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Border Crossings: Rethinking Silent Cinema February 9-10, 2008 Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall University of California at Berkeley Panels are free and open to the public Register Now! A conference on silent cinema as a traveling technology that re-envisions race, gender, nation, and empire. A dialogue between the early film cultures of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. In conjunction with a series on Japanese-American silent film actor Sessue Hayakawa at the Pacific Film Archive. Keynote by Jennifer Bean (University of Washington). Other participants include Lauren Rabinovitz (University of Iowa), Shelley Stamp (UCSC), Priya Jaikumar (USC) and Michael Baskett (University of Kansas). Sponsored by Film Studies, Townsend Center, Graduate Film Working Group, Department of Rhetoric", Department of Scandinavian, Department of German, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Department of Gender & Women's Studies, and Beatrice Bain Research Group. For more information, email rethinking.silent.cinema@gmail.com. |
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