Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
Occident (2002)
Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Discussion with Filmmaker Cristian Mungiu
Entrance Fee:
$3 students, $5 others
tickets sold at the door
Date: Saturday September 18, 2004
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Location: 10-250
See the program from the event for additional details, including screenings, times, and locations.
Date: September 24-25, 2004
Location: MIT
Introduced by Eva Hoffman
Date: Monday October 4, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 32-155
Introduced by Eva Hoffman
Date: Tuesday October 5, 2004
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Boston University, Photonics Center, Floor 2
A Lecture and Demonstration in Chinese and English by Yonglong Qin (Professor of Calligraphic Art and Etymology Beijing Normal University)
Date: Monday October 25, 2004
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Location: 32-141
A mi Madre le Gustan las Mujeres (My Mother Likes Women) (2002)
Directed by Inés París
Followed by a Conversation with the Director and Screen Writer
Film in Spanish with English subtitles.
Discussion with the Director in Spanish and English. Translation provided.
Date: Thursday November 18, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 56-114
Reveil: Waking Up French
Directed by Ben Levine
Free Admission
Filmmaker Ben Levine will facilitate discussion following the screening.
Date: Thursday December 9, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 2-105
- Screening of Agnieszka Holland film "Europa Europa"
- Screening of Agnieszka Holland film "Shot in the Heart"
- Screening of "Julie Walking Home" and discussion with Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland
- Roundtable Discussion: "Beyond Exile: Central European Writing and Film"
With Eva Hoffman, Charity Scribner, Susan Suleiman, and Dubravka Ugresic - Andrei Codrescu, "From Metaphor to Journalism: The Sorrows of Scribblers Without Walls"
Co-sponsored by the Ann F. Friedlaender Chair of the Humanities - Dubravka Ugresic, "Gender and Transition in Post-War Yogoslavia"
Followed by an informal discussion with members of the MIT community
MIT Brown Bag Series, co-sponsored with the Program in Women's Studies
Light refreshments will be provided
The second in a series of annual symposia sponsored by the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies and Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT.
Schedule of Events:
Thursday, October 21, 2004 - Monday, October 25, 2004
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Date: Thursday October 21, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 4-270
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Date: Thursday October 22, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 4-237
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Date: Saturday October 23, 2004
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 10-250
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Date: Saturday October 23, 2004
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 4-237
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Date: Saturday October 23, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Stata Center, 32-155
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Date: Monday October 25, 2004
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Location: 14E-304
In Search of Don Quixote was a one-time student trip to Spain during July 2005 to coincide with the festivities celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Miguel de Cervantes’ literary masterpiece Don Quixote. The two-week expedition through Castilla la Mancha was organized by two Lecturers in Spanish with the intention of serving as a impetus to update the Elementary Spanish curriculum at MIT. Armed with video and still-image cameras, the students documented their entire journey through the Spanish countryside, effectively capturing the essence of Spanish culture. These primary resources are currently being complied in to an interactive medium to transform the Elementary Spanish course of study that is customized to the MIT student.
See pictures from the trip on the In Search of Don Quixote page!
Perikles Monioudis, Writer-in-Residence at MIT
"In the Ether. A Poetological Exploration of Science and a Scientific Exploration of Poetics"
In Monioudis' talk, poetics will be revived as a distinct category for creating knowledge in the space between the exact sciences on the one hand and the humanistic sciences on the other. The term ether has been used in very diverse contexts, i.e. in physics, philosophy, theology, and poetics. All attempts to define the ether, "the fifth element" as the Greeks called it diverge greatly. According to Aristotle, ether is the heavenly Ur-matter in which all planets move, a notion that René Descartes expanded on, postulating that ether penetrates everything. Whereas Einstein denied the existence of the physical ether, quantum physics revived the term again. Monioudis introduces someone living in the ether: a Poet and Telegrapher at sea.
Perikles Monioudis was born in Switzerland and lives in Berlin. His many novels, novellas and collections of short stories have been translated into several languages and have received many prizes, including the Swiss Writers‚ Association Prize and the Swiss Schiller Foundation Prize. Monioudis is teaching German Literature in the FL&L department this spring semester.
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM
Location: E51-191
