Fall 2007 MLC EVENTS
THE HUMANITIES PROJECT PRESENTS:
Reimagining the Americas: Cultures, Identities, Formations and Transformations
Food and Film Series
Media cover for De ida y vuelta.
De ida y vuelta (2000)
DATE: Tuesday, September 18, 2007
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Meliora 203, River Campus
Professor Daniel Reichman of the Anthropology Department will introduce the film.
Read more about the film on the Internet Movie Database.
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Media cover for Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes.
Related Film, being screened at the Dryden Theatre
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
DATE: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
TIME: 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Dryden Theatre, George Eastman House
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (a brand-new 35mm print!) is being screened at the Dryden on September 26, and relates to this series.
German with English subtitles
For more information about this film and directions please visit the Dryden Theatre.
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Speaker Series
Helena María Viramontes
Reading from her new novel "Their Dogs Came With Them"
DATE: Thursday, October 4, 2007
TIME: 5:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Helena María Viramontes is the author of two key books in the Chicana literary canon: The Moths and Other Stories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a novel. Her new novel, Their Dogs Came with Them, from which she will be giving a reading, focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramontes was born and raised. Like all of her writing, this monumental book strives to recreate the visceral sense of a world virtually unknown to mainstream letters and to transform readers through relentlessly compassionate storytelling.
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Media cover for The Milagro Beanfield War.
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
DATE: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Meliora 203, River Campus
Professor Claudia Schaefer of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures will introduce the film.
The Milagro Beanfield War is an Oscar-winning 1988 American film drama based on the John Nichols novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was by Nichols and David S. Ward.
Read more about the film on the Internet Movie Database.
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Media cover for Santitos.
Santitos (1999)
DATE: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Meliora 203, River Campus
Professor Beth Jörgensen of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures will introduce the film.
Director: Alejandro Springall. Synopsis: Pious widow Esperanza is devastated when her teenage daughter dies as the result of a mysterious virus contracted during a routine throat operation. Remarkably, she is told that her daughter is still alive by a vision of Saint Jude who appears in her dirty oven. So begins Esperanza's journey through sleazy brothels and eventually to Los Angeles to try and find her lost child.
Spanish with English subtitles
Read more about the film on the Internet Movie Database.
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