This panel offers a retrospective examination of the 1968 Czechoslovak “Prague Spring”, or what the LBJ administration labeled the “Czechoslovak crisis.” Panelists Dr. Mary Neuburger, Professor of History and Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and Dr. Jeremi Suri, Professor of History and Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, offer […]
Films & Media
Faces of Migration: The Grand Budapest Hotel
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Tuesday, April 10 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Free | Open to the Public Public parking | Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of M. Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who […]
Faces of Migration: Lone Star
LONE STAR Tuesday, March 27 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Free | Open to the Public Public parking | Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd “The great, stirring epic LONE STAR stands as a peak in the career of John Sayles, who already has such admirably serious films to his credit. Long admired for the […]
Faces of Migration: Lamerica
LAMERICA Tuesday, March 6 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Free | Open to the Public Public parking | Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd “Master Italian filmmaker Gianni Amelio followed his Oscar-nominated Open Doors and internationally acclaimed The Stolen Children with this unforgettable story of huckster brothers Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and Fiore (Michele Placido), who travel from Italy […]
Faces of Migration: Moi, Un Noir
MOI, UN NOIR Tuesday Feb. 20 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Public parking: Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, MOI, UN NOIR marked Jean Rouch’s break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called “shared ethnography” and “ethnofiction.” “The film […]
Faces of Migration: Take Out
TAKE OUT Tue. Feb. 6 | 7:00pm CLA 1.302E (Glickman Conference Center) Public parking: Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd. From directors Sean Baker (“Tangerine,” “The Florida Project”) and Shih-Ching Tsou, “Take Out” is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York […]
Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Films
The Not Even Past film series, Faces of Migration, is back this Spring every other Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Glickman Conference Center (CLA Building) on the UT Austin campus. Films are free and open to the public. Each film will be introduced by a faculty member who will lead a discussion after the […]
Historical Perspectives on Marshall (dir: Reginal Hudlin, 2017)
By Luritta DuBois When Hollywood media websites announced Chadwick Boseman would portray Thurgood Marshall in December 2015, people immediately slammed director Reginald Hudlin’s choice to select an actor who did not share Marshall’s phenotype. Boseman is brown skinned with 4b hair, while Thurgood Marshall was light skinned and had a 3b curl pattern. Those vast […]
Legacies of the Vietnam War
The Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War (2017), shown in 10 parts on PBS, once again brought a divisive and contested conflict into American living rooms. Mark A. Lawrence, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and preeminent historian of the Vietnam War, recently wrote about what we are learning from […]
Nature Boy, 30 for 30 (directed by Rory Karpf, 2017)
By Christopher Babits Growing up, I enjoyed going over to my Uncle Glenn’s house on Saturdays. In the afternoons, he and my Uncle Jeff would tune trucks and fix lawn mowers, rototillers, and other machinery. I was too young to fix anything, but I wasn’t there to help my blue-collar uncles with these tasks. I […]
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