January 15-16, 2010
"FILM AND PHILOSOPHY"
Friday Jan 15, 3-5 p.m.: Film Noir
Robert Pippin, "Fate and Film Noir: Some Filmic Philosophy in Out of the Past"
George Wilson, "Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: On the Coen Brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There"
Saturday Jan 16, 10 a.m.-12 noon: Philosophy and Theory
Jean Ma, "Object Lessons: The Film Essay"
Malcolm Turvey, "Medium-Specificity Defended"
Saturday Jan 16, 1-3 p.m.: Self-Reference
Joshua Landy: "Still Life in a Narrative Age: Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation"
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: "Evil and Self-Reference in Fritz Lang's Fury"
Saturday Jan 16, 3:30-5 p.m.: Cinema and the Mind
Pavle Levi: "Film/Cinema: A Dialectical Couple"
Karla Oeler: "Cinema and Interiority"
Saturday Jan 16, 5-6 p.m.: Fiction and Truth
David Thomson: "If the cinema is the truth 24 times a second, how shall we tell lies?"
Location: Stanford Humanities Center
Cosponsored by the Aesthetics Workshop (SHC), the Program in Film Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Friday, Feb 12, 2010, 3:15-5:00 p.m.
Alva Noe (Berkeley)
Details TBA
February 24, 2010, 5:15-7:00 p.m. (day & time to be confirmed)
Giovanni Ferrari (Berkeley)
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March 15, 2010
Blakey Vermeule in conversation about her new book, Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?
Details TBA
