1970s: Film, Performance, Language, and Technology

John Simon

Seminar

John Cage

Public Demonstrations

Nathan Scott

Lecture: “Criticism and the Religious Horizon”

John Gutman

Seminar: “Jesus Christ Superstar and Contemporary Opera”

Ernst Jandl

Lecture: “Concrete and Experimental Poetry”

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Slide Presentation

Anaïs Nin

Reading: “Diaries”

Jaroslav Pelikan

Lecture: “The City of Man and the City of God”

Jürgen Becker

Reading and Lecture: “Contemporary Trends”

Red Grooms

Artist in Residence

Conference: Transformation of the Novel

with George Wickes, Germaine Brée, Ihab Hassan, Célia Bertin, Warren Fine, Charles Newman, Kathleen Bukey, James Roth, and Charles Caramello
Coordinated by Charles Russell

José Greco

Dance Demonstration
Lecture on Spanish and Flamenco Culture

Alessandra Comini

Slide Presentation

Ronald Sukenick

Interview

Manfred Nahmmacher and Walter Huen

Lecture Series: “Leitz 3-Day Lecture Series in Microscopy and Photography”

Umberto Eco

Consulting

Ron Herron and Dennis Crompton

Lectures, Seminars and Workshops (exact dates unknown)

Conference: Creating Awareness through Poetry

with Bruce Cutler, Dolores Kendrick, and May Miller

Sheila Tobia

Program on Women’s Studies

June Wayne, Barbara Loden, Erika Munk, Kathy Posin, and Adrienne Rich

Program: “Women in the Arts”

Emile De Antonio

Film Screening: Painters Painting

John Cullinan

Seminar: “Anthony Burgess: Beyond A Clockwork Orange“

Anthony Burgess

Readings from Finnegan’s Wake and his own works (exact date unknown)

Robert Gilka

Slide Presentation: “Why We Look at Pictures”

Flip Schulke

Film Screening: Man in the Sea-Tektite II
Slide Presentation: “From National Geographic to Playboy”

Margaret Mead

Lecture: “Thoughts on Ethnicity”

Ernst Wilde

Program: “Successful Small Camera Photography and Making Pictures a Little Different”

Eliot Elisofon

Lecture: “Wild Life Photography”
Film Screening: Africa’s Gift
Lecture: “The Future of Photography”

Howard Fast

Lecture: “On Writing, Filmaking and History”

José Greco

Consulting

Conference: Generating Interest in Humanities Studies: A Counter-Attack on Social Alienation

with Henry Steele Commanger, Nat Hentoff, Dolores Kendrick, Mina Shaughnessy, Ellen Jane Stekert, and John F. Szwed

Conference: Popular Culture

with Ray B. Browne, Russel B. Nye, John Cawelti, and Ihab Hassan

Moshe Lazar

Lecture: “Israel’s Cultural Explosion – 25 Years After Independence”

Walter Höllerer

Discussion: “Die Aesthetik von Walter Benjamin”

Donald Detwiler

Lecture: “Three Ways of Death: The Suicides of Von Kluge, Rommel and Hitler”

François Dallegret and Lee Sackett

Four day program discussing and planning a world memorial

Alfred Kazin

Lecture: “In Praise of the Diaspora—Jewish Writers in America, Europe and Israel”

Ed Emshwiller

Discussion and Public Screening: Choice Chance Woman Dance, Carol, and Relativity

Symposium: The Imaginary City

Paolo Soleri, Françoise Choay, Louis Marin, and Fredric Jameson

Jack R. Pole

Lecture: “Bicentennial Views on Equality in the American Revolution”

Elizabeth Hardwick

Lecture: “Saints and Sinners: Thoughts on Literary Women”

Conference: Perspectives on Criminal Justice

An Evening With the Editors of Popular Photography

with Charles Reynolds and Edward Meyers
Co-Sponsored by UWM Photographic Services

Conference: Imagine Dead Imagine: The Self-Reflective Artwork in Contemporary Literature and Art

with Charles Russell, Jan van der Marck, Raymond Federman, Robert Scholes, Jerome Klinkowitz, Campbell Tatham, William H. Gass, Mel Bochner, Robert Morris, Ronald Sukenick, Gilber Sorrentino, Jack Burnham, Ihab Hassan, Mel Bochner, and Horst W. Janson

Jack Corn

Lecture: “Photographing People in their Culture”

A Week with French Women

Christiane Rochefort, Lecture, February 10
Photographic exhibit: “Women in France,” by Jean Beaulieu
Gloria Crenstein, February 11
Lecture: “Women Surrealists”
Idelette Weber, February 12
Program on continuing education for workers
Panel discusion, February 13
“Cross-cultural Views of Women in France and the United States”
Judith Mayne, February 14
Lecture on women in French films

Thomas Abercrombie

Studio Visit

International Symposium on Ethnopoetics

Paul Aschenbach

Sculpture: “The Copernicus Stones”

Jack Corn

Lecture: “Photographing People in Their Culture”

Thomas J. Abercrombie

Series of Workshops and Lectures

Early Fellows Meeting

Exact date unknown

Judith Mayne

Seminar: “Film and Ideology”

Conference: Public Taxing and the Humanities in Multi-Campus University Systems Conference

Speaker: Eugene Lee

Thierry Kuntzel

Seminar: “Semiotics of Film”

Richard Schickel

Informal Discussion

Maureen Turim

Discussion: “The Textual System of Bresson’s Au Hazard Balthazar“

Thierry Kuntzel and Judith Mayne

Discussion of King Kong

Colloquium: Teaching Foreign Cultures Through Feature Films

with Robert Hammond

David Bordwell

Seminar and Discussion of Dreyer’s Vampyr

Opening Program for the Friends of the Center

Michel Benamou: “Surrealism: Yesterday and Today”

International Symposium on Film Theory and Practical Criticism

This conference was devoted to the consolidation and clarification of humanistic film studies in their theoretical and practical aspects.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Screening: Eden and After

Penelope Gilliatt

Lecture: “Writing for Speaking”

Estella Lauter

Discussion

Werner Nekes and Dore O

Three-Day Visit on German Experimental Film

Thierry Kuntzel

Lecture: “Whatever Happens Between the Pictures?”
with Werner Nekes and Dore O

Eugene Smith and Aileen Smith

Lectures, Informal Session, Channel 10 Taping, and Class Visits

Lawrence Chenoweth

Lecture: “National Ideals and the Shaping of Modern Life:
The American Dream of Success”

Sonia Sheridan

Lecture: “Generative Fabrics”

Fred R. Parker

Lecture: “The Photographic Image – An Overview”

Stefan Morawski

Lecture: “Polish Film Theory”

Marion Palfi

Lecture: “Ask Me If I Got Justice”

Jerome Rothenberg and Harris Lenowitz

Reading: “A Big Jewish Book in Progress”

Emmet Gowin

Lecture: “The Photographic Image – A Personal View”

Michel Benamou, Heiner Müeller, Robert Corrigan, Ariane Mnouchkine

Panel Discussion and Screening: 1789

Heiner Müeller

Scenes From Plays and Discussion

Haig Khatchdourian

Lecture: “Toward a Philosophy of the Art Film”

Seymour Chatman

Lecture: “Toward a Theory of Narrative Structure”

Paul Schrader

Screening: Taxi Driver
Discussion with Stephen Heath: “Screen Writing and Screen Criticism”

Colloquium Panel on James Joyce

with Bernard Benstock, Sharon Benstock, Robert Boyle, Janet Dunleavy, David Hayman, Stephen Heath, Strother Purdy, and Florence Walzl
Lecture, David Hayman: “Structures of the Wake”
David Higgins: Non-Stop Reading of Finnegan’s Wake

Haig Khatchadourian

Lecture: “What is an Art Film?”

Judith Mayne

Lecture: “History and Memory in Hiroshima Mon Amour”

Luis Borges and Donald Yates

Symposium on Argentine Literature

David Lenfest and Diane Wakowski

Screenings and Discussion: “An Evening of Film and Poetry”

John Cawelti

Lecture: “The Shapes of Contemporary Culture”

Ronald Gottesman

Lecture: “Touch of Evil: Who Killed Mrs.Quinlan?”

Douglas Gomery

Lecture: “Stylistic Analysis of My Darling Clementine”

Filmmaker Discussion and Screenings

for the Friends of the Center (exact date unknown)

Summer Seminar on Urban Ethnic Literature

Channel 10 Conference

“The Immigrant Experience”

Umberto Eco

Lecture: “Towards a Semiotics of Performance”

Open Seminar with Umberto Eco

Papers by Teresa de Lauretis, Walter Rewar, and Bill Washabaugh

Stephen Chennault

Voice Reading in Black Dialect

Justin Replogle

Lecture: “Intonation in Poetry”

John Wickham

Lecture: “The Background of Carribean Literature”

Edmond Jabès

Lecture and Discussion: “La Question du Livre”

Allan Kaprow

Lecture: “Some Examples of Non-theatrical Performance”

French Theatre Exhibit

500 photographs of designs and productions (1955-1975) of the Renaud Barrault Company

International Symposium on Post-Modern Performance

with Israel Horovitz, Carolee Schneemann, Dick Higgins, David Cole, Campbell Tatham, Daniel Charles, Ihab Hassan, John Cage, Jean Clair, Hubert Damisch, Allan Kaprow, Jean-François Lyotard, Jerome Rothenberg, Herbert Blau, Teresa de Lauretis, Walter Rewar, Richard Hughes, Richard Palmer, Wladimir Krysinski, Raymond Federman, Eugène Ionesco, Carol Duncan, Umberto Eco, and Jackson Mac Low

Jean-François Lyotard

Lecture: “The Unconscious as Mise-en-Scene”

Eugène Ionesco

Lecture: “Why I Write”
Premiere of Play: Man With Bags

Open Seminar with Jean-François Lyotard

Presentation by Maureen Turim
Paper by John Kirk

Carol Rubenstein

Readings from her translations of chants, songs, and epics of the Sarawak Dayaks of East Malaysia

Herbert Blau

Lecture: “Letting Be Be the Finale: The Future of an Illusion”

Open Seminar with Herbert Blau

Paper by Timothy Wiles

John E Varey

Lecture: “Popular Entertainments and the Dissemination of Romantic Themes: A New Approach to Spanish Romanticism”

International Conference on Film/Theory/Video

Verna Fields

Presentation and Discussion

Newton and Helen Harrison

Slide Presentation and Readings from The House that Jack Built

Angelo Bertocci

Lecture on 19th Century romanticisms and the concepts of representation and imagination in literature and paintings

Ernst Haas

Open Class: “Techniques of Photojournalism”
Open Class: “Color Photography as a Fine Art”
Public Lecture: “The Poetry of Color Photography”

Cornelius Castoriadis

Lecture: “Logic and Society – A Critique of Structuralism”

Laurie Anderson

Multi-Media Performance: “For Instants – Part 5”

Meredith Monk

Slide Presentation

Paul Robeson Film Festival

Screening of The Song of Freedom and Discussion with Paul Robeson

Introduction and Response by Harold D. Weaver, Jr.

Paul Robeson Film Festival

Screening of The Emperor Jones and a BBC Interview with Robeson

Introduction and Follow-Up Discussion by Harold D. Weaver, Jr.

Frank Zeidler

Lecture: “The Impact of Technology on Book Culture”

Michel Benamou

Research Seminar: “The Shape of American Technocriticism”

Walter Heun

Slide presentation: “The Small World of Photography”
Workshops: “Light Exposures & Meters” and “Lenses and Their Functions”

International Symposium on Postindustrial Culture: Technology and the Public Sphere

with Michel Benamou, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Teresa de Lauretis, Darko Suvin, Daniel Charles, John Downey, Yehunda Yannay, James Carey, Eric J. Leed, Horace Newcomb, Helen Fehervary, Anson Rabinach, Raymond Merritt, Juergen Hoegl, J.C. Mathes, Anthony Wilden, Carroll Pursell, Janice Bogstad, Teresa Ebert, Patrick McNaughton, Ruth Kao, Jeanne Allen, Susan Noakes, Sheila Radford-Hill, Bernard Vincent, Andreas Huyssen, and Jack Zipes, Roy Behrens, Arnold Berleant, Jack Burnham, Frank Lutz, Charles Toman, and Kathleen Woodward

Michel Sanouillet

Lecture: “Lecture de Marcel Duchamp”

Nancy Willis

Slide Presentation: “The Gentle Art of Survival: Alternate Technologies”
Discussion: “Radical Agriculture and Bioshelters”

Michel Benamou

Lecture: “The Shape of American Technocriticism” (exact date unknown)

Joseph Riddel

Lecture: “The ‘Crypt’ of Edgar Poe”

Samuel R. Delany

Lecture: “Science Fiction”

Samuel R. Delany

Lecture: “The Gentle Art of Survival: Alternate Technologies”
Discussion: “Post-Disaster Survival Techniques”

Oskar Negt

Research Seminars: “The Culture Industry”
February 2, March 9, April 6, May, and May 11

International Film Conference IV: The Cinematic Apparatus: Technology as Historical and Ideological Form

This conference was designed as a working situation for film theory, unique in the Anglo-American context, for “a small number of active participants who write theoretically on cinema.” Many of the papers and discussions from the conference resulted in the book The Cinematic Apparatus (edited by Teresa de Lauretis and Stephen Heath).

Viviane Forrester

Lecture: “Madness, Masculine, Feminine: Virginia Woolf and Antonin Artaud”

Film Screening: Sambizanga

Hugues de Kerret

Slide Presentation on Mali

Batourou Sekou Kouyate, Diontan Tounkara, Nantenegwe Kamissoko, and Mori Kante

Performance: “The Gentle Art of Survival: Alternate Technologies”
An Evening of Mandinka Poetry and Song: “Musicians from Mali”

Patrick McNaughton

Lecture: “The Gentle Art of Survival: Alternate Technologies”
Discussion of Mali Bards and Blacksmiths

John Hostetler

Screening: The Amish: A People of Preservation

Stanley Aronowitz

Lecture: “Some Versions of Displacement: Derrida, Lacan, Marxism”

Panel Discussion: Marxist Theory Now

with Stanley Aronowitz, John Brenkman and Andreas Huyssen

Mihajlo Mihajlov

Lecture: “The Emerging Religious Renaussance in Eastern Europe”

Seminar: Displacement and the Jewish Writer

with Alan Corré, Edmond Jabès, Sydney Lévy, Raymond Federman, Charles Caramello, and Jerome Rothenberg

John Montague

Lecture: “Samuel Beckett: A Reading and Personal Glimpses”

Alvin Lucier

Lecture: “Music of Signs in Space”

David Herzberger

Lecture: “Theoretical Approaches to the Spanish New Novel:
Juan Benet and Juan Goytisolo”

Seminars on Contemporary Culture: Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo: “De la literature considera como una delicuencia” (“Of Literature Considered as Delinquency”)

Michael Ugarte: “Intertexuality in the Works of Juan Goytisolo”

Seminar with Juan Goytisolo: “Techniques in My Fiction”

Michel Gresset

Lecture: “The Present State of French Criticism: The Example of Faulkner”

John T. Irwin

Lecture: “The Illusion of Depth: The Ending of Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”

Marie-Pierre de Montgomery

Presentation on the Plato IV Computer-based education system

Barbara Rosenblum

Lecture: “New Approaches to the Sociology of Art”

Stuart Ewen

Lecture: “The Bribe of Frankenstein: The Cultural Promise of Modern Communications Technology”

International Film Theory Conference V: Cinema and Language

This was the fifth international film conference sponsored by the Center. The conference was organized by Pat Mellencamp and Carol Tennessen, and featured screenings and discussions with acclaimed filmmakers Marguerite Duras and Chantal Akerman.

Seminars on Contemporary Culture: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference

with Shoshana Felman, Jane Gallop, John Brenkman, Francois Peraldi, and Stephen Heath

Dean Conger

Visual Presentation

Ray Green

Lecture: “An Introduction to Manuel Puig”

Terrance Des Pres

Lecture: “Speculations on Demonic Form, or, What Mistah Kurtz Told Marlow to Tell Conrad to Tell Us, the Intended”

Stephen Heath

Lecture on Modernism and Language

A Panel Discussion Featuring Manuel Puig

with Luis Arata and Ray Green

Yury Nagibin

Lecture: “The Post-War Soviet Short Story”

Carlos Fuentes

Reading: A Vision of Mexico (in progress)

Carlos Fuentes

Seminar

Robert Duncan and Carl Rakosi

Seminar and Readings

Paul de Man

Lecture: “The Theory of Irony”

Lucien Stryk

Poetry Reading: “Zen and the Eye of the Poet”

Mark Costello

Reading: “Writing Fiction”

Thomas Banchoff

Lectures: “The Fourth Dimension” and “The Life of the Mind”

Siegfried Zielinski

Lecture and Screening: Holocaust in West Germany

Patrick Duffy

Lectures: “The Problem of Northern Ireland: A British Perspective” and “NATO and the Future of Europe”

Rockwell Gray

Lecture: “Autobiography Now”

Robert Boyers

Lecture: “Confronting the Present: The Travel Memoir as Political Statement”

Kurt Wolff

Lecture: “Surrender and Autobiography”

Symposium: The Autobiographical Mode: New Ideas of the Self

with Saul Bellow, Herbert Blau, J. M. Cameron, Paul de Man, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ihab Hassan, Mark Krupnick, Barbara Myerhoff, Richard Poirier, Jane Gallop, Rockwell Gray, Barbara Johnson, Peggy Kamuf, Mary Lydon, George Morgan, Ann Barr Snitow, and Mary K. Wakeman

Mary Gerhart

Lecture: “The Question of Belief in Literary Criticism”

Jane Gallop

Lecture: “Of Phallic Proportions: Lacanian Conceit”

Thomas Sebeok

Lecture: “Man-Animal Communication: Pitfalls and Opportunities”

Gianni Vattimo

Lectures: “Nietzsche and the Waning of the Subject” and “The Crisis of Marxism in Italian Culture”

Seminar: “Hermeneutics and Analytic Philosophy”

International Film Theory Conference VI: Cinema and Film: Conditions of Presence

with Dudley Andrew, Mary Ann Doane, Larry Crawford, Phillip Rosen, Douglas Gomery, Sally Potter, Jane Weinstock, Joan Copjec, Herbert Blau, Robert Nelson, Michael Budd, Steven Fagin, Jane Feuer, Teresa de Lauretis, Claire Johnston, Linda Williams, Michelle Citron, Jean-Louis Schefer, Abraham Polonsky, Don Druker, Charles Affron, Strother Purdy, Jane Gaines, Claire Pajaczkowska, Ivan Ward, Anthony McCall, Andrew Tyndall, Jane Weinstock, Maria-Antoinietta Macciocchi, Stephen Heath, John Brenkman, and Shoshana Felma, Maureen Turim

Scott Greer

Lecture: “The Training and/or Evolution of Intellectuals”

Rockwell Gray

Lecture: “Time Present and Time Past: The Ground of Autobiography”

Jack Zipes

Lecture: “German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Holocaust”

Symposium: Religion After Freud and Jung

with James Hillman, J. Giles Milhaven, David Miller, Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, William Richardson, Antoince Vergote, Peter Homans, Stanley Hopper, David Kolb, Sebastian Moore, John Muller, and Judith Van Herik

Robert Bly

Lecture: “Three Life Stories That We Live”

Mark Krupnick

Lecture: “Intellectual Styles: Literature and Social History”