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Fashion + Film: 1960’s revisited
March 12th 2010, Friday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
For a full schedule and venues, please download the Program (PDF).
On the fiftieth anniversary of ground-breaking films such as La Dolce Vita, Breathless, and L’Avventura this conference brings together a group of international scholars to revisit this revolutionary cinematic era through the lens of fashion and design. Speakers will include Adriana Berselli, the costume designer who worked with Michelangelo Antonioni on L’Avventura; Stella Bruzzi, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University; Paola Colaiacomo, Professor of English, University of Rome, La Sapienza; Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh; Pat Kirkham, Professor, Center for the Study of Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Bard College; Sam Rohdie, Professor of Film, University of Central Florida; Marilyn Cohen, Assistant Professor of Design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; Vincenzo Maggitti, Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Stockholm University; Sonya Topolnisky, PhD candidate, Center for Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Bard College; Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Associate Professor in Film Studies at Stockholm University; Louise Wallenberg, Director, Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University; Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor of Art History; and Eugenia Paulicelli, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center.
Co-sponsored by Center for Fashion Studies at the University of Stockholm, and Concentration in Fashion Studies, the Italian Specialization, Women’s Studies, Film Studies, Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Jonathan Flatley
"Finally Got the News: Newspapers and Collective Affect from Lenin to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers"
March 12th 2010, Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, President’s Large Conference Room (8201)
Jonathan Flatley is Editor of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, and Associate Professor in the English Department at Wayne State University. His book Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism, was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. He is currently working on two other book projects, one on Andy Warhol, likeness and affect and the other on post-socialist collectivity.
Suggested reading is available here to registered seminar participants.
Beats and Beyond: Documenting the Poets of the 60’s
March 15th 2010, Monday, 6:30pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Join Cecilia Vicuña, Melanie La Rosa, and Henry Ferrini for a conversation about films that bring into cinematic focus the untold histories of a radical literary era. The poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña, editor of The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry and a contributor to El Corno Emplumado, will comment on “El Corno Emplumado - A Story From the Sixties,” which follows its filmmakers on a journey across the United States to Mexico and into the memories of the poets who 40 years earlier had been involved in the bilingual poetry magazine El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn. Melanie La Rosa will discuss “This Bird Flies Backward,” her work-in-progress about the life and work of poet Diane di Prima; and Henry Ferrini will talk about his “Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place.” Excerpts of films will be screened.
Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages and the Doctoral Students Council
Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form
March 16th 2010, Tuesday, 6:30pm, Rooms 9206-9207
Join poet and editor Annie Finch, along with contributors to the anthology Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form, for a lively discussion of how contemporary poets use and understand forms. The conversation, like the book, will juxtapose traditional formalism and Flarf, the American long poem and native Hawaiian poetry, rhyme in Paul Muldoon and textual variability in New Media poetry, Susan Howe and Lucinda Roy, jazz and Asian American poetics, and much more. Featuring Marilyn Hacker, Patricia Smith, Tyler Hoffman, and Stefania deKenessey. Moderated by Corey Frost.
Co-sponsored by the Poetics Group
Only a God Can Save Us: Martin Heidegger and the Third Reich
Film Screening and Discussion
March 17th 2010, Wednesday, 6:00pm, Proshansky Auditorium
Join us for the American premiere of the documentary Only A God Can Save Us, a critical examination of Martin Heidegger’s thought and actions during the Third Reich. Fifteen years in the making, the film reveals how essential elements of Heidegger’s philosophy led him to become an enthusiastic supporter of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist revolution. The film also addresses his long post-war silence about the Holocaust and his reluctance to make a public apology. Following the screening we will host a discussion with filmmaker Jeffery Van Davis and Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History, the Graduate Center.
Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in History
