Date: Thursday, September 20

Time: 7pm

Location: RSS 235

This evening at 7:00 pm in RSS 235, the World Film Essentials film series will screen Luis Bunuel’s landmark film “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie”. Arguably the finest of his French films, “Discreet Charm” uses a series of unfolding and interwoven dreams to surprise the audience and lampoon greed and misplaced desire. Hope to see you there!

 This film is part of the World Film Essentials series; films from around the world are shown on Thursdays every week through the end of November 

On September 21^st & 22^nd, 2012, the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will host a public history symposium and community event on the topic of “The Fire Every Time: Reframing Black Power Across the Twentieth Century and Beyond”.

Further details including links to the required registration (attendance is free for all CofC students, faculty & staff) and a full conference program are available here: http://avery.cofc.edu/programs/black-power-conference/

Panel Sessions which may be of particular interest to those in African Studies include:

Saturday, Sept. 22 from 11-12:30

PANEL I
Black Power in Transnational Perspective: Latin America & Africa
Location: Education Center, Septima Clark Room 118

Mickie Mwanzia Koster, University of Texas at Tyler
“Black Power the Mau Mau Oath in Kenya, 1952–1960”

Cheryl Sterling, New York University
“Bleque Pau, Black Bailes and the Perfor(n)ormative in Afro-Brazilian Cultural Space”

Reighan A. Gillam, Cornell University
“Black Power in Brazilian Perspective”

Chair and Comment: Assan Sarr, College of Charleston

 Saturday Sept. 22 from 4-5:45pm:

 PANEL III
Pan-African and Transnational Perspectives on Black Power in Sports
Location: Education Center, Septima Clark Room 118

Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
“Black Power and Cricket in Barbados”

Dexter L. Blackman, Loyola Marymount University
“32 Black African Nations Have Voted to Boycott the ’68 Olympics: African Americans, Pan-Africanism, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement to Expel South Africa from the 1968 Olympics”

Michael Ezra, Sonoma State University
“Muhammad Ali’s Main Bout, Inc.: Black Economic Power and the Heavyweight Championship of the World”

Chair and Comment: Chris Lamb, College of Charleston

The Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival at the College of Charleston has established itself over the last six years as an increasingly popular event of the academic year! Charleston is one of the most prominent cultural centers of the southern United States that shares a common bond with Italy. The Italian influence on the establishment of Charleston as a primary tourist destination is particularly important due to the establishment over thirty years ago of the Spoleto Festival USA – born from the concept of Giancarlo Menotti to celebrate the artistic excellence of two worlds in Italy and the US – as a cultural exchange between “due mondi”.

The Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival at the College of Charleston is in its sixth edition. The recurring success of this annual event is based on growing public interest and sponsored by local Italian based companies with the support from the stellar restaurants and world class chefs that have made Charleston an unrivaled culinary destination.

http://delucag.people.cofc.edu/index.html