The Twelfth Annual Brazil Week at Harvard - All Activities are free and open to the public
Sponsors: The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
The screenings of these films - the Harvard Archives on Saturday, April 5th beginning at 7:15pm.
Italian filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucchi have over the past 25 years proven themselves to be masters of the assemblage of found footage film, returning over and over again to images from the first decades of the 20th century, with a special attention to images of war and colonialism. Since their visit to the HFA five years ago, the duo has released a major new work: Pays barbare (“Barbaric country”), a montage of images from Mussolini’s brutal...
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (light reception to follow in Emerson 106)
Interests: Literary and cultural history; memory studies; poetry; social movements, and urban cultures. His primary area of research is Modern and Contemporary Spain.
Books: Letras arrebatadas, Poesía y química en la transición española [Raptured Letters: Chemical Poetry during the Spanish Transition to Democracy],
The Twelfth Annual Brazil Week - April 7- April 10
Sponsors: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
Italian filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucchi have over the past 25 years proven themselves to be masters of the assemblage of found footage film, returning over and over again to images from the first decades of the 20th century, with a special attention to images of war and colonialism. Since their visit to the HFA five years ago, the duo has released a major new work: Pays barbare (“Barbaric country”), a montage of images from Mussolini’s brutal occupation of...
On Exhibition in Pusey Library April 4-May 2, 2014- Opening Reception Friday, April 4, 7-9pm
OPENING RECEPTION FOR IN AFRICA IT IS ANOTHER STORY: FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 7-9 PM IN PUSEY LIBRARY. The exhibit features personal albums, photographs, postcards, and maps from the Harvard Library collections ranging from the early twentieth century to the Fascist period. Curated by Professor Giuliana Minghelli and Italian Doctoral candidates Matt Collins, Dalila Colucci, Eloisa Morra and Chiara Trebaiocchi, In Africa it is Another Story investigates the visual, literary...