[Cwgrad-announcements] Palm Springs Film Festival

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Just a note to let you know that the Palm Springs 
International Film Festival begins tomorrow January 5 and 
runs throught January 16.  There are many many many films 
from USA and around the world in this 17th year of the 
festival.

There are a couple of special showings with tickets 
available to students.  I ahve tickets to the Tuesday 
January 10 5pm showing of Salvador Allende by Patricio 
Guzman.  Guzman (The Battle of Chile) offers this personal 
reflection on General Pinochet's violent coup d'etat that 
overthrew President Allende on September 11, 1973."

The Friday, January 13 1pm showing of Border Cafe by 
Kambozia Partovi.  "A widow's efforts to run a truck-stop 
diner near the Iran-Turkey border becomes a lesson in 
stifling patriarchy.  A strong script, nuanced acting and a 
sharply dilineated sociopolitical sense make it as enjoyable 
as it is intelligent."

Let me know if you are interested in tickets for either of 
these events.

For more informationon the festival you can go to 
www.psfilmfest.org



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>Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:20:39 -0800
>From: cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu  
>Subject: [Cwgrad-announcements] CFP: Failure: Idealism and 
History  
>To: "cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu" <cwgrad-
announcements at lists.ucr.edu>
>
>Happy 2006 everyone!
>A friend of mine is editing this and I thought some of you 
might be
>interested in this...
>best to you all,
>Gaby
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY
>
>
>
>
>
>Proposals are invited for a volume on the topic of failure, 
and its
>relationship to idealism and history, to be published in 
conjunction
>with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (www.joap.org
><http://www.joap.org/> ).  We're interested primarily in 
those
>historical and aesthetic "failures" which are a result of a 
powerful,
>if sometimes naïve, idealism, out of step with their own 
contexts. 
>Either a result of the exhaustion of a moment and/or 
movement, pushed
>to its logical (or illogical) conclusion (such as the 
Children's
>Crusades of 1212, or the Weather Underground), or the 
result of the
>utter misunderstanding of a historical moment (novelist 
Yukio
>Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism in post-war Japan).  
The
>question of re-visiting these various cultural, historical, 
artistic
>moments is inevitably an exploration of the relationship 
between an
>act and its historical moment, and bringing that 
relationship into the
>present.  While a "success" may seem to be something that 
determines
>the shape of history, failures on a colossal and 
spectacular scale are
>often those things that bring history, culture, and art 
most sharply
>into relief.
>
>
>
>We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, 
visual
>explorations (e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic experiments 
that deal
>with the topic of failure and its relationship to idealism 
and
>history.  Possible topics include: failed utopias, failure 
and
>tragedy, failed political movements (including Marxism), 
specific
>literary or artistic works (such as Gertrude Stein's The 
Making of
>Americans, "The first truly original disaster of 
modernism"), the
>"failure" of the Iraq war protests, various arguments on 
the "failure"
>of the avant-garde and/or modernism, specific theorists' 
relationship
>to failure (e.g., Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida),
>technology and failure, the history of failure, failure and
>architecture, alternative psychology movements, failed 
public art
>(e.g., Tilted Arc).
>
>
>
>Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the 
project, as a
>Word attachment, to Colin Dickey, cdickey at nu.edu, by 
February 15,
>2006.  Notification for selected work will be February 28, 
2006, and
>completed works will be due no later than June 1, 2006.
>
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Eric Barr, Professor
Department of Theatre 
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
phone 951-827-6488 fax 951-827-4651
http://www.theatre.ucr.edu