Events
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| Poetry on the Plaza: Ballads and Balladeers | October 1, 2008 12:00 PM | The Harry Ransom Center presents the free Poetry on the Plaza event Ballads and Balladeers on Wednesday, October 1, at noon. Popularized by the Romantics, the ballad is a unique narrative form of poetry that conveys stories of love, heroes, and tragedies. Students from University of Texas at Austin professor Andrew Cooper's "Romantic Authorship" course read ballads by traditional English poets John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as modern and folk interpretations of the ballad form. Pick up a free Poetry on the Plaza poster and bookmark with the 2008-09 schedule at the visitors' desk in the Ransom Center lobby. more about event >> | Harry ransom Center | |
| Lecture by German Professor Jörg Jacobs ''The role of foreign policy in the German federal elections and the process of European integration'' | October 7, 2008 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | LBJ School of Public Affairs: Dean's Conference Room | The Strauss Center for International Security and Law | |
| 1968: A Global Perpective An Interdisciplinary Conference at UT Austin held in tandem with the fifth Annual Graduate Comparative Literature Conference | October 7-12, 2008 | The year 1968 has become a central myth for the twentieth century, the purported moment of origin for "the present" -- for current politics, culture, and academics. This conference commemorates the 40th anniversary of 1968 by calling for a reassessment of its local and global impacts, its icons, myths, and images, the traces and absences left in its wake, and the intellectual and cultural heritages that we are still working through, as the collective memory of participants fades into a post-memory of the still incomplete projects of modernization, globalization, and liberation. The conference aims to create interdisciplinary discussions of the many different 1968 experiences and projects that can be recovered in global, national, and international frameworks. Flashpoints, major players, artistic responses in all media and genres, and (re)theorizings of 1968 and its heritage will be included as conference themes. Please join us in the fall for this unique event. more about event >> | Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies | |
| German Film Series, Fall 2008 - Sexual Revolutions in German Cinema Coming Out (Heiner Carow, 1989) | October 7, 2008 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | EP Schoch 4.104 Conference Room | Coming Out (Heiner Carow, 1989) Phillip, a young high school teacher engaged to be married, falls in love with Matthias, a gay man he meets at a party. By the time Phillip comes out to Tanja, his fiancée, Matthias has already discovered that he has been leading a double life and refuses to see him again, which leaves Phillip reeling. Premiered on the same evening the Berlin Wall came down, Coming Out is the only film made in the GDR to deal with homosexuality, and is one of only a few reflections on being gay in former East Germany. more about event >> | Department of Germanic Studies |
| Italian Film ''Nirvana'' | October 9, 2008 8:00 PM | MEZ BO.306 100 (basement) | Nirvana is a science fiction movie, produced in Italy in 1997 by director Gabriele Salvatores, starring Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono and Stefania Rocca. Nirvana is one of the rare Italian science fiction films to use extensive computer generated special effects. The director, Gabriele Salvatores, shot the movie mainly in "Portello" the old Alfa Romeo assembly plant in Milan. The whole place was converted in this sci-fi set where many ethnic sides of the city are shown. From the Indian to the Japanese to the Chinese, the movie moves around the dynamic and the futuristic realms that the future created. The storyline itself exemplifies several main themes of cyberpunk, such as the Philip K. Dick quote "Living and unliving things are exchanging properties", meaning computers are becoming human, and humans are becoming less so, both by the influence of technology. Despite a poor box office reception amidst accusations of weak plotting and simplistic rendering of the main themes, Nirvana has achieved something of a cult status, especially in Europe. The title of the film is key to understanding its comparison of reincarnation with being endlessly reborn in a video game. from wikipedia more about event >> | Department of French and Italian |
| Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series Presents Dr. Gary Wilder Decolonization without National Independence: Léopold Senghor's Utopian Vision of Postwar France | October 13, 2008 12:00 PM-1:30 PM | Garrison Hall, 4th Floor | All are welcomed. As lunch will be provided, please rsvp to Courtney Meador by 9:00a.m., Friday, October 10, 2008. For a copy of the pre-circulated paper please Courtney Meador as well. more about event >> | Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History |
| Performance: Music from the Collections: Medieval Manuscripts | October 20, 2008 7:00 PM | Jessen Auditorium | The Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Butler School of Music, in collaboration with the Harry Ransom Center and the Programs of Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, and Italian Studies, is hosting the residency of the ensemble Micrologus during the Fall semester of 2008. During their residency, the ensemble will offer a concert, a concert-recital and meet with interested students to work on issues of performance practice, research methods on medieval music, and career perspectives in the field of early music. In connection with the upcoming exhibition of the Harry Ransom Center, The Mystique of the Archive, performances and instructional activities will incorporate materials from the Center's collections transcribed by Professor Luisa Nardini and her students. The ensemble Micrologus is one of the most distinguished groups of medieval music with an impressive repertory that spans from sacred and secular monophonic music to early Renaissance repertory. Their performances are based on a scholarly approach to manuscript sources, organology, iconography, and an awareness of methods and results achieved in the field of ethnographic research on the musical traditions of the area of the Mediterranean. They have released 22 CDs, some of which receive | |
| German Film Series, Fall 2008 - Sexual Revolutions in German Cinema My Father is Coming (Monika Treut, 1991) | October 21, 2008 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | EP Schoch 4.104 Conference Room | My Father is Coming (Monika Treut, 1991) A comical and racy look at a young woman's attempts to come to terms with her sexuality and conservative background. When her provincial father comes to visit her in NYC, Vicky initially conceals her relationship with her girlfriend from him. He finds out and is shocked at first. In the end, though, her father surprises her by finding his own sexual liberation with the help of erotic film star Annie Sprinkle. This one is not to be missed! more about event >> | Department of Germanic Studies |
| Odyssey Speaker Series Presents Dr. David F. Crew Visualizing Genocide: The Holocaust in Photographs Since 1945 | October 27, 2008 6:30 PM-8:00 PM | Garrison Hall, Room 0.102 | This lecture series draws upon the concept of borders--political, philosophical, cultural, social--to provide Odyssey participants with a fascinating look at some of history's most compelling stories. Organized through the Institute for Historical Studies, this series features dynamic professors from the Department of History more about event >> | Odyssey Personal Enrichment Courses, Institute for Historical Studies, and the Department of History |
| Diaspora: Homelands in Exile | October 29, 2008 7:00 PM | Harry Ransom Center | The Harry Ransom Center presents French photographer Frédéric Brenner in a Focus on Photography event on Wednesday, October 29, at 7 p.m. Since the late 1970s, Brenner has travelled the world photographing Jewish families. His book, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile, was published in 2003. Brenner will discuss his work, a visual anthology of the Jewish Diaspora that spans 25 years and more than 40 countries. Seating is free, but limited. more about event >> | co-sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and the Jewish Community Association of Austin |
| Italian Film ''Suspiria'' | October 30, 2008 8:00 PM | MEZ BO.306 100 (basement) | Suspiria is a 1977 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento, and co-written by Argento and actress Daria Nicolodi, with whom Argento was romantically involved at the time. Nicolodi claims the plot was inspired by an experience of her grandmother's. The setting was originally to be a children's school but was later changed to a dance school for older teens. Suspiria is often considered Argento's finest film and a classic of the horror genre. Entertainment Weekly rated it #18 in its top 25 scariest movies of all time, saying it had "the most vicious murder scene ever filmed", and it was rated #24 on the cable channel Bravo's list of the "100 Scariest Movie Moments". Suspiria is the first film in a trilogy Argento refers to as "The Three Mothers", about evil forces attempting to break through to the earth and wreak merciless havoc. Argento's next film, Inferno (1980), was the second in the trilogy, and the third is The Mother of Tears. In a poll of film critics conducted by the Village Voice, Suspiria was named the 100th greatest film made during the 20th century. The film is also famous among filmmakers as the final feature film to be processed in Technicolor before the processing plant was shut down. from wikipedia more about event >> | Department of French and Italian |