Cooper Union and Thread Waxing Space. Other exhibition and performance venues include the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Lancaster Museum of Art. His solo performance Twentieth Century Art is part of the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Mr. Hiuni’s play, Murmurs and Incantations, recently had its New York premiere to sold out audiences and with a special feature in Playbill.com. Mr. Hiuni has taught at Pratt Institute, FIT, Hofstra, Bucknell and Kutztown Universities, and at the National Theatre School of Canada. He holds an MFA in art and an interdisciplinary PhD in performance studies–both from Penn State. He is adjunct professor of art at School of Visual Arts, Empire State College and Hudson County Community College, and a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dahn Hiuni is son of the late Amatsia Hiuni, Cannes Festival award-winning film producer and pioneer of the Israeli film industry.