Past Events
Speakers): Sarah Farmer (University of California, Irvine)
Being one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, widely-acclaimed "West Side Story" is set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s and depicts the conflict…
Speakers): Vladimir Khazan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Speakers): Dr. Marie-Claude Felton (McGill University)
Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick stare in Alexander Payne’s award-winning satire about an election for student government president.
Speakers): Leah Feldman (University of Chicago)
Black Bread, set in the war-ravaged Catalan countryside of the early 1940's, tells the story of a local man accused of murder whose son sets out to find the truth.
Something is wrong in the village. There is some rot in the foundation. This wrongness is first sensed in a series of incidental "accidents." Then the maiming of a child takes place.
Speaker(s): Siobhan Phillips