Spring 2012
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Earth Matters on Stage Playwrights' Festival and Symposium (EMOS) 2012May 31-June 3 2012, Carnegie Mellon University Prof. Wendy Arons The mission of Earth Matters on Stage (EMOS) Ecodrama Playwrights' Festival is to call forth and nurture new dramatic works that respond to and interpret the ecological crisis. |
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Conflict KitchenWednesday, April 18th, 5:00pm-6:30 PM Please join Associate Professor of Art Jon Rubin and Culinary Director Robert Sayre for a discussion on Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. |
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"Director John Sayles: Critical Realism and New Left Cinema"Monday, April 16, 4:30 PM, Giant Eagle Auditorium David R. Shumway |
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Cipriana Jurado HerreraMonday April 9, 4:30-5:50 PM, Porter Hall 100 Cipriana Jurado Herrera, a human rights activist from Ciudad Juárez who recently received political refugee status in the United States due to her persecution by Mexican military and security forces. |
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"A Dance to the Music of Bernard Herrmann: A Figurative Dance Suite."
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Animation SymposiumErin Cosgrove, Animator |
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El Sicario
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Fiction / NonfictionFilmmaker, writer and activist Tom Kalin will discuss the tension between fact and fiction in his films. Gregg Hall (Porter Hall 100) |
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“Signs of Violence: Messaging, Media and Politics in Mexico’s ‘Drug War’”Paul K. Eiss Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A |
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Typescript Books and the Moment of MicroformLisa Gitelman, Associate Professor, Departments of English and of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University |
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New Media/News Media: How Technology is Changing the Aesthetics of the NewsPanel Discussion Co-led by Kathy Newman, English professor, and James Duesing, professor of Animation and video artist |
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Out of RubbleAndrew W. Mellon Professor of Art Susanne Slavick discusses her recent book and curatorial project on the aftermath of war. |