<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Today - Professor Michael Renov Public Lecture</b></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font style="font-size:12.8px" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally renowned <span>film</span> scholar, Professor Michael Renov, titled <b>"Documenting the Arctic Sublime",<span> </span></b>presente</font><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">d by the School of Media, <span>Film</span> and Journalism, with thanks to the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University<br></span><br><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Date:</b> Monday, 19<sup>th</sup> September 2016 <br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Time: </b>4:30pm</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Place:</b> Lecture Theatre, H238, Level 2, Building H, Monash Caulfield Campus<br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px" class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">This talk examines how the notion of the sublime has come to be so strongly associated with human enc</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">ounters with the far north while offering a framework – historical and conceptual – for understanding the documentative urge that has arisen from and is tied up with those encounters. </span><span style="color:black">If the category of the sublime is most associated with 19th</span> <span style="color:black">century European romanticism and the writings of Burke, Kant, Wordsworth and Coleridge, how, this talk asks, does the mixture of awe, rapture and terror associated with that term come to have a particular connection to the experience and representation of the far north? This talk maps out this notion of the arctic sublime as a quite specific context for an instance of what I have elsewhere called “documentary desire,” that unquenchable drive to record and meditate on the sounds and images of the world. To that end I sketch out the role of artists, photographers, filmmakers and videographers as agents of an Arctic-based documentative urge culminating in a brief look at one film,</span> <i><span style="color:black">Skagafjörður</span></i> <span style="color:black">(2002-2004)<wbr>,</span> <span style="color:black">produced by American experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton.</span><span style="color:black"> </span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div title="Page 1"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Michael Renov </b></span><span style="color:black"> is the Haskell Wexler Chair in Documentary and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of</span><span style="color:black"> </span><i style="color:black">Hollywood's Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology</i><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><i style="color:black">The Subject of Documentary</i><span style="color:black">, editor of</span><span style="color:black"> </span><i style="color:black">Theorizing Documentary</i><span style="color:black">, and co-editor of</span><span style="color:black"> </span><i style="color:black">Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices</i><span style="color:black">,</span><span style="color:black"> </span><i style="color:black">Collecting Visible Evidence</i><span style="color:black">, </span><i style="color:black">The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies</i><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><i style="color:black">Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Peter Forgacs. </i></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0px" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">He is at Monash as an </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.133333px">ACJC Dr Jan Randa Visiting Scholar</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">to participate in </span><br></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rethinking Holocaust Paradigms - Dr Jan Randa Aftermath Conference 2016</font></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></font></p></div><br><br><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#999999" size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr Kirsten Stevens</font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#999999">Teaching Associate</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#999999">Research Assistant<br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#999999">Film and Screen Studies</font></div><div><font color="#999999"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="https://monash.academia.edu/KirstenStevens" target="_blank">https://monash.academia.edu/Ki<wbr>rstenStevens</a><span> </span> <br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#999999"><br>School of Media, Film and Journalism<br>Monash University<br>Caulfield East <br>VIC 3145, Australia<br>Ph. 61 438 288 567<br><br></font><div><font color="#999999"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We acknowledge the Traditional Owners, and Elders past and present, </span><br></font></div><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">of all the lands on which Monash University operates.</font></div></div><br></div></div>
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