CENTER FOR VISUAL CULTURE TO EMPHASIZE FILM AND VIDEO
IN FALL COLLOQUIUM SERIES

As Bryn Mawr's Film Studies Program enters its first full academic year, the Center for Visual Culture's fall colloquium series will show off some of the interdisciplinary program's strengths. The series of talks, which take place on Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Thomas 224, "will have a range of topics, as it always does," Center Director Lisa Saltzman explains, "but the fall schedule has a special emphasis on film and video topics, to celebrate the formal addition of film studies to the College's curriculum."

Saltzman will open the series on Sept. 15 with "From a History of Projection to a Projection of History," a lecture drawn from her work in a forthcoming book titled Mnemonic Devices: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art. Focusing on Krzysztof Wodiczko, an artist who creates ephemeral works by projecting images on monumental architecture, Saltzman will examine ways contemporary artists have transformed some of the oldest techniques of visual representation.

Associate Professor of English Jonathan Kahana, who directs the film studies program, will give one of the talks in the fall series. Other film-studies faculty who will participate include Sharon Ullman, of the History Department; Azade Seyhan, of German; Jennifer Horne, of English; and Steven Levine, of History of Art. Haverford Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Yiman Wang will contribute a lecture, as will scholars from Old Dominion University, the University of Miami School of Architecture and Wheaton College, and the executive director of Philadelphia's Slought Foundation for contemporary art and theory. A complete schedule is below.

• Sept. 15: "From a History of Projection to a Projection of History," Lisa Saltzman, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

• Sept. 22: "Melodrama's Other: Entrapment and Escape in the Films of Tom Tykwer," Heidi Schlipphacke, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Old Dominion University

• Sept. 29: "Toward New Towns in America: The Sources of New Urbanism," Jean-François Lejeune, School of Architecture, University of Miami

• Oct. 6: "New Woman — Modern Girl — Film Actress: The Case of Shanghai," Yiman Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Haverford College

• Oct. 20: "Unbecoming the President," Jonathan Kahana, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College

• Oct. 27: "Brain Games: The Military, Hollywood and Brainwashing in Cold War America," Sharon Ullman, Department of History, Bryn Mawr College

• Nov. 3: "Introducing Slought: Art Voluptuous and Life Ascetic," Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Senior Curator, Slought Foundation, and Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

• Nov. 10: "The German Road Movie in Über-setzung: Transport and Translation," Azade Seyhan, Department of German, Bryn Mawr College

• Nov. 17: "Cosimo's Black Widow: Recuperative Narratives and Other Crutches in Early Modern Florence," Allison Levy, Department of Art History, Wheaton College

• Dec. 1: "Cinema of Decay: Lyrical Nitrate and Decasia," Jennifer Horne, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College

• Dec. 8: "Maquillage," Steven Z. Levine, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

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