Events
Past Events
May 2018
Three Events with Marina Warner
Please join us for three events with Marina Warner, May 1-3, 2018. Tuesday, May 1, 4:00 pm, IHC McCune (HSSB 6020) Lecture: Sanctuary & Literature: Words on the Move http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-sanctuary-and-literature-words-on-the-move/ Wednesday, May 2, 7:00 pm: Pollock Theater Screening: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1928, 60') A discussion to follow with Marina Warner and Peter Bloom (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/adventures-prince-achmed/ Thursday, May 3, 2-5 pm, Phelps 6206c Graduate seminar: A Childhood in Cairo: Making It Up with the Past Please sign up with Dustin…
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Media Industries in Global Frames: Craft, Collaboration, and Competition
Media Industries in Global Frames is an international colloquium organised by the Lignan University Centre for Cinema Studies (CCS), which is launching a new research cluster on media industries research. In this event we want to find common pathways for industry studies by focusing on craft, collaboration and competition.
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June 2018
Greenscreen 2018 Film Premiere
GreenScreen 2017 trailer from Carsey-Wolf Center on Vimeo.
Find out more »Lukács and the World: Rethinking Global Circuits of Cultural Production
It is again time to take serious account of the thought of Georg Lukács. Thanks, no doubt, to the persistence of Frederic Jameson’s defense, the waning of intellectual currents generally hostile to Lukács including certain strains of American cultural studies, post-Marxism, and poststructuralism, as well as the mounting pressure being brought to bear on modernism as an unproblematically valorized cultural-historical category, the last few years have seen something of a renaissance in Lukács studies. From special editions of journals, ambitious…
Find out more »July 2018
Iraq Front & Center: Fifteen Years On
This symposium examines the stakes for Iraqis fifteen years since the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. It foregrounds Iraqi perspectives at a critical moment by bringing together humanities-based scholars and practitioners in history, fiction, medicine, film and journalism with rich expertise in Iraq, its diaspora and its archives. This symposium is made possible through the support of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Thursday May 10 PANEL 1 1:30 - 4:00pm McCune Conference Room…
Find out more »September 2018
Shakespeare on Film: Hamlet
Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948) is celebrated for dramatizing the turmoil of its central character through means of expression unique to cinema. Borrowing conventions both from German cinema of the 1920s and from contemporaneous classical Hollywood cinema, the film streamlines the play in order to foreground Hamlet’s subjectivity, written largely in the gloomy recesses of Elsinore. Adapted and directed by its star, Olivier’s film remains a touchstone both in the cinematic treatment of Hamlet and in the history of Shakespeare on film. Mark Rose (English, UCSB)…
Find out more »October 2018
In the Last Days of the City
In Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the City (2016), Khalid Abdalla plays a filmmaker from downtown Cairo who struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while the world changes around him—from personal love and loss to the fall of the Mubarak regime. Friends send him footage and stories from Berlin, Baghdad, and Beirut, creating a powerful, multilayered meditation on togetherness, the tactile hold of cities, and the meaning of homeland. Shot in the two…
Find out more »Frankenstein Afterlives: Mary Shelley
The Carsey-Wolf Center opens its Frankenstein: Afterlives series with Haifaa Al-Mansour’s 2017 film, which explores the life of the young writer who gave the world Frankenstein. Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer who is fascinated with the legacy of her famous deceased mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and determined to make her mark on the world. When she meets the brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth), she embarks…
Find out more »Harlan County, USA
This film screening is part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective. In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky. After the coal miners at the Brookside Mine join a union, the owners refuse the labor contract. Once the miners start to strike, the owners of the mine respond by hiring scabs to fill the jobs of the regular employees. The strike, which lasts more…
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