Calendar - Fall 2008
November 3 - 4, 2008
5:00
pm, Nadine McGuire – Black Box Theatre
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett with Rick Cluchey of the San Quentin Drama Workshop
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited, tickets are available at the France-Florida Research Institute in 157 Dauer Hall in the afternoon (12:30-4:30PM) and at the School of Theatre and Dance Reception desk at the Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavillon. For more information, visit www.TheatreInPrisons.org
November 17 - 18, 2008
The Center for African Studies and the France-Florida Research Institute are pleased to announce the visit of the celebrated and controversial Senegalese filmmaker Joseph Gai Ramaka.
- Monday, November 17, 5:30 pm, CSE Room E221
Screening of Karmen
Followed by Q and A session with Ramaka - Tuesday November 18, 2:00 pm, 404 Grinter Hall
Discussion with Ramaka of two documentaries Et si Latif avait raison and Plan Jaxaay
Joseph Gai Ramaka is the founder of Les Ateliers de l’Arche, an independent production and distribution company in France. In September 1997 he was awarded the Lion d’argent in Venice for his medium-length film Ainsi soit-il. In 2001 he presented the feature film Karmen, at the Cannes Film Festival, the Sundance film festival, and at the 2002 Los Angeles Pan African Film & Arts Festival Awards where he received the “Best Feature”.
Award. His documentary, Et si Latif avait raison (2006) won the Best Documentary Award at the 2006 Montreal Vues d’Afrique Festival. His latest documentary is Plan Jaxaay (2007).
These events are free and open to the public.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11:00
am - 1:00 pm, Pugh Hall Room 210
Emmanuel Levinas, 'Being Jewish' and The Time and the Other", a symposium with Jonathan Judaken and Galili Shahar. Session chair, Dragan Kujundzic. Light refreshments will be served. Made possible through the Gary Gerson Lecture Series Endowment with additional funds from the Posen Foundation and the France Florida Research Institute.
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Pugh Hall, Room 210
Emmanuel Levinas, 'The Trace of the Other', presented by the Posen Seminar Reading Group. Session Chair, Nina Caputo. Light refreshments will be served. Made possible through the Gary Gerson Lecture Series Endowment with additional funds from the Posen Foundation and the France Florida Research Institute.
