Date:
November 15, 2007
Keynote speaker:
Professor Mildred Mortimer, University of Colorado
Participant speakers:
Hedi Abdel-Jaouad, Skidmore College
Safoi Bambara-Hampton, Michigan State University
Silvie Dumelat, Georgetown University
Pamela Pears, Washington College
Jarrod Hayes, University of Michigan
Special Guest:
Algerian Playwright Alec Baylee Toumi will speak on Algeria and read excerpts from his play, “Madah-Sartre” which has just been translated into English by Nebraska UP.
There will be a booksale and signing in the Stamp Student Center of all books by participants.
For more information contact Professor Valerie Orlando
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The Department of French and Italian of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to attend the following lecture:
“Queering Performance in Three Films: American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, Boys Don’t Cry”
by
Dr. Christine Holmlund, Professor of French, Cinema Studies, and Women’s Studies, at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Date : Thursday, November 8, 2007
Time : 12:30-1:30 pm
Place: St. Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room
Dr. Chris Holmlund has a B.A. in French from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of interest and scholarship include contemporary film and video, documentary, avant-garde, independent and mainstream feature work produced in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Francophone Africa. Her recent publications include: “Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream”, ed. Chris Holmlund and Justin Wyatt (2004); “Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies” (2002); “Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary”, ed. Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs (1997).
In addition to this lecture, Dr. Holmlund will discuss “Feminism and Post-colonialism in French Cinema” in Caroline Eades’ FREN 699G Seminar at 6:00pm on November 8th in JMZ 3120. All are welcome to attend.
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Thursday October 4 – Friday October 5
St. Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room
University of Maryland, College Park
Funded by the Nathan & Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Department of History, the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the Office of International Programs,
and the Center for Persian Studies.
Click here for Conference Program
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