Event Calendar
November 2009
CLS Senior Colloquium
Please join us for a colloquium in which our graduating CLS majors will present their senior paper topics. The purpose of this colloquium is not only for seniors to experience giving a paper beyond the classroom setting--many for the first time--but also for them to receive valuable comments and questions from graduate students and advisors in attendance.
The format of the evening will be 2 panels followed by discussion and interspersed with poetry/text readings by our 3 translators, Jocelyn, Aleks, and Rosanne:
Panel 1: Textuality in Beckett, Emerson, and Kafka
Kati Skelton, "TBA"
Kyle Tidd, "TBA"
Sasha von Oldershausen, "Passage to Persia: Transcendentalist Engagement with Persian Poetry"
Poetry Reading
Jocelyn Cohen, French Surrealist Poetry (Paalen)
Aleks Sierakowski, Contemporary Polish Poetry (Julie Szychowiak)
Panel 2: Film Adaptation and Interpretation
David T. Fike-Rosales, "Missed Adaptation: Memoir and Autobiography as Genres of Literature, not Film"
Ned Sonnenschein, "Two or Three Things I Know about the Culture of the Image"
Poetry Reading (time permitting)
Rosanne Sangiacomo, Contemporary Italian Prose (Pietta Mattei)
Monday, November 23, 2009
5:00p.m - 6:30p.m (Pizza, salad and soft drinks will be provided)
French Seminar Room, Kresge 2-420
CLS World Cinema Series
Ain Shams by Ibrahim Elt Batout
Ain Shams is a film about a girl called Shams whose parents discover she has cancer. But Ain Shams is also the name of a poor neighborhood in Cairo where the film is in large part set. Childhood cancer, in El Batout’s hand, turns out to be not only a heart wrenching experience but also a politically charged topic. The film has just won the best film prize at the San Francisco Arab Film Festival.
Professor Brian Edwards (English and CLS) will briefly introduce the film by discussing the filmmaker's previous work as a war documentarian, and the film's strange history in its struggle with the Egyptian censor before finally reaching the screen.
The film is 90 minutes long and space is limited.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
7:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.
The Video Theatre, Second Floor South Tower, University Library
October 2009
CLS Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
Peter Fenves on “Workforce without Possessions”: Kafka, “Social Justice,” and the Word Religion"
Joel Morris on "The Noble and Ignoble Misfortune of Jackals: Kafka and Brod on Paganism, Christianity and Judaism, 1916-1918."
Thursday, October 22, 2009
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Lunch will be served)
FIG Room, Crowe 2-130
Colloquium materials are available at the CLS program office, Crowe 1-117.
Media Encounters: Reimagining Feminist Thought
Participants include Nick Davis (English & Gender Studies) as chair, Homay King (Bryn Mawr), Patricia White (Swarthmore), and Domietta Torlasco (Film theory & CLS)
Friday, October 23, 2009
4:30 p.m.
French & Italian seminar room (Kresge 2-420)
This conference will not only re-examine feminist film theory in light of new
developments in feminist thought, but will also explore the increasingly intimate relationship of these new forms of thought to emerging forms of audiovisual practice. The aim of this conference is to deepen interdisciplinary dialogue around media production and interpretation.
Sponsored by the Department of French & Italian, Art History, English, Gender Studies, German, Philosophy, Radio, Television & Film, the Center for Screen Cultures, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies.
