The Green Bay Film Society will present the next International Film of the semester on Wednesday, November 18th at 7:00 pm in the auditorium of the Neville Public Museum.

Emma’s Bliss
Germany, 2006

Max, a car salesman, has been diagnosed with cancer and faced with the knowledge that he doesn’t have much longer to live. He impulsively steals money and a car and sets out to flee. By chance he encounters Emma, an eccentric young woman who lives alone on a farm with a different conception of life and death. Director Sven Taddicken’s odd and wondrous film about death and dying pointedly contrasts Western medicine’s sometimes intrusive approach to prolonging life by any means necessary with a graceful acceptance of the inevitable.

All are welcome to attend.

More information on the Green bay Film Society may be found here.

Le fils de l’épicier (2007) ["The Grocer's Son"]

Tuesday, November 17th at 2p.m.
Christie Theatre
University of Wisconsin – Green Bay

It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence.  His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants.  Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny and endearing.  Ultimately, this surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man re-discovering life and love in the countryside. (96 min.)

“GRACEFUL.  INFLECTED WITH IMMENSE EMOTION.”
–Michelle Orange, The Village Voice – Review

“CAPTIVATING…INTOXICATING.  THIS VALENTINE TO COUNTRY LIFE IS…THAT PROVERBIAL GEM THAT ART-HOUSE FANS SHOULD DISCOVER AND SAVOR.”
–Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International – Review

“THE GROCER’S SON IS AN UNALLOYED PLEASURE, START TO FINISH.”
–Jim Van Maanen, Green Cine – Review

A HEARTFELT TALE [WITH] SUBTLE MOMENTS OF INSIGHT RARELY CAPTURED IN MOVIES.”
–Prairie Miller, News Blaze – Review

SEDUCTIVE…IRRESISTIBLE…REMARKABLE THROUGHOUT.”
–Ronnie Scheib, Variety – Review

“Like taking a vacation to the French countryside and meeting people there of whom you grow extraordinarily fond, The Grocer’s Son is an unalloyed pleasure, start to finish.”
- Green Cine Daily

Sponsored by Le Cercle Français and the French Program of HUS unit, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

TUESDAY 11/17

2:00—4:00 International French Film The Grocers Son in the Christie Theatre
Sponsored by the French Program and Cercle Français.

5:00—6:00 Food for Thought
Come enjoy great international food and learn firsthand what it means to be a part of the global community.
Sponsored by the Ecumenical Center and the International Club—Ecumenical Center

7:00 Kevin Soucie French Concert in the Christie Theatre
Sponsored by the Cercle Français.

WEDNESDAY 11/18

11:30-12:30 La Table Française avec Marie Gauvain

4:00—6:00 International Film  L’Auberge Espagnol in the Christie Theatre
Sponsored by the Spanish Program & the Spanish Club.

the Berlin Wall fell:

More at Deutsche Welle’s 20 Years Fall of the Wall.

Spinoza’s Chunky Clumps:
Spinoza and the problem of Individuation

Professor Christopher Martin
will discuss what it is about any thing that makes it the thing that it is and not something else!

Friday, November 13
2:00-3:00 pm
University Union, Alumni A
(in back of Cloud Commons)
UW-Green Bay Campus

The Department of Humanistic Studies and the Brown County Library invite you to participate in the next Great Books Discussion Tuesday, November 10 on the Lower Level of the Brown County Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay) beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451
presented by Professor David Voelker, UWGB History Department

The discussion is free and open to the public.  Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend.  Of course, we encourage you to read the book before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot, you may find the session enlightening.

See you there!

Gabriel Saxton-Ruiz is a new faculty member in Humanistic Studies and Spanish.  We thought you might like to know a little more about your professor and colleague, so we asked him a few questions about himself.

Where did you go to college?

Virginia Tech; University of Tennessee

Who was your favorite professor and why?

Luis Cano – he has a wonderful sense of humor, and was not afraid of including Science Fiction/Hard-boiled Detective Novels in “serious” PhD seminars.

You have a PhD in what field?

Modern Foreign Languages (major: Spanish; 2nd concentration: French Studies; 3rd concentration: Applied Linguistics)

What did you do your research on?

Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Political Violence

What are your current research interests?

I will be presenting a paper (tentatively titled) “Political science fiction in the plays of Juan Rivera Saavedra,” at the Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro en Puebla, Mexico next July.  I am also interested in translating some recent Peruvian novels/short stories.

What courses do you teach?

Spanish Language, Culture and Literature courses

How would you describe your teaching style?

I enjoy classes that are interactive.   I prefer having my students express themselves and relate the texts they read to their own reality.  I try not to lecture for an hour and fifteen minutes.

What do you like to do for fun?

I love to play and watch soccer…I support Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo (Peru).  Music – I was a College Radio DJ and worked at a record store…but I don’t wear Kurt Rambis glasses. Cooking – I am the cook in the house – I tend to prepare lots of Peruvian and Spanish dishes.  Family – I love spending time with my wife and kids.

What was the last good book you read?

La paz de los vencidos by Jorge Eduardo Benavides (Tree of Smoke translated by Denis Johnson).

If we looked at your playlist what would we find?

1. Thirteen – Big Star
2. God Loves You, Michael Chang – Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
3. Ando Meio Desligado – Os Mutantes
4. Shoot You Down – Stone Roses
5. Ain’t Got No/I Got Life – Nina Simone
6. The Concept – Teenage Fanclub
7. Here Comes Your Man – Pixies
8. Town Called Malice – The Jam
9. If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart – Beulah
10. Candy – Morphine
11. Northern Sky – Nick Drake
12. The Journey To Serra da Estrela – The Phenomenal Handclap Band
13. I’m So Tired Of Being Alone – Al Green
14. Staring At The Sun – TV On The Radio
15. This Life Makes Me Wonder – Delroy Wilson
16. Lo que ves es lo que hay – Rubín y los Subtitulados
17. Anything by the Beatles, Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder and Paco de Lucía…

Vince Lowery is a new faculty member in Humanistic Studies and History.  We thought you might like to know a little more about your professor and colleague, so we asked him a few questions about himself.

Where did you go to college? 

University of Mississippi

Who was your favorite professor and why?

Ted Ownby – open to anything, always thinking outside the box – and Winthrop Jordan – the most challenging professor I have ever encountered who transformed my analytical and writing skills.

You have a PhD in what field?

History

What did you do your research on? 

Popular Memories of the Ku Klux Klan, 1870s-1920s

What are your current research interests? 

Popular Culture/Memory; New South Boosterism

What courses do you teach? 

US History, African American History, Ethnic Diversity

How would you describe your teaching style?

Energetic, Passionate

What do you like to do for fun? 

Golf, moviegoing (neither of which are done with great frequency), and getting to know Green Bay with my family

What was the last good book you read?

Amy Wood’s Lynching and Spectacle and John Coski’s The Confederate Battle Flag.

If we looked at your playlist what would we find?

Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), Grizzly Bear, The Swell Season

Professor Brian Sutton was selected as this year’s recipient for the Founders Award for Institutional Development.  Professor Sutton was recognized for his service across a wide array of University initiatives and campus governance groupss, including service on the UW-Green Bay Faculty Senate, as chairman of the University’s General Education Council and the  Committee on Awards and Recognition, in addition to numerous additional committees and working groups. This fall he begins a one-year term as chairman of the University Committee and the concurrent role as speaker of the Senate. Sutton began his faculty career at UW-Green Bay in 1992.