Charles Musser named Academy Film Scholar
Charles Musser, professor of American studies and co-chair of the Film Studies Program, was one of two individuals selected as Academy Film Scholars by the Motion Picture Academy.
Musser will receive $25,000 to support the writing of a book, to be titled "Film Truth, Documentary Practice: A History."
The scholars program was created in 1999 to "stimulate and support the creation of new and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures."
Michael Coe, the C.J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, was presented with Guatemala's highest honor, the Order of the Quetzal, by the vice president of Guatemala at a symposium on San Bartolo at the University of California, Irvine, on Oct. 30.
The award presentation cited Coe's contributions to making information available both to scholars and to the general public. The symposium explored aspects of the San Bartolo murals and of their place in the pre-Classic Maya cultures, as well as the relations of their motifs and message with the Olmec culture.
The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies will co-sponsor the Monique Wittig Memorial Conference.
The conference will take place 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11, in the Thompkins Room in the Barker Humanities Center at Harvard University. The keynote address will be given by Judith Butler and papers will be presented by Margaret B. Homans, professor of English and professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies, Didier Eribon, Diana Crowder and Alice Jardine, among others.
For more information, call (203) 432-7737 or send e-mail to lgs@yale.edu.
The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, a scholarly organization affiliated with Yale, is sponsoring a lecture by Jonathan Blake, chair of the Department of Computer Science/Interactive Digital Design at Quinnipiac University, on Tuesday, Dec. 14.
Titled "The Evolution of a Computational Biologist," the lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in Rm. 123 of the Lender School of Business at Quinnipiac University in Hamden.
The event is free and the public is invited. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 2.
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