Renowned Critical Theorist and Filmmaker Trinh Minh-ha to Speak
March 4 , 2005
Trinh T. Minh-ha, professor of women's studies and rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley and internationally renowned critical theorist and filmmaker, will give a public lecture at 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, March 15, in the HUB Auditorium on the Penn State University Park campus.
Minh-ha’s seven feature-length films have been honored in thirty retrospectives around the world, including the 2002 international art exhibition Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany. Her films have won various awards, including the 1992 Sundance Film Festival’s award for best cinematography. She is also the author of seven books, most recently Cinema Interval (1999) and Framer Framed (1992). Her newest book, The Digital Film Event, is forthcoming.
In conjunction with Minh-ha’s visit to Penn State, her film Night Passage will be screened at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16, in Carnegie Cinema (she will not be present at the screenings). She is also giving the plenary address at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, sponsored by the Penn State Department of Comparative Literature.
Minh-ha’s visit is co-sponsored by the School of Visual Arts, John M. Anderson Endowment, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Film, Video, and Media Studies, the Women’s Studies Program, the Women's Self Representation Project, the Department of English, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Rock Ethics Institute, the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the College of Communication, the College of Arts and Architecture, the College of Liberal Arts, Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the HUB Robeson Galleries.
Contact: Ann Shostrom, ams26@psu.edu or 814-863-9701