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| Title | Date & Time | Location | Description | Additional Info | Sponsor |
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| 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. | Department of Germanic Studies | |
| 1968: A Global Perspective/ An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Texas at Austin held in tandem with the Fifth Annual Graduate Comparative Literature Conference | October 10-12, 2008 | Texas Union and Mezes Hall | 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. | 1968: A Global Perspective  | see website |
| 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! | Department of Germanic Studies |