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Special Events 1999-2000 For further information on any of the following events, please click on the appropriate text:
Happy New Year, and welcome to the second season of the Cave Hill Film Society. From the provisional programme which follows this, you'll see that the second season is somewhat longer than the first, with six screenings specifically for the Society, and a further three open to the public as a special mini-season on Ousmane Sembene. We are privileged to have the director himself coming as a visitor to Cave Hill for one week in April, during which three of his films will be shown, followed by discussion with Sembene. Other events in which he will be involved - a book-signing with readings from his novels, a scholarly panel on his work - will be advertised separately. For those of us who saw Camp de Thiaroye, this mini-season will be an opportunity to extend our acquaintance with the work of a celebrated director, whose films are of great significance to African cinema as a whole. We hardly need to point out how rare such opportunities are, and this one has arisen as a result of the personal relationship between Sembene and our colleague, Dr Samba Gadjigo, at whose invitation he is coming from Senegal. The other major event of this semester is the annual Humanities Festival, which this year features a production of George Orwell's Animal Farm. During the Festival, which runs from 3-18 March, there are activities on campus nearly every night. Rather than compete, we have decided to skip the screening date which would have coincided with the Festival, and to allow the season to go on longer. We do however plan to show the recent film version of Animal Farm before the Cave Hill Theatre Workshop production, and we hope that members will enjoy being able to compare the treatment in different media. We have taken note of the many interesting suggestions made by those who attended the business session, especially the idea of a Caribbean Film Season, but we are still hampered by the availability or otherwise of films. We are in the process of ordering and tracking down a number of films, but have made the selection for the second season largely on the basis of what we have readily available. In recognition of the new millenium, we are calling the season Revisions, suggesting a fresh look at some old classics (Catch 22, possibly High Noon) alongside the different visions we gain from foreign language films like Raise the Red Lantern and Lamerica as well as the revisioning we have seen of ideologies in the course of the century (Nazism, Communism, imperialism, etc). The films will again be presented by members and committee members, and may change as circumstances arise. This flexibility means that if you HAVE a film you want to show, you can still come forward and suggest it. Several people have filled in membership forms without necessarily paying to become members. If this applies to you, do please pay up and become part of the Society. If you have paid but have not received a membership card, please see whoever is on the door at the first screening to get one. Don=t forget to let us have your email address, if possible. We look forward to seeing you over the course of the season, and to your ideas for future screenings. As before, all screenings except the Sembene season will be in the Arts Lecture Theatre; doors open at 7.30 pm, start time 7.45 pm. REVISIONS 28 January Raise the Red Lantern. Dir. Zhang Yimou, China. 2 hrs. Colour. Mandarin, sub-titled in English. (BAFTA award winner for Best Foreign Film) A stunningly beautiful film set in 1920s China. A 19 year old girl abandons her education to marry into a powerful and ancient clan where, as the fourth concubine of the old master, she is wholly subjected to tradition and the petty rivalries arising from her position. The film dramatises her search for liberation in the context of suffocating rigidity in which she finds herself, and throws up some surprises, even if there is no happy ending. The presence of the Chinese actress, Gong Li, makes this film unforgettable. 11 February Triumph of the Will. Dir. Leni Riefenstahl. Germany, 1935. B & w. 110 mins. An archival treasure from the Learning Resources Centre, this remarkable documentary is one of the most powerful propaganda films ever made. Riefenstahl was, notoriously, a favourite of Hitler, and entrusted by him with filming the Nuremberg Party Convention in 1934. To do this, she used 30 cameras, equipped with a variety of mounts and lenses, and 120 assistants. This film makes a natural pair with Animal Farm, one promoting and the other satirising a totalitarian regime. It'll be interesting to discuss which of the two is more persuasive. 25 February Animal Farm. Dir. John Stephenson. UK, 1999. Two hours approx. One of the seminal novels of the twentieth century, George Orwell's Animal Farm was a satire of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath by a passionately committed socialist writer. Published in the1930s, its unflinching clarity of vision makes it as relevant today as it ever was. The challenge facing any dramatisation of the original text is, of course, how to represent the animals. This new film version does it through the new medium of 'creature effects,' as seen in the movie Babe, about a talking pig. It is not, however, a soft-centered childrens' entertainment, but retains the dark humour of the original, more Lord of the Flies than Disney. Voices by Ian Holm, Paul Scofield, Julia Ormond and Pete Postlewhaite. 24 March IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH HELLER: Catch 22. !970. Dir. Mike Nichols. 121 mins. >Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Like Animal Farm, Joseph Heller's satirical novel is a cultural marker. It brought a new expression into the language, and was one of the seminal literary events of the 1960s. In the light of Heller's recent death, this is a good moment to reevaluate Nichols's film version, which, in its anti-war message and its surreal absurdity, was a precursor to MASH and the spate of Vietnam movies. Alan Arkin plays Yossarian, the bomber pilot with enough flying hours to get out of World War 2 - except they keep raising the requirement: Catch 22. The movie raises the question of how we distinguish madness and sanity. Is it just a matter of decree sent down by our political masters, or is there any objective reality? Interestingly, the main criticism of the film is that it subordinates satire to its star cast - Orson Welles, Jon Voigt, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen, et al. Judge for yourselves! OUSMANE SEMBENE SEASON: April 3-7. (Please note the earlier time of 7 pm and the venue - lecture Theatre One in the New Teaching Complex, on the left of the roundabout as you come onto campus.) Monday 3 April: Black Girl (La Noire de...) 1966. French, with subtitles. A key study of black-white conflicts in the colonial era, this film explores the experience of a young Senegalese woman taken to France as a maid, to work for a French family. Considered Africa's first dramatic fiction feature, it won the 1966 Jean Vigo prize for best director, the Golden Tanit in Carthage and first prize at the Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar. Wednesday 5 April: Ceddo 1976. Wolof, subtitled. Set in the 17th century, this film examines an aspect of African history frequently taken for granted - the arrival of Islam - and its accomplices - the white slave trade and even the Christian church. Visually beautiful and slow moving, Ceddo is a testament to the existence of an African film language. Like so many of Sembene=s films, it dramatises the resistance of ordinary people to the colonising forces which threaten their way of life. In Senegal its message was perceived as drastically iconclastic, anti-religious and subversive, so much so that the film was banned. Friday April 7: Guelwaar. Wolof. Subtitled Sembene's most recent film, it critiques the role of aid in Africa and shows Africans taking affairs into their own hands, in a radical departure from the usual pieties. 28 April: Lamerica (1994)Dir. Gianni Amelio. English subtitles. 116 mins. Winner of the 1994 Felix Award for European Film of the Year, Lamerica tells the tale of two arrogant and crooked Italian yuppies who descend on post-communist Albania in search of cheap, gullible labour. Needing a native to head their dummy corporation, they find Spiro, a long-term labour-camp inmate with apparently no will of his own. However, when Spiro takes off into deepest Albania, the younger of the two Italians, Gino, is forced to pursue, and soon realises that the locals are not the innocent peasants he had imagined. "A beautifully photographed yet shattering fable of innocence lost," Movie Magazine. 12 May: Open date, with two alternative suggestions: What my mother told me (Trinidad, 56 mins) and High Noon. To be confirmed.
CONFERENCE ON FRANCOPHONE STUDIES AT THE START OF THE MILLENNIUM COLLOQUE SUR LES ETUDES FRANCOPHONES EN L'AN 2000 The Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, is pleased to invite all interested persons to attend and to submit papers at the first International Conference on Francophone Studies in the Caribbean and West Africa to be held at THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS This Interdisciplinary Conference seeks to bring together scholars whose research and/or teaching interests relate to the following broad areas:
We are honoured that Ousmane Sembene, celebrated Senegalese novelist and film-maker, has agreed to address the conference. Deadline for submission of paper proposals: March 15, 2000 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Anthea Morrison (246) 417-4413; E-mail: amorrison@uwichill.edu.bb;
PROGRAMME OF VISIT: MONDAY APRIL 3: TUESDAY APRIL 4: 4 - 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY APRIL 5: 6:30 p.m. THURSDAY APRIL 6: 11:00 a.m. 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY APRIL 7: 4:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY APRIL 8: 11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 7:30 pm. Closing ceremony: Cave Hill's Principal will present a plaque of African Caribbean Unity to the artists.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY / NATIONAL CULTURAL FOUNDATION LECTURE SERIES: 'GENDER AND CARIBBEAN HISTORY' March 17 - April 18, 2000 VENUE: Steel Shed, Queen=s Park, Bridgetown. TIME: Tuesdays at 8.00 p.m.
The celebrated Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare will visit Cave Hill, UWI, from 13-17 March, 2000 to give a public lecture and participate in the Humanities Festival. Much loved and admired in his own country, Osundare has also been the recipient of a number of international awards - the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry (1987), the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (1991) and the Fonlon-Nichols Award for contributions to literature and human rights (1998). The author of a dozen collections of poetry (Songs of the Marketplace (1983), Moonsongs (1988), Midlife (1993), Horses of Memory (1998)), Osundare is also known in Nigeria for his popular newspaper poetry column, and his outspoken critiques of successive military regimes in a leading weekly new's journal. His use of the press as a vehicle for his art and ideas arises from his belief in the importance of communicating with ordinary people, Although Osundare is himself a professor at Nigeria's oldest university, the University of Ibadan, he sees himself in the tradition of the town-crier, the voice which carries a message to the people. Poetry for him is, as he puts it in one of his poems, 'man meaning to man'. To receive a visit from Niyi Osundare, the leading poet of the post-Soyinka generation in Nigeria, is a special privilege. Unique in many ways, he is also representative of the spirit of survival of millions of his fellow countrymen. While many writers, artists and academics were driven into exile by the country's military rulers in the last ten years, Osundare stayed to become a spokesman for the powerless and a witness for the oppressed. His poetry, highly contemporary in its concerns, draws its techniques from a rich Yoruba oral tradition. The public is invited both to his public lecture: 'Poetry and Orality', at 8pm on Thursday March 16, 2000 in the Law Lecture Theatre (LLT), UWI, and to his poetry performances, which will be advertised as part of the Humanities Festival. [For further information, including interviews with Niyi Osundare, please contact Dr Jane Bryce, Dept of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI, Tel: (246) 417-4390 or 417-4402/4/5 or E-mail: jbryce@uwichill.edu.bb]
XIX ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MARCH 8-11, 2000 UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA CALL FOR PAPERS You are invited to submit proposals for the conference TEXTUALITIES/SEXUALITIES IN WEST INDIAN LITERATURE Please submit:
SUBMISSION DEADLINE : JANUARY 15,2000 CONFERENCE FEE: US$30 (if paid by January 15) US$40 (if paid afterwards) All cheques payable to : The University of Guyana ACCOMMODATION: price ranges: Hotels - US$60-120 Guest Houses - US$30-60 More details on available accommodation will be supplied later. TOURS: Guyana has famous and spectacular natural attractions, sites and soft adventure activities in the interior of the country. The conference will set aside a day for tours which you may choose to make. Costs range from US$50-150 (day tours) US$90-200 (over night) MEALS: Meals can be had at a good restaurant for as low as G$500 and at the top restaurants from G$1,000 - G$2,500. TRANSPORTATION COSTS: Airport to G'town - G$2,500 Around the city - G$200-300; City to U.G. Campus - G$500. More details will be supplied later. DEPARTURE TAX: There is an airport Departure Tax of G$2,500. CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE: G$182 = US$1 There are no currency exchange restrictions. The following currencies may be exchanged at any bank or cambio : US$, TT, B'dos, EC, POUNDS STERLING, Can$ PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: Al Creighton, Faculty of Arts, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 101110, Georgetown; Phone: 592-22-3470 (office), 592-2-50908 (home); Fax: 592-2-2490; E-mail: guypri@solutions2000.net Alim Hosein, Head, Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 101110, Georgetown; Phone: 592-22-4812 (home), 592-22-4923, 592-22-3470 (office), 592-22-3424 (office); Fax : 592-22-3596 Donald Sinclair, Faculty of Arts, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 101110, Georgetown; Phone: 592-2-68096 (home), 592-22-4923, 592-22-3424 (office); Fax : 592-2-65177; Derek Archer, Head, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 101110, Georgetown; Phone : 592-22-4923, 592-22-3424 (office), 592-2-60854 (home); Fax: 592-22-3596 HUMANITIES FESTIVAL 2000 Legend: Friday 03rd 7:00p.m. Grand Opening of the Humanities Festival and Lecture : "The Myth of Belonging and Historical Amnesia" by Professor Caryl Phillips - ALT /CY Saturday 04th 7:00p.m. Spanish Dance Workshop & Lime in the 'Quadrangle' Tuesday 07th 9:30a.m. Careers Day - ALT Friday 10th 8:00p.m. Cave Hill Theatre Workshop Production: Animal Farm LT1 Saturday 11th 8:00p.m. Cave Hill Theatre Workshop Production: Animal Farm LT1 Sunday 12th 8:00p.m. Cave Hill Theatre Workshop Production: Animal Farm LT1 Monday 13th 10:00-6:00p.m. Film Festival -BSJ 1:00p.m. History Panel Discussion: "History/ Twistory" Chair: Dr Anthony Phillips - ALT 3:00p.m. History Panel Discussion: "History vs Heritage" Chair: Dr. Karl Watson - MCR 4:30p.m. Roundabout Talk - R 8:00p.m. Lecture: "Caribbean Intellectual Traditions and Barbadian Identity" by Dr Ian Boxill - LLT Court Yard Happening: Music and Dance - CY Tuesday 14th 10:00-6:00p.m. Film Festival - BSJ 1:00p.m. Panel Discussion: "The Poverty of Empiricism: the Role of Theory in the Humanities" Chair: Dr Richard Clarke - ALT 8:00p.m. History Lecture Series: "Gender and the Emancipation Process"by Professor Bridget Brereton - SS Court Yard Happening: Poetry & Storytelling - CY Debate: "Humanities on Trial" - MC Wednesday 15th 10:00a.m. Panel Discussion: "Second Language Acquisition" Chair: Dr Hazel Simmons-McDonald - ALT 10:00-6:00p.m. Film Festival - BSJ 1:00p.m. Panel Discussion: "Making the Grade" Chair: Mr Gerald Rose - ALT 7:30p.m. French Drama Competition - ALT Court Yard Happening - CY Open Mike - CY Thursday 16th 11:00a.m. Panel Discussion: "Knowledge vs Understanding" Chair: Dr Majid Amini - ALT 4:00p.m. Roundabout Talk (Debate) - R 7:30p.m. French Drama Competition - ALT 8:00p.m. Lecture: "Poetry: The Oral Imperative" by Professor Niyi Osundare - LLT Friday 17th 2:00p.m. Panel Discussion: "Careers in Languages" Chair: Dr Ian Craig - ALT 4:00p.m. Roundabout Talk (Debate) - R 5:00p.m. Closing Ceremony & Award to Humanities Scholar - ALT / CY 7:00p.m. French & Spanish Concert - ALT 8:00p.m. Cave Hill Theatre Workshop Production: Animal Farm LT1 Saturday 18th 8:00p.m. Cave Hill Theatre Workshop Production: Animal Farm LT1 Sunday 19th 8:00p.m. Cave Hill Theatre Workshop Production: Animal Farm LT1 There is also an art exhibition on display in the Main Library as well as a 'Video Box' in the LRC where all are invited to express their views (these will be videotaped for replay later).
JANUARY 25-31, 2000 "In Africa an elder who dies is a library that burns" Musician, story-teller, historian, and poet, Lamine is arguably one of the most famous African griots in the world today. Before the encounter with Islam and its Arabic chroniclers and later on with Western expansionism, most African cultures were oral. The official history, the popular memory, and, indeed the entire wealth of African cultures were transmitted from generation to generation not only by the elders but also by the griots (also called the "masters of the word"). Like the Troubadours and Trouveres of Medieval France, the African griots played a major role in "recording" and preserving not only the deeds of the mighty and powerful kings but also of common men and women. As a modem griot, Lamine Konte is also well-known in Africa, Asia, and in the US for his recordings of the works of Senghor, Cesaire, and Danias, the three francopbone founders of the Negritude Movement in Paris in the 30's. PROGRAM OF LAMINE'S VISIT: Thursday, Jan. 27: 12:00- 1:00 pm: Humanities coffee lounge; converstion with the teaching staff. Refreshments will be provided. 4:00-6:00 pm: Conversation with all interested students, particularly those in African and Caribbean Studies. Saturday, Jan. 29: 7:00-9:00 P.M.: Lamine Konte in concert (ALT). This concert is free and open to the public. For further information please contact: Dr. Samba Gadjigo, Tel. (246) 417-4419 or (246) 424-9114 or E-mail: sgadjigo@uwichill.edu.bb This visit is sponsored by the Department of Language, Linguistics, and Literature.
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