Upcoming Events: 2008-2009
(Whitney Humanities Center address is 53 Wall Street, New Haven)
Lecture Series
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Monday, Sept. 22, 5pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Television as Provocation: Rethinking Media History, William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 5pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm. 102
Any platform. Any media. Anywhere: Targeting Contemporary Television's Dispersed Audience, John Caldwell, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 5pm, location TBA
William Boddy, Baruch College
Tuesday, March 24, 5pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Heather Hendershot, City University of New York Graduate Center
Tuesday, April 7, 5pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Anna Everett, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tuesday, April 21, 5pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Anna McCarthy, New York University
(check back for more information on indivual lectures)
Events
September 18-19, 2008
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
December 4-7, 2008, Conference, Whitney Humanities Center
"Ouvrir Bazin/Opening Bazin"
This conference will honor André Bazin, indisputably the cinema’s most influential philosopher-critic, who died November 11, 1958, fifty years ago. This anniversary moment has fueled what has already been a massive resurgence of interest in his ideas over the past decade.
The conference is in two parts; the first half in Paris from November 27-29 and the second half at Yale from December 4-7. The Yale portion will focus on the consequences of his writings in films, theory, and the arts, including the current situation of digital media. Around twenty speakers will deliver 30 minute talks. A few key films, and at least one filmmaker in Bazin’s tradition, will enliven the proceedings. More information and a schedule will follow.
