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Come join us on Wednesday, March 29 at 4:30 p.m. in room E690 for the last film in the Spring 2023 series:

Film 5: On This Side of the World

(Spain, David Trueba, 2020)

An engineer is fired from his company just as he plans to buy a house with his girlfriend and have a child. He accepts an assignment from his former boss to travel to the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in north Africa and gateway to Europe.

Rated NR (In Spanish w/ English subtitles)

The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics Spring 2023 Speaker Series presents a special IN PERSON virtual talk:

Daphné B, author of Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

What do makeup influencers tell us about the world: Writing in the age of social media

Friday, March 24, 2023

12 to 1 p.m.

Come for some fun. Pie Eating, Pi Contests and Prizes.

Come join us on Monday, March 20 at 4:30 p.m. in room E690 for the fourth film in the Spring 2023 series:

Film 4: Zizou and the Arab Spring 

(France/Tunisia, Férid Boughedir, 2016)

The sweet story of Zizou, a naive and sincere optimist whose crush on a beautiful girl leads him to become the unwitting face of a revolution. This delightful movie will win you over with its bewitching story set against the gorgeous backdrop of a colourful Tunisia as it attempts to become the first true democracy in North Africa.

Come join us on Wednesday, March 15 at 4:30 p.m. in room E690 for the fourth film in the Spring 2023 series:

Film 4: Zizou and the Arab Spring 

(France/Tunisia, Férid Boughedir, 2016)

The sweet story of Zizou, a naive and sincere optimist whose crush on a beautiful girl leads him to become the unwitting face of a revolution. This delightful movie will win you over with its bewitching story set against the gorgeous backdrop of a colourful Tunisia as it attempts to become the first true democracy in North Africa.

The Department of Philosophy will present the following as part of their colloquium series.

Virtual Companions and the Curious Case of Sexual Lethargy
Speaker:  Steve Firth (Doctoral Candidate, Helsinki University)
Day/Date:  Friday, March 10, 2023
Time:  3 p.m.
Location:  C674 (University Hall)

Everyone is welcome.

Join the Institute of Child and Youth Studies for a casual discussion of Maria Montessori’s influential 1951 Address.

Come join us on Monday, March 6 at 4:30 p.m. in room E690 for the third film in the Spring 2023 series:

Film 3:  Radiance

(Japan, Naomi Kawase, 2017)

At a firm specializing in creating audio descriptions for films for the visually impaired, a transcriber comes to know a panel member who was a successful photographer who has lost much of his eyesight.  The new friendship leads to coming to terms with their lives and professions and seeing the world in new ways.

Rated NR (In Japanese w/ English subtitles)

Come join us on Wednesday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m. in room E690 for the third film in the Spring 2023 series:

Film 3:  Radiance

(Japan, Naomi Kawase, 2017)

At a firm specializing in creating audio descriptions for films for the visually impaired, a transcriber comes to know a panel member who was a successful photographer who has lost much of his eyesight.  The new friendship leads to coming to terms with their lives and professions and seeing the world in new ways.

Rated NR (In Japanese w/ English subtitles)

Anthropology presents a talk by Dr. Justin Raycraft