Event Calendar

27October

Mon

• Hispanic Studies Lecture Main Building, Jade Parlor, 3:15 pm
• "Hay que cambiar de cara:" class and democracy in the early transition. Catherine Simpson, University of Richmond.Simpson will discuss "El Puente" (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1977), a radical reinterpretation of Spain's politically conservative tourism comedies of the 1960s and early 1970s that eschews the tourism comedies that preceded it and re-situates the Spanish male subject as a figure in deep personal crisis, using a style evocative the gritty realism of 1970s American cinema. El Puente indicts Transition-era Spanish society for ignoring economic injustice and trampling the individual at the very moment in which real political change begins to seem possible. The film reminds us that Spanish modernity and democracy are enjoyed only in proportion to one's own power and prosperity.
• Halloween Movie Marathon Blodgett, Nora Ann Wallace '73 Auditorium, 7:00 pm
• ViCE Film League presents a week-long movie extravangza filled with classic horror films to get you in the mood for Halloween!
• College Dems Meeting College Center, 223, 8:00 pm
• Hunger Action Meeting Main Building, Jade Parlor, 9:30 pm
• 2010 Class Council Meeting College Center, 237, 10:00 pm
• Open to all members of the class of 2010.