Tuesday, February 20, 2018
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (ET)
PALMTN Davis Auditorium
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
5463
Department
Classics
Link
http://ems.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=19025
Andrea Eis (Professor and Director of Cinema Studies, Oakland University, Rochester, MI) will screen and discuss her film, Penelope's Odyssey.
Shot on location in Greece, this provocative work projects a journey of homecoming (nostos) onto Penelope, the wife of the well-traveled Homeric hero, Odysseus. Quotes from Homer's Odyssey and authorial commentary anchor segments that fluctuate between cinematic subjectivity and invasive camerawork. Penelope’s "home" is both a tangible, comforting habitat and an internalized dwelling of estrangement.
The David H. Porter Classical World Lecture honors David Porter for his contributions to the College as former president, to the Classics Department as emeritus professor and inaugural holder of the Tisch Family Distinguished Professorship, and to the humanities at large. The event is a highlight of the spring term and part of the Department's gateway course, CC 200: The Classical World.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Film & Media Studies and Gender Studies.