This year’s show features a selection of the best of the best from the first 16 years of the festival, including a brand new 4K digital restoration (from the original film negatives) of Hasta Los Huesos by Rene Castillo, Michaël Dudok de Wit’s poignant Oscar-winning Father and Daughter, Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis’s Cannes Palme d’Or winning film, When the Day Breaks, and Steven Woloshen’s direct-painting-on film, among others.
Jonathan Judaken is the Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis.
Hannah Tzuberi is a researcher of contemporary Jewry with a focus on post-Holocaust (German) nation-building and the moral economies underlying the politicking of the present.
This talk will focus on the embrace of the figure of the Jew in post-unification German political discourse and this embrace's foundational importance for German political identity. By outlining the contours of the state's memory- and revival-politics, it will argue that the defense of the figure of the Jew now enables both the dismantling of democratic rights and the non-recognition of human rights.
Sonali Thakkar is Associate Professor of English at NYU and the author of The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought (Stanford 2023).
This presentation challenges the previous understanding of the relationship between the Mongol Yuan dynasty and the Kingdom of Annam (northern Vietnam) in the 13th and 14th centuries. It argues that the perception of continuity in diplomatic relations between the two nations, as portrayed in documents following Chinese literary conventions, overlooks the multilingual nature of the Mongol Empire.
Justin Torres comes to campus to read from his recent National Book Award-winning novel Blackouts, and to discuss it with Writer-in-Residence Chekwube Danladi. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.
The Media Arts and Culture Department and the Womxn of Cinema and Television Club present a screening of the new political sci fi thriller I.S.S. (2024) followed by a Q&A with director and Oxy alum Gabriela Cowperthwaite '93.
The Media Arts and Culture Department and the Womxn of Cinema and Television Club present a screening of the sci-fi thriller Gray Matter followed by a Q&A with Oxy alum and 2023 Project Greenlight winner
There will be 22 short films shown that were made by Oxy students. Live entertainment will also be part of the Fest. Reception begins at 6pm on the Choi Patio. Film screening begins at 7pm. Formal attire requested.