Watch this space for the announcement of upcoming lectures and events for winter 2019. Every Wednesday at 5pm in 250 KMBL International Cinema hosts a 30 minute lecture from a professor who provides context to one or more of the films playing at IC that week. These lectures are a real highlight of the program and are not to be missed. The first lecture for winter 2019 will be 16 Jan by Prof. Rob Colson (Comparative Art & Letters) on the film Lion. More information about the coming semester will be posted soon.
Professor Marc Yamada (Comparative Letters and Art) is offering the last lecture of 2018 on Poetry (Chang-dong Lee, 2010). Wednesday December 5. 250KMBL. 5PM.
Professor Dennis Perry (English) will lecture on Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959). Wed. Nov. 28, 5PM. 250KMBL
On Wednesday 14 Nov. Prof. Chip Oscarson (Scandinavian and Interdisciplinary Humanities) will present a lecture on the films of legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman entitled “Ingmar Bergman and the Hopeless Dream of Being.” The lecture will be immediately followed by Bergman’s classic, high modernist film Persona (1966).
Professor Jarica Watts (English) will lecture on the theme of remembrance of WWI in terms of literary and visual representation. Wednesday November 7. 5PM. 250KMBL
Do not miss professor Dennis Cutchins’ (English) last lecture on Frankenstein! Wednesday October 31. 5PM. 250KMBL
Professor Julie Allen (CAL) will lecture on “What Will People Say” (Iram Haq, 2017), Wednesday October 24 (5PM, 250KMBL).
Ib Bondebjerg, professor emeritus Media Studies Copenhagen University, will talk about contemporary European TV series dealing with history. Wednesday October 17, 4:45PM, 250 KMBL
Join us for a Q&A led by professor Mac Wilson (Spanish) following the screening of The Summer of the Flying Fish (Marcela Said, 2013) this coming Saturday (close to 7:30PM).
Professor Avram Shannon (Ancient Scripture) will talk about Hasidic Judaism to draw a better cultural and religious background for the film Driver (Yehonatan Indursky, 2017).