Fall 2001 - Spring 2002
Claude Hagège
"Endangered Languages: Birth, Death and Resurrection"
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001
Time : 7:00 pm
Location: 4-231
Claude Hagège
"English as a Global Language: Real or Imagined Threat?"
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: 2-105
Lëila Sebbar
"La Mémoire Algérienne de la France" (Talk in French)
Date: November 2, 2001
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: 4-237
Mémoires d'Immigrés, l'héritage maghrébin (France, 1997)
Directed by Yamina Benguigui
Date: October 31, 2001
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 4-231
Amitav Ghosh
Date: Thursday October 25, 2001
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 4-163
Ahdaf Soueif
The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar
Date: Tuesday November 13, 2001
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: E51-095
Ilan Stavans
Date: Thursday November 15, 2001
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 4-231
The Family Game (Kazoku gêmu) (Japan,1983)
Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita
Date: October 25, 2001
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: 10-250
September 29, 2001: Shakespeare Wallah (Ivory-Merchant)
October 3, 2001: Shatranj Ke Khilari (Satyajit Ray)
October 18, 2001: Genesis (Mrinal Sen)
November 8, 2001: 36 Chowringhee Lane (Aparna Sen)
Co-sponsored by CB/BS and the MIT International Film Club
Time: 8:00pm
Location: 4-237
José Carvajal
José Carvajal is a Dominican author and editor of the International Literary News Agency and digital newsletter, Librusa. In addition to writing poetry, short stories and a novel, Mr. Carvajal has worked as a journalist and editor for international news agencies, television and newspapers. His latest publication is Vanidad aparte, a collection of interviews with Latin American writers.
Talk in Spanish
Date: February 27, 2002
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 4-163
Ibrahim Warde
Ibrahim Warde, who currently lives in the Boston area, is a journalist for “Le Monde Diplomatique.” He has written many articles relating to the United States on issues such as finance, universities and the September 11 events. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of Islamic Finance in the Global Economy (2000), “Le Modèle anglo-saxon en question” (1997) and co-author, with, Marie Agnès Combesque, of Mythologies américaines (1996).
Co-Sponsored by MISTI-France and Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
Date: March 12, 2002
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: E38-714
Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez, author of Hunger of Memory, 1982 and Days of Obligation, 1992, is an editor at the Pacific News Service in San Francisco and a contributing editor for Harper ’s magazine and the Sunday Opinion Section of the Los Angeles Times. He appears regularly as an essayist on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. In his new memoir/essay, BROWN: The Last Discovery of America (Viking), Rodriguez offers a compelling meditation on what he calls the “browning of America,” in particular, what Hispanics mean within the whole of American culture
A book signing will take place after the lecture
Date: March 19, 2002
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 4-163
Co-sponsored by the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
Geneviève Sellier
Geneviéve Sellier is Maitre Assistant at the University of Caen, Normandy, where she is the director of research in film studies. She is co-editor of L'exclusion des femmes, masculinité et politique dans la culture au XX e siecle, and Femmes de pouvoir, mythes et fantasmes, both published in 2001.
Talk in French
Date: April 8, 2002
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: 14E-304
Co-sponsored by MISTI-France
Ambroise Kom
Talk in French
Date: April 18, 2002
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 2-105
Co-sponsored by MISTI France
José F.A. Oliver, Max Kade Distinguished Writer-In-Residence at MIT, poet, and singer
Niño Pantaleón, Flamenco guitarist
Date: April 27, 2002
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Killian Hall
Co-sponsored by the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
Liru Lian, Jia Jianguo, and Jingshou Wang
Translation and commentary
Date: May 8, 2002
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Killian Hall
Co-sponsored by the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
