Film studies scholar Stephen Price will speak today on "Cinema and Cinematography in the 21st Century."
The talk on the future of film will be from 5:30 to 6 p.m. today in Beaird Lounge of the union.
Film and Video Studies and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies is sponsoring screenings of the international films "Virginia" and "Bandit Queen" as part of the event at 7 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public.
Film festival continues tonight with documentary
The Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival will have its third free screening tonight at 7 at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
The theme is "Rethinking America," and will include documentaries on racism in America.
"Ota Benga," a short film on scientific racism (pictured), and "An Injury to One," which concerns the lynching of a union organizer in 1917 will be screened and OU anthropology professor Jason Baird Jackson will lead a discussion afterward.
The films and discussion will take place in Kerr Auditorium. The festival runs every Thursday through Oct 23.
Free art symposium begins today at union
The Russell Center and the OU School of Art have joined to present a symposium on the art colony of Taos, New Mexico this weekend.
"Drawn to the Light: The Artists of Taos" begins with a keynote address in Oklahoma Memorial Union Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. and more talks beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday in Meacham Auditorium.
Featured speakers include Dean Porter, director emeritus for the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, who will give the keynote address; several New Mexico museum curators and art historians.
The events are free and open to anyone who registers, except for the luncheon Friday, which costs $15. For a full list of speakers and the online registration form, go to http://art.ou.edu and click on Facilities, then click on Russell Center.
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