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Aaron Cohick is a Colorado-based printer, artist, and publisher. He is the founder and proprietor of the NewLights Press and Printer of the Press at Colorado College. During this artist talk, he will share insights into the intersection of books, print, animation, and experimental creation.

As part of a Global Cinema Classics Fall Film Series, a public screening of the film Black Girl will be held.

"Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s." -The Criterion Collection

As part of a Global Cinema Classics Fall Film Series, a public screening of the film The Battle of Algiers will be held.

"One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today." - The Criterion Collection

Selecting books that reflect and celebrate the diversity of students' backgrounds, cultures, and experiences is a common educational practice, with documented benefits.  Panelists will discuss current attacks on such books (Shireen Campbell, English and Educational Studies), the benefits of culturally relevant content for students (Tracy Bailey, Educational Studies, & Maddie Wagler, ’26), and research on relevance and literacy (Rebeca Fernandez, Educational Studies).

Look for additional Banned Book Week events across campus involving a collaborative effort between faculty, library staff, and other 17³Ô¹ÏÍø community members!

Clint Smith ’10 is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling poetry collection Above Ground and the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Clint received his B.A. in English from 17³Ô¹ÏÍø and a Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

Priority for tickets will be given to students (1 per CatCard) and employees (2 per CatCard), available starting September 2. Remaining tickets will be made available to the public starting October 6. 

Seating will be first come, first served with overflow seating available in the C. Shaw Smith 900 Room (Alvarez College Union).

What makes a work of literature good quality? What makes a work of literature morally or ethically good? What do we do with good art made by bad people?

A panel of literary minds will grapple with these questions and as they collectively examine the idea of "good literature" through their diverse perspectives. Participating in this discussion will be three English professors (Dr. Fox, Dr. Jensen, and Dr. Vincent) as well as the editors for Hobart Park (Abby Brissett & Sofia Cimballa) and Libertas (Caroline Ewing & Cate Goodin).

As part of a Global Cinema Classics Fall Film Series, a public screening of the film Close-Up will be held.

"Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and CLOSE-UP is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, CLOSE-UP has resonated with viewers around the world." -The Criterion Collection

Senior writer at Andscape, author of the award-winning book The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride, and former Around the Horn contestant, David Dennis, Jr. headlines a potentially contentious panel discussion on sports and sports media with members of 17³Ô¹ÏÍø's sports and journalism community.