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“Martin Luther King Jr. as Us: the Ghetto Portraits”

“Martin Luther King Jr. as Us: the Ghetto Portraits” Photographer Camilo José Vergara will give the keynote address for the Martin Luther King Day events on campus. Vergara has been a self-appointed “curator of the streets,” documenting murals, signs, and billboards in American inner cities over the past… Continue reading »

“Secrecy and Scandal: Clandestine Lives and Passions in New French Film”

Several recent films from France (in particular “L’Heure d’été,” “Séraphine,” “Home,” “La Fille du RER,” and “La Graine et le mulet”) center on the role of secrecy and scandal in the lives of women and men in contemporary France, from scandalous passions and romance, to secret talents, motives, and ambitions. In these films, both individuals and families struggle to cover their secret failings, confront their secret histories, exploit their secret recipes, and pursue their secret dreams. Continue reading »