CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Europe Now: Rapture at Depth: The rhetoric of enchantment in dive documentation
Thursday January 24, 2013 | 05:30
-07:00 PM
| Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
As part of The Europe Center’s ongoing lecture series “Europe Now”, Stanford professor Margaret Cohen will bring to light documentary narratives by dive pioneers of the 1920s-1950′s (Beebe, Hass, Taillez, Diolé), and why these documentarians turn to a poetic imagery of marvels and enchantments to express aspects of human perception.
Professor Cohen is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization and Professor of Comparative Literature
Free and open to the public.
RSVP required by 5pm January 21st., Please visit:
http://europe.stanford.edu/events/registration/7358/