Visions of Struggle - Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Visions of Struggle
Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

November 2-3, 2007
Collins Cinema
Davis Museum and Cultural Center
106 Central St
Wellesley, MA

Coordinated by Flavia Laviosa
Senior Lecturer
Italian Studies

free and open to the public

This two-day symposium will illustrate the hybridexpressions of modernity as manifested in the ways of being a woman in struggle in the Mediterranean area, paying special attention to women's cinema as a form of counter-cinema and reinterpretation of women's shifting roles. Organized around socio-political themes, the symposium hosts speakers who will examine films that denounce violence and abuse, expose hypocrisies, and address the consequences of cultural conflicts and changes in women's lives in Mediterranean countries today.

Friday November 2, 2007

4:45-9:15pm

Keynote Speaker
Yosefa Loshitzky
Veiling and Unveiling the Mediterranean: Women's Cinema between East and West

World Premiere Screening of
Maria's Grotto
film information, click here

Saturday November 3, 2007

8:30am-5:45pm

Co-sponsored by Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Kathryn Wasserman Davis '28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership and Amy Sommer '87, Treves Memorial Fund, Departments and Programs of Italian Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Writing, Art, Political Science, German, Newhouse Center, Middle Eastern Studies, French, Religion, Cinema and Media Studies, Media Arts and Sciences, Women's Studies, Peace and Justice, Theatre & Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, Africana Studies, Spanish, Sociology, Italian Student Society, and Boston Palestine Film Festival.