The presentation of the year is coming up for me soon. You're invited. I can't wait to see you!
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| The Night Porter |
What guides a director’s gaze into the web of memories
shared by lovers whose circumstances were extreme? Does the fear of love dissipate when an auteur looks whose sense of sexuality is
fluid and style of love inclusive? This
presentation will discuss cinematic techniques of memory retrieval in two
Holocaust-themed art films of the 1970s produced in Italy: Bernardo Bertolucci,
in The Conformist (1970), and Liliana
Cavani, in The Night Porter
(1974). Each presents a gendered
perspective on what happens when a species acts against its own best
interest--when it becomes self-destructive.
How can this behavior be exorcised?
Can love for love prevail over the pall of fear? These are, I claim, the main questions the
films posit for 21st century viewers.
Amorous Visions: The Gaze of Love for Love of Erotophilia.
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| The Conformist |
Presented by Serena Anderlini, PhD, and Research Fellow at U Conn's Humanities Institute.
Where: UCHI, CLAS/Austin Building # 301. 215 Glenbrook Road, Unit 4234. Storrs, CT 06269.
When: Thursday, February 28h, at 4:00-5:30 PM.
Free of charge and open to the public.
For more information call: 860 486 9057
Note: The presentation will be enhanced by numerous selected clips from the movies under discussion.
Bernardo Berolucci, director of The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, and many other films, including, recently, The Dreamers.
Liliana Cavani, director of The Night Porter, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Berlin Affair, known collectively as The European Trilogy, and many other films.
Note: The presentation will be followed by an open questions and answers period.
About the Presenter:
Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Ph.D, is a Professor of
Humanities, Italian, and Cinema at the University of Puerto Rico,
Mayaguez. She is a current Research Fellow at UCHI. A UCR graduate, she is the
author and editor of numerous award-winning books, including Gaia (2009), Eros (2006), BiTopia
(2011), Bisexuality and Queer Theory
(2011), Plural Loves (2005), Women and Bisexuality (2003), and The ‘Weak’ Subject (1998). She has
charted new fields, including ecosexuality and the arts of loving sustainably
and inclusively. Her new work includes a
study of sustainable practices of love and a collection of writings on
ecosexuality.
Find out more about UCHI's presentations, programs, and activities: UCHI
As a comment:
I feel an immense gratitude for this Fellowship research year. My
spirit feels rejuvenated and revitalized by the inspiration and
creativity that it's been immersed in. It has been a wonderful gift to
be in the company of fellow Fellows and their projects, and to have
access to the abundant research resources of U Conn, Storrs. Also, it's
lovely to be immersed in discourses across disciplines and a campus
abundant with Centers and Institutes where these conversations
flourish.
This
is the most important presentation in my Fellowship year. It's a
public presentation designed to offer the pulse of where my project is
at and where it's headed to. It's been a pleasure to prepare it, with
abundant technical assistance at the Institute. And I hope it will be
well received and inspire a generous amount of questions and genuine
debate.
Thank you, U Conn. Thank you, UCHI.
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| Photo by Mina Bast |
Education is the heart of democracy, education to love.
We offer a seminar this summer: Ecosexuality: Becoming
a Resource of Love. Join us in Portland, OR, July 17-21,
for this amazing experience. It's still early-bird time for
those interested. Register now here!
Come back for more wonders.
Namaste,
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD
Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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