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		Events			FALL 2007

		Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Spring 2004			Tuesday, September 18, 10:30 am CINEMA and TELEVISION STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES Ron Simon Paley Center for Media, Nee York & California Television Studies 138 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, September 20, 6:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES PRESENTS Graduate student Information Session: Find out more about the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Courses, and Teaching Assistantships in Cinema Studies All departments welcome 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, September 25, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Central Station Walter Salles, 1998 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, September 26, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series Knocked Up Judd Apatow, 2007 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, September 27, 5:00 pm PENN SOUTH ASIA CENTER and CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Documentary Screening Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom) Sanjay Kak, 2007 discussion with filmmaker Sanjay Kak to follow 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, September 27, 6:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM Mary Ann Doane Screening the Avant-Garde Face Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, October 2, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Lovers of the Arctic Circle Julio Medem, 1998 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, October 3, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series Fight Club David Fincher, 1999 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Friday, October 5, 3:30 pm HISTORY OF ART COLLOQUIUM Karen Beckman Photographic Messages from Iraq: M. Ho and Roland Barthes 201 Jaffe Building 3405 Woodland Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Monday, October 8, 7:00 pm CINEMA STUDIES PRESENTS Robert Beavers Early Monthly Segments 1968-70/2002, 33 min The Ground 1993/2001, 20 min Pitcher of Colored Light 2007, 23.5 min discussion with filmmaker Robert Beavers to follow International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT This event is supported by the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Fund for Cinema Studies Programming. Monday, October 8, 7:00 pm RACE, SEX, AND GENDER IN EARLY CINEMA FILM SERIES PRESENTS The Birth of a Nation D.W. Griffith, 1915 Screening Room on the Fourth Floor Gregory College House 3901 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, October 9, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Before the Rain Milcho Manchevski, 1994 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, October 10, 5:00 pm PENN ENGLISH and CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Annette Kolodny Tropic Trapping in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto and Joseph Nicolar's Life and Traditions of the Red Man 231 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, October 10, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series The Big Lebowski Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, October 11, 10:30 am CINEMA and TELEVISION STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES Lynn Spigel Center for Screen Cultures, Northwestern University Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production 138 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, October 17, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series Grizzly Man Werner Herzog, 2005 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, October 18, 5:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM William Boddy ’Is it TV Yet?’: Visions of the Post-Broadcast Television Audience 113 Jaffe Building 3405 Woodland Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Monday, October 22, 7:00 pm RACE, SEX, AND GENDER IN EARLY CINEMA FILM SERIES PRESENTS The Cheat Cecil B. DeMille, 1915 Broken Blossoms D.W. Griffith, 1919 Screening Room on the Fourth Floor Gregory College House 3901 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT October 22 - 25 CINEMA STUDIES PRESENTS Werner Herzog Monday, October 22, 6:30 pm "Walking on Ice: Werner Herzog's Metaphysics of Filmmaking" A public conversation about the work of Werner Herzog. This event will feature Timothy Corrigan, Thomas Y. Levin, Heidi Schlipphacke, and Alan Singer in a conversation introduced by Karen Beckman, and has been jointly organized by Tim Corrigan and Aaron Levy on the occasion of "Ecstatic Truth: Documenting Herzog 'Documenting,'" an exhibition exploring the work of Werner Herzog, on display in the Slought Foundation galleries from October 22 through November 15, 2007. Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, October 23, 7:00 pm Screening of ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD Werner Herzog, 2007 preceded by Michael Highland's "As Real as Your Life" International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, October 24, 5:00 pm WERNER HERZOG in conversation with Paul Holdengraber: Was the 20th Century a Mistake? B-1 Meyerson Hall 210 South 34th Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, October 25, 7:30 pm "Ecstatic Truth: Documenting Herzog 'Documenting'" A public conversation between Werner Herzog and Karen Beckman. This event has been organized in conjunction with an exhibition featuring work by Werner Herzog, accompanied by images of the filmmaker by photographer Beat Presser. The exhibition will include manifestos, films, and photographs that engage Herzog's continued explorations of "ecstatic truth" and the boundary between fiction and documentary practice. Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC This program is made possible through the generous sponsorship or support of the Jerry and Emily Spiegel Funds in Fine Arts, the Cinema Studies Program, the Department of German, and the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. We would also like to thank International House of Philadelphia, the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation, and the Roy & Niuta Titus Foundation. Very special thanks for organizing the Werner Herzog's Fall 2007 visit at the University of Pennsylvania goes to Paul Holdengräber, Nathaniel Kahn, Nicola M. Gentili, Timothy Corrigan, Karen Beckman, and Peter Decherney. Monday, October 29, 7:00 pm RACE, SEX, AND GENDER IN EARLY CINEMA FILM SERIES PRESENTS Traffic in Souls George Loane Tucker, 1913 Screening Room on the Fourth Floor Gregory College House 3901 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, October 30, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Raise the Red Lantern Yimou Zhang, 1991 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, October 31, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series The Shining Stanley Kubrick, 1980 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, November 6, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Oldboy Chan-wook Park, 2003 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, November 7, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro, 2006 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, November 13, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Moolaadé Ousmane Sembene, 2004 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, November 14, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series Boogie Nights Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, November 15, 5:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM John L. Jackson. Jr. The Promised Land: African American Emigration to Southern Israel 113 Jaffe Building 3405 Woodland Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Monday, November 19, 7:00 pm RACE, SEX, AND GENDER IN EARLY CINEMA FILM SERIES PRESENTS Within Our Gates Oscar Micheaux, 1920 Screening Room on the Fourth Floor Gregory College House 3901 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Monday, November 26, 7:00 pm RACE, SEX, AND GENDER IN EARLY CINEMA FILM SERIES PRESENTS The Son of the Sheik George Fitzmaurice, 1926 Screening Room on the Fourth Floor Gregory College House 3901 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, November 27, 10:30 am CINEMA and TELEVISION STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES Janine Marchessault Fine Arts, York University Fluid Screens: The Future of Expanded Cinema 138 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, November 27, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Dogville Lars von Trier, 2003 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, November 28, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series Election Alexander Payne, 1999 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, November 29, 5:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM Philip Rosen In Depth: Film Theory, Illusionism, and Contemporary Media Culture 113 Jaffe Building 3405 Woodland Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, December 4, 8:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Contemporary International Film Series Lage Raho Munna Bhai Rajkumar Hirani, 2006 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, December 5, 9:00 pm PENN HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE AND PCA - PENN CINEMA ASSOCIATION PRESENT Cinema: The Whole Nine Yards... A Film Series Mulholland Dr. David Lynch, 2001 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, December 6, 5:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM Eve Troutt-Powell Through a Different Lens: Middle Eastern History in Film 113 Jaffe Building 3405 Woodland Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT

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