Film Society | When Youth Ends (And Nothing Begins) | Mini-term Special Screening Series | Mar. 9-14
“When Youth Ends (And Nothing Begins)” At 22, the world is supposed to make sense at last: diploma in hand, résumé in order, possibilities abound. The films in this series suggest the opposite. Moving between university dormitories, cramped apartments, and decadent dance floors, they follow young people who did everything “right” and still fail to […]
Film Society | Screening of 沼泽 La Ciénaga (2001) | Female Directors Series | Feb. 5
“A house suffocating in heat, noise, and decay” Thursday, 2.05, 7:15pm Library 2101B -> (film appreciation room) Presented by DKU film society this week, La Ciénaga (2001) announces Lucrecia Martel as one of cinema’s most radical new voices. Set in the stagnant summer of an Argentine bourgeois family, the film replaces plot with atmosphere, letting […]
Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy reimagined through a fearless cinematic vision
This week, hosted by Professor Seth Henderson, DKU film society will present the movie Titus (1999), an audacious adaptation of Titus Andronicus directed by Julie Taymor. As well-known for bringing the stunning visuals of puppetry to the Broadway adaptation of The Lion King, Taymor this time blended ancient Rome with modern imagery. The film erupts […]
A perfectly controlled life, starting to crack
Date & time: 7:15pm, Thursday, Jan. 22 IB Lecture hall This week in the Female Directors series, the Film Society will screen American Psycho (2000), Mary Harron’s darkly funny and deeply unsettling take on status, masculinity, and self-invention. Set in late-1980s Manhattan, the film follows Patrick Bateman, a man obsessed with appearances, his job, his […]
Event Report on Using American Databases and Historical Newspapers
Prof. Jan Hua-Henning began by offering a brief introduction to historical research. For students who are not familiar with historical research methods, he distinguished between primary and secondary sources. Students then shared some examples of primary and secondary sources. To offer a case study in primary source research and analysis, Prof. Hua-Henning delved into a […]
Using American Databases and Historical Newspapers
The AHI is holding a workshop tomorrow in LIB1117 from 4:15-5:15pm. Prof Jan Hua-Henning will provide guidance on how to find U.S. sources online, specifically in regard to newspapers. The workshop is part of my class on American History but anyone interested is invited. Prof Jan Hua-Henning will also share some findings from his research on Tuberculosis and Race […]
Film Society: The Substance (2024)
As the premiere of our latest “Female Directors” screening series, this week the Film Society presents The Substance (2024), the gory horror by female director Coralie Fargeat. A grotesque fusion of body horror, dark satire, and feminist commentary, The Substance tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a fading Hollywood celebrity who injects a black-market drug […]
Film Society | Curatorial Statement of the Female Directors Screening Series
This session, DKU Film Society turns its focus to female directors—not as a genre, nor as a category defined by identity alone, but as a curatorial lens through which cinema’s forms, politics, and ways of seeing can be re-examined. From body horror and revenge fantasy to nostalgic documentary, reflection on domestic labor, alienation, mobility, and […]
Provincializing Earth: The Making of a Planet since 1946
Thursday December 4, 5-6:15 PM, AB1079 Speaker: Alexander C.T. Geppert, New York University and NYU Shanghai Global history is currently attempting to reinvent itself under the supposedly new label ‘planetary history’ yet without paying much attention to the planet’s outerspatial environment. Divided into four segments – planetization, picturization, satellization, extraterrestrialization – this talk argues that […]
The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China
Thursday November 27, 5:00-6:15pm, Lib 2115 Speaker: Professor Ziying Cui, Visiting Lecturer of Dance at DKU In 2015, Huawei shocked the world with a striking advertisement: a ballerina’s foot, one perfectly poised in a satin shoe, the other bruised and bleeding beneath its bandages. For Huawei’s founder, this tortured foot symbolized both “pain and happiness” […]
