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		Events			SPRING 2007

		Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Spring 2004			Monday, January 22, 5:15 pm Peter Decherney Who 'Performs' A Film?: Copyright Law and New Media in 1911 History of Material Texts Seminar Lea Library - 6th floor - Van Pelt Library 3421 Woodland Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, January 23, 7:00 pm The Rape of Europa Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham USA, 2006, 117 min, English Based on Lynn H. Nicholas’ book of the same name, this astonishing and timely documentary tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich. The film begins and ends with artist Gustav Klimt’s 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer--a turn-of-the-20th-century Viennese hostess. Recently, the painting was sold to New York’s Neue Galerie Museum, founded by Ronald S. Lauder. Screening will be followed by a distinguished panel, which includes Lynn H. Nicholas, Author, Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and WWII Lawrence M. Kaye, International Art Lawyer Jonathan Steinberg, History, University of Pennsylvania Sponsored by the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival and Penn Cinema Studies International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, January 24, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola, USA/JAPAN, 2003 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, January 30, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Osvaldo Romberg From Paradise to Paradise: A Hypertext about Love *From Paradise to Paradise: A Hypertext about Love* (42min) engages the historical evolution of love through the impassioned affair of Carlos and Isadora, two life-size transparent plastic humanoids acting their relationship in a surreal world of Old Master paintings, jazz ballet, and a confrontation between Wagner and Jewish klezmer. Through the course of suffering, lies, deceit, and condemnation, the relation between love and guilt disappears and everyone goes to paradise. In addition to the screening of From Paradise to Paradise, Romberg will screen his current work-in-progress, *Jesus de Buenos Aires, in which Jesus Christ faces another inquisition but this time by Lacan and Freud. Set to tango music and accompanied by images of Giotto, Jesus de Buenos Aires* offers another conception of Jesus as a dissident Jew as he attempts to rehabilitate the 1960s Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. This will be the American premiere of Jesus de Buenos Aires. Osvaldo Romberg was born in Buenos Aires. He is a Professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation, where he has curated retrospectives on artists such as William Anastasi, Hermann Nitsch, and Dennis Oppenheim. He has also curated exhibitions on Faith at the Aldrich Museum and on Urbanism at White Box, New York. Before joining the curatorial team at Slought Foundation, his artwork was the subject of a 2001 symposium at the University of Pennsylvania and a volume of critical essays, Searching for Romberg (2002). He has widely exhibited as an artist at institutions including: Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and Cinema Studies Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, January 31, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Wes Anderson, USA, 2004 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, February 7, 6:00 pm Women, Men, and Family in Post WWII Italy A Film Series Roma città aperta (Open City) Sponsored by Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia and Penn Center for Italian Studies 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, February 7, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Memento Christopher Nolan, USA, 2000 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Monday, February 12, 7:00 pm YARI FILM GROUP RELEASING presents a screening preview of GRAY MATTERS Sue Kramer, 2006, US, 96 min, PG-13 Release date: February 23, 2007 Screening to be followed by Q&A with Director/Writer Sue Kramer Sponsored by Yari Film Group Releasing, Los Angeles International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, February 14, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Little Miss Sunshine Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, USA, 2006 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, February 20, 9:00 am Cinema and Television Studies Speaker Series SHILPA DAVÉ American Studies, Brandeis University Screening Asian Men in America: Asian American Masculinity and American Popular Culture Shilpa Davé is Assistant Professor of Asian American and Ethnic Studies in the Department of American Studies at Brandeis University. She is the co-editor of EAST MAIN STREET: ASIAN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE (NYU Press). She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan in Literature and her research areas include Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature and Popular Culture. She is currently working on a book project that explores political and cultural citizenship of South Asian Americans in literature and popular culture. 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, February 20, 12:00 pm Contemporary Documentary Cinema Speaker Series ALEX GIBNEY 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, February 21, 6:00 pm Women, Men, and Family in Post WWII Italy A Film Series L'amore in città (Love in the City) Sponsored by Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia and Penn Center for Italian Studies 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, February 21, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu, USA/MEXICO, 2006 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, February 28, 5:30 pm PHILIPPE MET Romance Languages, Penn From Ray to Resnais (via Harry Dickson): Resurrecting a Film that never was Philippe Met is an Associate Professor of Romance Languages at Penn. French Modern poetry (from Baudelaire to the present) and 19th- and 20th-century fantastic literature (Mérimée, Gautier, Maupassant, Ghelderode, Jean Ray, et al.). He is the author of Formules de la poésie (PUF, 1999), a study of fragmentation processes in the poetry of Francis Ponge, Michel Leiris, René Char and André du Bouchet. He has also published widely on topics ranging from French classicism to the bande dessinée, from genetic criticism to vampires. He was co-editor of a special issue of L'Esprit Créateur (Re-casting Mallarmé, 2000), contributed to the Pléiade edition of Ponge's Collected Works, and is editing a volume of critical essays on the poetry of Du Bouchet (André du Bouchet et ses autres, to be published by Les Lettres Modernes). Current book-length projects include: a comparative study of the subversion of signs in fantastic literature, and an essay on the poetics of the notebook from Rimbaud to contemporary practices (to be published by Rodopi). He is also pursuing a strong interest in film studies, more specifically crime and horror movies. Sponsored by Cinema Studies Colloquium 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, February 28, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Fantastic Voyage Richard Fleischer, USA, 1966 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, March 14, 6:00 pm Women, Men, and Family in Post WWII Italy A Film Series Divorzio all'italiana (Divorce, Italian Style) Sponsored by Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia and Penn Center for Italian Studies 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, March 14, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Stephen Herek, USA, 1989 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, March 21, 5:00 pm Third Annual Film and Pedagogy Colloquium - Graduate Student Works-in-Progress - This year we are focusing on how graduate students can incorporate elements of their research in the classroom. We hope to arrange several panels on topics such as the construction of syllabi, the formation of in-class exercises, and the inclusion of archival research. Sponsored by Cinema Studies Colloquium 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, March 21, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Quentin Tarantino, USA, 2003 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, March 28, 6:00 pm Women, Men, and Family in Post WWII Italy A Film Series C'eravamo tanto amati (We Loved Each Other So Much) Sponsored by Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia and Penn Center for Italian Studies 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, March 28, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, UK/USA, 1968 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, March 29, 7:00 pm The 2007 College House Student Film Festival The Bridge Cinema de Lux Corner of 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, March 29, 7:00 pm Mohammed Naqvi Penn Alumnus - Theatre Arts Major presents his movie SHAME Q&A with Director to follow The Bridge Cinema de Lux Corner of 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Friday, March 30, 7:00 pm The 2007 Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival Keynote address by film director Mohammed Naqvi International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tickets: $5, reserve tickets in advance at GPSFF.com Saturday, March 31, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm NEW MEDIA AND HISPANIC STUDIES FIRST SESSION - 10:00 to 12:00 Welcoming Remarks Román de la Campa, Chair Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania Introduction Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania Media Medieval, New Media, and Hispanic Studies Justin Crumbaugh, Mount Holyoke College Are We All (Still) Miguel Angel Blanco? The Vicariousness of Victimhood and the Media Afterlife Vicente Benet, Universitat Jaume I Excesos de memoria: la Guerra Civil y las políticas mediáticas Speakers presented by Sara Nada-Melsió, University of Pennsylvania SECOND SESSION - 2:00 to 4:00 Peter Decherney, University of Pennsylvania Media Studies and the "YouNiversity" Craig Epplin, University of Pennsylvania Cardboard and New Media: Spaces and Politics of Association in Argentina Reinaldo Laddaga, University of Pennsylvania La construcción de una escena. Usos de los medios digitales Cristina Venega, University of California, Santa Barbara The Cuban Revolution and the Self in the Age of Digitalia Speakers presented by Yolanda Martínex-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania Sponsored by Penn Department of Romance Languages and Cinema Studies 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, April 4, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Blade Runner Ridley Scott, USA, 1982 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT April 5-18 THE 16th PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL In conjunction with the Philadelphia Film Society Penn Cinema Studies presents THE CINE CAFES Wednesday, April 11, 5:00 pm Documenting Dreams, Death, and Desires (Comrades in Dreams - Forever) Led by Timothy Corrigan, Penn Cinema Studies Voices and Visions - The Bourse (lower level) 4th Street, Philadelphia Thursday, April 12, 5:00 pm Danger After Dark: Asian Gangsters and Beyond (Dirty Carnival - Exiled) Led by Philippe Met, Penn French and Cinema Studies Penn Bookstore 3601 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Sunday, April 15, 5:00 pm From Page To Screen: Raymond Carver, Walt Disney, and William Shakespeare (Jindabyne - The Disney Cartoon: Nine Decades of Magic) Led by Peter Decherney, Penn Cinema Studies Pizza Rustica 3602 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Monday, April 16, 5:00 pm Spanish Magic Ruralism (Night of the Sunflowers) Led by Michael Solomon, Penn Spanish and Cinema Studies Last Word Bookshop 39th Street between Walnut and Locust, Philadelphia Tuesday, April 17, 5:00 pm From Periphery to Center in International Cinema (Warchild - 12:08 East of Bucharest) Led by Meta Mazaj & Nicola M Gentili, Penn Cinema Studies Metropolitan Bakery 4013 Walnut Street, Philadelphia CINE CAFES ARE FREE ADMISSION EVENTS TICKET PURCHASE REQUIRED FOR FILM SCREENINGS Friday, April 6, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm REEL TRAVEL: DISPLACEMENTS OF FILM In 1976, Wim Wenders’ Kings of the Road redefined the road film, and in the thirty years since, cinema and travel have existed in continuous dialogue. What energies, fantasies, and anxieties are released when film crosses a border or hits the road? How do movies respond to tourism, exile, migration, flight? How are ideas of "nation" and "foreignness" shaped by cinema and what part does cinema play in globalism? 9:00 am Introduction Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania 9:10 am Documents in Disorder Moderator: Oliver Gaycken, Temple University Katie Trumpener, Yale University The Journey to Poland: Helke Misselwitz’s Foreign Oder and the Posterity of GDR Documentary David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania Are We All (Still) Miguel Angel Blanco? The Vicariousness of Victimhood and the Media Afterlife 11:15 am The Peripatetics of Displacement Moderator: Edley Wong (Penn Humanities Forum Fellow) Short Videos and Conversation with Conceptual Artist Kinga Arraya 1:15 pm Travels with Michael Haneke Moderator: Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College Empire's Remains: Displacement and Historical Memory in Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup Fatima Naqvi, Rutgers University Hiding Places: Migration and Space in Michael Hanekes Films 3:20 pm In the Course of Time: Travel, Cinema, Media Moderator: Tim Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania Gerd Gemünden, Dartmouth College Wenders Revisited Rod Coover, Temple University Characters, Paths, and Panoramas; New Media Tools and the Displacements of the Cinematic Journey Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum in association with Penn's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies Program Penn Humanities Forum 3619 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Friday, April 6, 6:00 pm Penn's Hispanic Studies Majors present their senior project, a documentary film on New Mexican Cinema: 1968-1979 El espejo sangriento El espejo sangriento (19 mins in Spanish) introduces and explores El nuevo cine mexicano, a movement that emerged in opposition to Mexico’s declining commercial film industry and in response to the political events leading up to and following the massacre in the La Plaza de las Tres Culturas at Tlatelolco in October of 1968. Logan Hall - Room 17 249 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Tuesday, April 10, 6:00 pm Copyright in Action: Exploring Film Parody Culminating event of the 2007 student Mashup Contest to create a trailer that parodies a well-known film. Panel discussion with Peter Decherney (Cinema Studies) and Nelson Gayton (Wharton School) moderated by Provost Ronald Daniels. The panel discussion will be followed by a viewing of top contest entries, the awarding of prizes for the best use of parody, and a reception in the David B. Weigle Information Commons. Sponsored by the Penn Library, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Penn Reading Project/College Houses and Academic Services Class of ’55 Conference Room 2nd floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 pm Women, Men, and Family in Post WWII Italy A Film Series Pane e tulipani (Bread and Tulips) Sponsored by Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia and Penn Center for Italian Studies 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, April 11, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series Lovers of the Artic Circle Julio Medem, SPAIN/FRANCE, 1998 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Thursday, April 12, 5:00 pm Cinema and Television Studies Speaker Series SANDRA BRAMAN University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Information, Policy, and Power in the Informational State While information policy is among the most ancient forms of governance, there has been a phase change—a change of state—in the extent to which governments exercise power by deliberately, explicitly, and consistently controlling information creation, processing, flows, and use. Changes in the law, in the subject of the law, and in how we think about the law can result in a change in the very nature of the state itself because the institutions, processes, and policies of any given political form are but a moment of stability within a much wider, more diffuse, and constantly shifting policy field. Three types of knowledge must be brought together to understand just how this change of state has come about and what it means for the exercise of power domestically and globally: In addition to knowledge of the law itself, research on the empirical world provides evidence about the policy subject (the world for which information policy is made) and social theory provides an analytical foundation. Bringing these types of knowledge together makes visible trends in the identities of the state and of its citizens; social, technological, and informational structures; the borders of those structures; and the ways in which those structures change. This talk will explore ways in which currents in information policy across traditional legal silos combine to affect society in each of these areas, looking both at the U.S. as a case and global resonances with these trends. Sandra Braman has been doing research on the macro-level effects of digital technologies and their policy implications for over two decades. Recent work includes Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power (MIT Press, 2006) and the edited volumes The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information (Erlbaum, 2004), and Communication Researchers and Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003). 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, April 18, 9:00 pm Traveling through Cinema, A Film Series National Lampoon's Vacation Harold Ramis, USA, 1983 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and New World Cinema Program at Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 A FREE ADMISSION EVENT Wednesday, April 18, 5:00 pm Cinema and Television Studies Speaker Series ERIC BYLER New Media, Politics, and Social Responsibility Chinese American writer/director Eric Byler grew up in California, Virginia, and Hawaii before graduating from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Eric was nominated for a 2003 Independent Spirit Award for his debut feature film Charlotte Sometimes, which also earned nominations for producer Marc Ambrose and actress Jacqueline Kim. Eric's second feature Americanese was acquired for theatrical release (fall 2007) by IFC Films and won both the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2006. His first effort as a television director, My Life Disoriented, aired on PBS stations around the country in late 2006 and early 2007. His latest feature film is the Charlotte Sometimes sequel Tre, recent winner of the Special Jury Award at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Talk to be followed at 7:00-8:30 pm by Free Screening of PBS TV Pilot My Life Disoriented, and Sneak Preview of upcoming theatrical release Americanese courtesy of IFC Films followed by a discussion with writer/director Eric Byler. 402 Logan Hall 249 South 36th Street University of Pennsylvania BOTH ARE FREE ADMISSION EVENTS

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