The Program at a Glance
 
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Thursday Morning 
Thursday Afternoon 
1.  Deep in the Heart: The Vast Multicultural Spaces of Texas 
3.  Race in Science Fiction Films   
4. Race, Politics and Media Through Film   
5. Native Culture and Dialect in Italian National Literature   
6. Latin American Poetry   
7. Mapping Imperial Bodies in Literature   
8. Issues of Race in the Old and New World   
10. American as "Other" in Film and Literature   
11. The Crisis of Visuality in Figuring Race   
12. Race and Gender: Female and Male Writers/Artists
13. Race/Gender/Ideology in Film Genres   
14. Noir and Race   
15. Ethnicity in Films   
16. Racial Identity: American Films   
17. Queer Theory in Film   
18. The Colonial Camera: Africa   
19. Journeys Toward Racial Identity in European Literature   
20. Race and Place in the Promised Land   
21. The African American Cowboy and Soldier   
22. Stereotyping (?) Blackness in Film and Literature   
23. "Whiteness" in Music and Film
Thursday Evening (8:00 p.m.) -- Film Screening
City of Hope
 
Friday Morning 
    Friday Afternoon 
24. Race and the Western   
25. Race in Documentaries and Docudramas   
26. Race and Independent Black Filmmakers   
27. Otherness in Film   
28. Ethnicity and "The Global Village" in Film and Literature 
29. Language and Its Discontents   
30. Transforming Literary Conventions: The Effects of Race and Gender   
31. Myths and Ethnicity in Russian Culture   
32. Colonialism in Film and Literature   
 
33. Genre and Race in American Cinema   
34. Race, Ethnicity and Otherness in Narrative and Documentary 
35. John Sayles   
36. War: What Is It Good for?   
37. Blackness and Hollywood   
38. Jewishness and Race in Film   
39. Reflexion on the Idea of Race and Gender: France, Italy, USA 
40. The Search for Identity in Literature   
41. Russian Underground Literature   
42. Cross Dressing, Miscegenation and Lesbianism in Literature and Film   
43. Queer Pursuits   
44. Adaptation: Racial Transformations
Friday - Noon --  Dining Room
Lunch and entertainment by the Mickee Faust Players
 $12 fee and reservation required
Friday Evening     8:00 p.m.  
Keynote Address
"Blues for Tomorrow"
Stanley Crouch, essayist, critic and MacArthur Fellow

Cash Bar Reception     Fireside Lounge 

 
 
Saturday Morning 
Saturday Afternoon
45. Liminality, Deviance, Violence   
46. Horror, Pulp Fiction and Music   
47. Violence, Race, Ethnicity and Nationality   
48. Black Auteurs   
49. Gender and Race in Film   
50. Audience Response and Film   
51. Race, Gender, etc. in Literature   
52. The Colonial Camera: Europe   
53. Art History and the Aesthetics of European and American Film   
54. Seeking Identity Through Literature and Film  
 
55. Racing and Erasing Difference   
56. Outsiders and Social Control in Film  
57. Race, Class and Sexuality in Film   
58. Assimilation or Individualism in Literature   
59. Feminist Perspectives in Films   
60. Problems of Racial Identity   
61. Multiculturalisms in Literature   
62. The Colonial Camera: Asia   
63. Reading/Writing Race as a Refractory Sign in Mann, Visconti, Bathes and Eco   
64. Issues of Race in Literature and Film   
65. Being There: Colonialism as Mise en Scene   
66. The Irish and the Gypsy: The Seduction of Ethnic Identity by Class