Limbo is a 25-minute ethnographic and experimental short that immerses viewers in the liminal psyche of its narrator, Alex, a former Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) guerrilla now navigating the fraught transition to civilian l
There will be a reception in Johnson Hall’s McKinnon Global Forum lobby at 6 p.m., followed by the memorial event in the Choi Auditorium at 7 p.m. Invited speakers will share on Dr.
The MAC Department and the Los Angeles and Film class proudly present City of Gold, a documentary film about the life of famed L.A. food critic Jonathan Gold. Join us for a delicious evening where we celebrate the diversity of Los Angeles through its food.
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.