Spring 2007
Several of our past lectures have been recorded and rebroadcast by TPT, channel 17. These can now be viewed here through our media page.
January
"The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages": A talk by Geraldine Heng, 1/25/07
Symposium: "The Baroque Across the Disciplines", 1/26/07
An Evening with Kenneth Anger, 1/26/07
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry: Lecture by Samuel Freedman, 1/30/07
Open Rehearsal of "Wreck", 1/31/07
The Making of Memory, 1/31/07-2/1/07
February
The Making of Memory, 1/31/07-2/1/07
"Narrative Ruptures: The Films of Christopher Maclaine": presented by Hisham Bizri, 2/1/07
The Trouble with Time: Personal and Public Narratives in Memoir and History, 2/1/07
Centuries in the Heart of Europe: Jews in Golden Prague: Lecture by Gary Cohen, 2/7/07
"Performing Polarities: Activist Theatre in Israel-Palestine": A talk with Chen Alon, 2/8/07
"Romanticism's Horizons": a talk with Bali Sahota, 2/8/07
"Stan Brakhage's ARABICS": presented by Hisham Bizri, 2/8/07
"On the Objection Front" - documentary film by Shiri Tsur, 2/8/07
Bridge Markland's "Faust in the Box," 2/15/07
Armenians and Turkey's Lingering Past - program airing on TPT, 2/17/07
"The Search for Rational Religion in the Early Republic": A talk with Kirsten Fischer, 2/19/07
"Quiet Time/Love's Labour": Nash Gallery Exhibition, 2/20-2/23/07
"Startling Facts about Feelings: The New Science of Emotion": A talk by Bruce Cuthbert, 2/22/07
An Evening with Peter Tscherkassy, Hyperfootage, 2/22/07
"Mere Projections: Galileo and Scheiner on the Sunspots": A talk with Eileen Reeves, 2/23/07
An Evening with Frederique Devaux, Hyperfootage, 2/23/07
Screenings with Matthias Muller and Christoph Girardet, Hyperfootage, 2/24/07
"Childbirth and Mary: Second and Third Century Sources": a talk with Jennifer Glancy, 2/26/07
Mapping Timescales - presentation by David Christian and David Fox, 2/28/07
Public Places / Private Spaces, 2/28/07-3/1/07
March
Public Places / Private Spaces, 3/1/07
"The Films of Ernie Gehr": presented by Liz Kotz, 3/1/07
Open Rehearsal of "Wreck", 3/7/07
"Abderrahmane Sissakho's Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness)": presented by Charles Sugnet, 3/08/07
"Rwanda and Darfur: A Comparative Analysis": a talk by Scott Straus, 3/08/07
"Gender, Affect, Melodrama: Reading Hmong Diasporic Video" - a talk by Louisa Schein, 3/19/07
Louisa Schein: Workshop on Media, Diaspora, and Method, 3/20/07
Tea Ceremony with Fumio Watanabe, 3/20/07
"Zeb and Sua" - Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Thai Khang and Louisa Schein, 3/21/07
"Alexander Kluge's "Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed"": presented by Rembert Hueser, 3/22/07
"Exact Sciences in Sanskrit in Early Modern India": a talk with Christopher Minkowski, 3/22/07
"Philosophy and Kabbalah on the Pursuit of Happiness": a talk by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, 3/22/07
"Art As Knowing: A Public Conversation about Art, Ideas, and Practice", 3/23/07-3/24/07
"Searching for Palmares": A conversation with Kamau Brathwaite, 3/23/07
"The Creation & Gestation of the Center for Creative Research: A Live Documentary", 3/24/07
Global Justice and Human Rights Trials - program airing on TPT, 3/25/07
"Porous Sovereignty/Walled Democracy": A talk with Wendy Brown, 3/26/07
"Countdown to Apartheid in Israel/Palestine" - a talk by Jeff Halper, 3/28/07
"DocuPoems": presented by Christophe Wall-Romana, 3/29/07
"Time and Language": Presentation by Anatoly Liberman, 3/29/07
April
"The Negative Dialectics of Grindcore" - a presentation by Liam Dee, 4/2/07
Tomb to Womb: Awareness of Language Death & Birth, 4/2-4/6/07
"Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations and the Taliban Resurgence": A talk with Juan Cole, 4/4/07
River Runs Through All of Us, 4/4/07
"Chinese Postsocialist Realism: Jia Zhangke": presented by Jason McGrath, 4/5/07
"The Internet, the Public Intellectual and the 'War on Terror'": A talk with Juan Cole, 4/5/07
"Survivance: Theory and Practice in Native American Narratives" - a talk by Gerald Vizenor, 4/9/07
"Comparative History and the Study of Roman Slavery": A lecture by Jane Webster, 4/9/07
"Which way South Africa after Thabo Mbeki?": Presentation by Xolela Mangcu, 4/10/07
"On the Question of Ottoman Curiosity": a talk with Giancarlo Casale, 4/12/07
Mississippi River Over Time: Changing Landscapes of the River, 4/12/07
"The Archeology of Slave Shipping, 1600-1807": A talk with Jane Webster, 4/12/07
"Voicing the Past": A talk with Ramsay Liem, 4/12/07
"Future Legacies: Korean Diaspora in the 20th Century", 4/13/07
"Wreck" - Carl Flink and Black Label Movement, 4/13/07-4/14/07
"Future Legacies: Korean Diaspora in the 20th Century": A presentation by Ji-Yeon Yuh, 4/13/07
Still Present Pasts Opening, 4/14/07
Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics, and Literature, 4/14/07
"Korean War: Past and Present": presented by Joanne Rhim Lee and Richard Kagan, 4/19/07-04/20/07
"Divided: Contemporary Korean American Theater and Performance", 4/21/07
American Genocide and Justice - program airing on TPT, 4/22/07
"Why Iraq? The Politics of Bush II": A talk by Robert Brenner, 4/23/07
"Property and Progress: Where Adam Smith Went Wrong" - a talk by Robert Brenner, 4/23/07
Armenians and Turkey's Lingering Past - program airing on TPT cablecast, 4/23/07
"Resisting (through) Metaphor: Making Space for AIDS" - a talk by Gerry Kearns, 4/24/07
Story and Psyche, 4/25/07-4/26/07
"Uncanny Pulse-streams in Music" - A lecture and demonstration by Michael Cherlin, 4/25/07
"Ismael Ferroukhi's "Le Grand Voyage"": presented by Hakim Abderrezak, 4/26/07
4th Annual Graduate Student Roundtable, 4/26/07
May
"Helmut Kautner's "Himmel Ohne Sterne" (Heaven Without Stars)": presented by Dean Otto, 5/3/2007
Celebrate Korean Children's Day, 5/5/07
Korean Children's Day: Local Documentary Panel moderated by Soo Jin Pate, 5/5/07
Korean Children's Day: Evening with Deann Borshay Liem, 5/5/07
Global Justice and Human Rights Trials - program airing on TPT, 5/12/07
Juan Cole: the Internet and the "War on Terror" - program airing on TPT, 5/26/07