Commencement 2017 - Reception History
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Commencement reception for History Seniors and their families.
Axinn Center Winter Garden
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Commencement 2016 - Reception History
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Commencement reception for History Seniors and their families.
Axinn Center Winter Garden
Clare Cushman - Supreme Court historian: 5 Things You Didn't Know about the Supreme Court
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As Director of Publications at the Supreme Court Historical Society, Clare Cushman oversees a media program designed to educate the public about the history of the Supreme Court.
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Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival
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Pixote (Hector Babenco, 1981): Subtitled “The Law of the Weak” and influenced by neorealism, this film portrays the life of a young boy on the streets of São Paulo. Although Pixote becomes involved in petty crime and prostitution, he also craves the attention, affection and a sense of belonging. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Open to the Public
Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Humbruger, 2008): This film gives us a glimpse into the life of 12-year-old Mauro, who moves to the São Paulo neighborhood of Bom Retiro when his parents flee the country during the military dictatorship. He longs to see Brazil win its third World Cup, but must also make sense of his new world. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
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Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival
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Black Orpheus (Camus,1958): This film transports the myth of Orpheus to the hills of Rio de Janeiro. Camus celebrates an age of innocence in Brazil with the music and poetry of Vinicius de Morais and Tom Jobim. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
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Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival
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Olga (Jayme Monjardim 2004). 141 minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.
Olga chronicles the story of Olga Benario Prestes’ (1908-1942), a German Jew married to one of the most important Brazilian communist leaders in Brazil in the 1930s. The film recreates the tensions of the Getúlio Vargas regime in Brazil and highlights arrest and deportation of the pregnant Olga to Nazi Germany.
Olga chronicles the story of Olga Benario Prestes’ (1908-1942), a German Jew married to one of the most important Brazilian communist leaders in Brazil in the 1930s. The film recreates the tensions of the Getúlio Vargas regime in Brazil and highlights arrest and deportation of the pregnant Olga to Nazi Germany.
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Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival
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Xica da Silva (Cacá Diegues, 1976): Produced during the dictatorship, this irreverent, mythical and problematic film focuses on the enslaved protagonist who wins her master’s favour, becomes his mistress and exercises limited power during the period of slavery. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
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"The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling during the Weimar Republic" (Book talk with the author)
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American World War I Posters: Exploring Representations of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
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“American World War I Posters: Exploring Representations of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender”, by Jason McDonald
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