"The Clock and The Tree of Life: Contemporary Cinema Art," Pittsburgh Film Studies Colloquium

Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and
Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts,

ASC and the Japanese language program at Pitt are offering a series of Japanese language tables on campus for students of Japanese language. This session on “Practicing your listening with Japanese websites” is designed for all level of Japanese language students. You will be exploring different Japanese websites and try to understand the contexts. In this session:
• You will be introduced a cultural website where you can practice listening skills.
• You will explore some short Japanese clips (TV commercials) and see how much you can understand the contexts

Work-in-Progress Series, "Commemorating Communist East Germany in the Berlin Republic," Katrin Mascha (ABD)

Work-in-Progress Series, "Soccer, its Fans and its Nation in German Literature and Film," Gavin Hicks (ABD)

The Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht (The “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938)

Survivor’s Account by Ruth Drescher
Music by Susanne Ortner-Roberts (clarinetist)
Readings by Pitt Students

This program is made possible with the support of the Jack Sittsamer Holocaust Studies
Enrichment Fund in the Jewish Studies Program.

Matteo Galli, who teaches at the University of Ferrara, is one of the foremost German Studies scholars in Italy and is also an expert on German cinema. He has published books on Elias Canetti, Thomas Mann, and E. T. A Hoffmann, and he has translated works by Jens Sparschuh and Uwe Timm, among others. He is also the editor of a major volume on the history of German cinema, Da Caligari a Good Bye, Lenin! (2004).

During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the Portuguese court collected and commissioned objects of art from artists working in Sierra Leone. The patronage of West African art formed an important part of the visual culture of the Portuguese court and was integral to the king’s larger artistic and cultural program intended to enhance his prestige and to promote his imperial ideology to other European courts.

The events collectively described as the “Arab Spring” are marked, at the local level, by the invention of novel modes of social and political action. On a transnational scale, these events are reshaping global alliances and raising pressing questions about the relationships between international political institutions and social movements driving change in North Africa and the Middle East. In the context of this rapidly evolving political landscape, this conference considers the implications of the Arab Spring for European politics and cultures.

Unveiled (Fremde haut)

Director Angelina Maccarone (2005)

Part of the: QUEER & FEMINIST FILM, Public Film Series at the University of Pittsburgh
When: January 9 – April 9, 2012
Cost: Free!

All screenings are open to the public. Bring your friends!

For more information about the series: http://pittqueerfemfilm.wordpress.com/public-film-series/
To learn about the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428672/

Cristina Stancioiu, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor (Oklahoma State University)