Sponsored by CLCS and the GSO, with support from the Humanities Institute.

Organized by:
Lilla Töke, Graduate Student,Department of CLCS
Stephen Szolosi, Graduate Student, Department of CLCS

12:40pm - 2:00pm,Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The Humanities Institute

Lilla Toke, Graduate Student, CLCS, "Nervous Laughter and the Trauma of the Holocaust"

Adrian Perez-Melgosa, Lecturer, CLCS, "Dancing in the Pan-American Cabaret: Archeology of a Cinematic Common Place and its Role in Hemispheric Hegemony"

12:40pm - 2:00pm,Wednesday, March 9, 2005
The Humanities Institute

Hans Staats, Graduate Student, CLCS, "Jose Padhila's Bus 174: Intention in the System of Representation"

Robert Chi, Assistance Professor, CLCS, "China's Taiwan: Cinema and Inter-Nationality"

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, March 30, 2005
The Humanities Institute

Marlene DuBois, Gruduate Student, CLCS, "Winedrinking in the Poetry of Ibn al-Farid"

William Chittick, Professor, AAAS, "The Imagery of Wine in Early Persian Sufism"

12:40pm - 2:00pm,Wednesday, April 13, 2005
The Humanities Institute

Agnieska Skrodzka-Bates, Graduate Student, CLCS, "History From Inside Out: The Magical Cinema of Jan Jakub Kolski"

E. Ann Kaplan, Professor, CLCS & English, "Desire, Shame and Trauma in Inter-ratial Cinema"

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, May 4, 2005
The Humanities Institute

Maya Shanbhag, Graduate Student, CLCS, "Bodily Betrayals: Rushide's Shame, Freud's Dora, and the Case of the Symptom"

Krin Gabbard, Professor, CLCS, "The Sexiest Man Alive: Richard Gere's Male Trouble"

1:00pm-2:00pm,Wednesday, October 13, 2004
The Humanities Institute

Stephen Szolosi, Graduate stuent,Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, "Paul AusterÁ's City of Glass A Labyrinth of Failed Detection"

Clyde Lee Miller, Professor,Philosophy, "Literal and Metaphorical in Cusan Conjecture"

1:00 -2:00pm, Wednesday, October 27, 2004
The Humanities Institute

Xiaoning Lu, Graduate Student, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, "Shining Red Star: Zhang Ruifang and the Transformation of Chinese Cinema"

Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood, Assistant Professor, European Languages and Literature, "Male Trouble: Masculinity in Recent Polish Cinema"

12:40pm -2:00pm, Wednesday, November 10, 2004
The Humanities Institute

Ching-Ling Wo, Graduate Student,Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, "Quasi-Object as Counter Memory: China and the Material History of Simulation"

Ira Livingston, Associate Professor, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, "What is Visual Complexity? The Radical Middleground"

12:40pm - 2:00pm,Wednesday, December 3, 2004
The Humanities Institute

David Anshen, Graduate Student, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, "Alphaville: A Neorealist, Science Fiction Fable About Hollywood"

Sandy Petrey, Professor, "Balzac's Unknown Masterpiece and the Real in Realism"

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