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Events for Lectures & Symposia - 2004
Lecture - followed by screening of Pedro Almodovar's 'Talk to Her'
1/17/2004; 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Marsha Kinder, Cinema-TV, USC, "Reinventing the Motherland: Almodovar's Braindead Trilogy"

Lecture - 'A New Court for a New Democracy: Art, Memory, and Human Rights Come Together in Building South Africa's Constitutional Court'
1/29/2004; 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture
Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court Judge, South African Constitutional Court and longtime rights activist during the apartheid era.

Discussion - 'A New Court for a New Democracy: Art, Memory, and Human Rights Come Together in Building South Africa's Constitutional Court
1/30/2004; 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM

The Marc and Constance Jacobson Discussion
Speaker: Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court Judge, South African Constitutional Court

Lecture - 'Minor Transnationalism'
2/5/2004; 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Françoise Lionnet, Department of French, UCLA

Poetry Reading
3/26/2004; 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Denise Riley, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

*Staged Reading - 'Decreation: A Hypothetical Opera in Three Parts'
4/9/2004; 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Anne Carson, English, Classics and Comparative Literature

*Staged Reading - 'Decreation: A Hypothetical Opera in Three Parts'
4/10/2004; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Anne Carson - English, Classics and Comparative Literature

Panel - 'The Book That Changed My Life'
4/24/2004; 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Featuring Mary-Sue Coleman, Lloyd Carr, Thylias Moss, Charles Baxter, Joan Knoertzer, Josie Barnes and Zibby Oneal

Film Screening - 'Siliva the Zulu'
9/21/2004; 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Screening of the film 'Siliva the Zulu' with live accompaniment by Themba Tana

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Thursday Brown Bag Lecture - Waste and Material Culture: Living with Abandoned Things
10/14/2004; 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Gay Hawkins, School of Media and Communications, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Lecture - 'Criminal Accounting: Quantifacts and the Production of the Unreal'
10/28/2004; 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Jean Comaroff, Anthropology, University of Chicago

HIV Film Series
11/3/2004; 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Body and Soul, Melody Emmett, South Africa 2001
52 mins in English, Sotho and Tswana with English subtitles

HIV Film Series
11/10/2004; 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

A State of Denial, Elaine Epstein, South Africa 2003
83 mins in English, Sotho, Zulu with English subtitles

HIV Film Series
11/17/2004; 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Wa'n Wina (Sincerely Yours), Dumisne Pakathi, South Africa, 2001
52 mins in English, Sotho, Zulu with English subtitles