From: Cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan cultures [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Heather Latimer [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 April 2011 13:42
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Subject: [RICC] RICC Event: E. Ann Kaplan June 7, 5pm Cornerhouse
Dear All,
The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) is pleased to be sponsoring two events by Professor E. Ann Kaplan on June 7th and 8th, 2011.
E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directs The Humanities Institute. She has written widely on media, cinema, and women's studies, and is the author of numerous books, including Women in Film: Both Sides of the Camera, Women in Film Noir, Motherhood and Representation, Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (co-edited with Ban Wang), Feminism and Film, and Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature.
I know June is a busy month, so please mark your calendars now for the following:
1) Public Talk / Film Screening at Cornerhouse:
Dystopian Fictions of Trauma Future-Tense: Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men
Tue 7 June, 5.00pm
Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men touched a scholarly nerve that bypassed P.D. James’ novel from which the film is adapted. In this talk, E. Ann Kaplan looks at this unusual academic attention to a commercial film, accounting for it through the theoretical issues scholars drew out from the film. She then addresses specific concerns with the film that arise from her research in trauma studies, and from a broader concern with increasing fictions about future human-produced catastrophe.
Followed by:
Chidren of Men
Tue 7 June, 6.30pm
Dir Alfonso Cuaron / 2006 / 109 mins
Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Michael Caine
£7.50/5.50 via Cornerhouse website.
2) Master Class with E. Ann Kaplan
Wed 8 June 10.00am-12.00pm
All Postgrads and Postdocs welcome. Further details and location TBC.
Many thanks,
Heather
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Dr. Heather Latimer
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
English and American Studies/
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture
University of Manchester
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