Next Event:
University Film Series: The Spirit of the Beehive/ El Espíritu de la Colmena
Wednesday, September 25th, 6:00 PM, Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, PAC 134
FREE and Open to the Public!
95 minutes. Directed by Victor Erice. (Spain, 1973)
Often cited as one of the most important Spanish films ever made, The Spirit of the Beehive is a film that mediates on multiple levels of hauntings. Imagery from Frankenstein haunts Ana, a young girl living in post-Civil War Spain, while the fascist regime of Francisco Franco (1936-1975) itself envelopes and haunts the film: Erice managed to release a slow-paced, arthouse film during the last years of the regime and encoded, through a compelling collection of symbols that deftly criticized the repressive political climate of Spain. The film was controversially awarded first prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and since its release, film luminaries such as Akira Kurosawa and Guillermo del Toro have cited it as a favorite and influential film. Read more...
Works-in-Progress: Troy Jollimore, "Love and Truth"
Friday, October 4th, 12:00 PM, PAC 113
Troy Jollimore earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1999. He is the author of three philosophical books, including Love’s Vision and On Loyalty, and the editor of The Virtue of Loyalty, published earlier this year. Read more...
Visiting Scholar: Megan Corbin, "Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony and the Role of the Material in Remembering the Traumatic Past"
Thursday, October 17th, 5:30 PM, ZOOM
*This talk is sponsored by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council(opens in new window).
Register in advance for the Zoom webinar here.
How can the material world help survivors of trauma narrate their experiences? How can an object stand in for the lost subject and create meaning? How does the surviving subject’s relationship to the material world shift during their “limit experience”? And how can this changed relationship be communicated to others and to the future? Drawing from the research presented in her book Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-dictatorship, this talk explores these questions through examining the cultural production of survivors of the dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay in the second-half of the twentieth century. Read more...
Digital Humanities Series: Erin McCarthy, "Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse"
Wednesday, October 23rd, 5:00 PM, ZOOM
Zoom Link: https://csuchico.zoom.us/j/88561594318?pwd=MW5CZHpVRHUyOERSRW1WOVpOc09rZz09
This talk will provide an introduction to “STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700,” a digital project funded by the European Research Council and headed by Dr. McCarthy. Whereas scholars have tended to treat manuscripts primarily as case studies, STEMMA seeks to identify patterns and trends at scale. Read more...
University Film Series: Coco
Wednesday, October 30th, 6:00 PM, Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, PAC 134
FREE and open to faculty, staff, and students of Chico State.
105 minutes. Directed by Lee Unkrich. (United States, 2017)
The story follows a 12-year-old boy named Miguel who is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead, where he seeks the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather to return him to his family and reverse their ban on music. Read more...
Works-in-Progress: Michelle Rose
Friday, November 1st, 12:00 PM, PAC 113
Michelle Rose is faculty in the Political Science and Criminal Justice Department.
Visiting Scholar: Mari N. Crabtree, "The Past that Stalks Us: The Black South, Haunting, and the Ghosts of Lynching"
Thursday, November 7th, 5:30 PM, ZOOM
*This talk is sponsored by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council(opens in new window).
Register in advance for the Zoom webinar here.
In this talk, Mari N. Crabtree explores the myriad ways in which haunting provides a generative lens for understanding how the past often stalks around the present but also how Black southerners lived through and beyond the trauma of lynching. Read more...
Works-in-Progress: Jed Wyrick
Friday, December 6th, 12:00 PM, PAC 113
Jed Wyrick is faculty in the Comparative Religion and Humanities Department.
