316f European Studies Seminar

Fall 1999 :

The European City in Films: Romance and Renewal

Meeting times: every monday night from 7 to 9:00 PM (9 CIRUTI)

Coordinator Nicole Vaget, Professor of French

 

Syllabus

9/13: Gateway to Europe
9/20: Students' presentations on: Estonia (Megan Schmidt) + France (kathryn Palmer) + Germany (Mariah Bergeron)+ Switzerland (Katherine Riedlinger) + Italy (Kyrsten Buckley-Brawner) + Greece (Susie Lee) + Iceland
9/27: Students' presentations on Portugal (Ramona U Marks) + Bulgaria (Boriana Nikolova) + United Kingdom
10/4: Students presentations: Greece + Ireland
10/9-9/12 = October Break
10/17: Film on Vienna "The Third Man" (shown in LRC 9 on Sunday from 7 to 9 and on Monday from 4 to6 ) 10/18: Michael Burns : "Between two Worlds: Vienna after 1945"
10/24: Film on Paris "Is Paris burning?" (shown in LRC 9 on Sunday from 7 to 10and on Monday from 4 to7 ) 10/25: Julie Fette: Presentation on "Paris during World War II"
10/31: Film on Paris: Agnès Varda "Cleo from 5 to 7"in Ciruti 9 (shown in LRC 9 on Sunday from 7 to 9 and on Monday from 4 to6 ) 11/1 : cancelled
11/7: Film on Rome: "Roman Holiday" (shown in LRC 9 on Sunday from 7 to 9 and on Monday from 4 to6 ) 11/8: John Varriano: "Roman Holiday: Romance and Myth"in Ciruti 9
11/14: Film on Berlin: "Metropolis"(shown in Ciruti 9 on Sunday from 7 to 9 11/ 15: Film: "Berlin - Symphony of a Great City" (shown in Ciruti 9 on Monday from 7 to 9)
11/22 : Gaby Davis : "Berlin of the 20s--Madonna, Whore, or Robot?" in Ciruti 9
Thanksgiving break
11/29: Catherine Legouis "Paris in Real Time"in Ciruti 221 at 7 pm
12/5: Film on Tbilisi: Nan Djordjadze, "Chef in Love" (shown in LRC 9 on Sunday from 7 to 9 and on Monday from 4 to6 ) 12/6: Presentation by Stephen Jones in Ciruti 9 at 7 pm
12/13: Students' presentations of European countries's new pages.   Final paper due
Web Site: Gateway to Europe

There are 12 students in the seminar.

• jmaras@mtholyoke.edu Jennifer M. Aras, '00
• mhberger@mtholyoke.edu Mariah H Bergeron, '02
• kvbuckle@mtholyoke.edu Kyrsten V Buckley-Brawner, '00
• hlee@mtholyoke.edu Haeok Lee, '01
• rumarks@mtholyoke.edu Ramona U Marks, '02
• bnikolov@mtholyoke.edu Boriana Nikolova, 'FP
• kcpalmer@mtholyoke.edu Kathryn C Palmer, '00
• krriedli@mtholyoke.edu Katharine R Riedlinger, '02
• mmschmid@mtholyoke.edu Megan M Schmidt, '02
• cesmith@mtholyoke.edu Caroline E Smith, '01
• jmtakats@mtholyoke.edu Jocelyne M Takatsuno, '00J
• ldtodoro@mtholyoke.edu Lazarina D Todorova, '00

Faculty:

• mburns@mtholyoke.edu, Michael Burns (history)
• acastilla@mtholyoke.edu, Alberto Castilla (Spanish)
• gdavis@mtholyoke.edu, Gaby Davis (German)
• pgill@mtholyoke.edu, Penny Gill (poltics)
• amazzocc@mtholyoke.edu, Angelo Mazzocco (Spanish and Italien)
• nvaget@mtholyoke.edu, Nicole Vaget (French)
• jlvarria@javanet.com, John Varriano (art)
• sfjones@mtholyoke.edu, Stephen Jones (Russian)
• alass@mtholyoke.edu, Andrew Lass (anthropology)
• clegouis@mtholyoke.edu, Catherine Legouis (French)
• lliteri@mtholyoke.edu, Louise Litterick (music)
• ktucker@mtholyoke.edu, Ken Tucker (sociology)
• pscotto@mtholyoke.edu, Peter Scotto (Russian)