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Bringing America together, Taking the Nazis Apart: Hollywood Jews, Moviemaking During World War II, and Implicating Film in the Third Reich

Judaica Suite, Library East

Michael Berkowitz is Professor of modern Jewish history at University College London and editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (UCL Press).  Please join him for a public talk on film during World War II. Professor Berkowitz received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and taught previously at the

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The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville

Smather's Library and the English Department would like to invite you to the Gainesville screening of the internationally Award-winning documentary, "The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin" on April 4th 2019, in Smathers 100 from 3:30-6:30. The documentarian/filmmaker Arwen Curry will be present to answer questions after the screening. Ursula K. Le Guin passed away

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Dream Empire with David Borenstein

The PICT Theater of Research Education and Visualization Environment at the Digital Worlds Institute (Normal Gym Building, 2nd FL)

Film screening and discussion with the Filmmaker David Borenstein. Yana’s company uses actors to turn remote Chinese ghost towns into temporary “international booming cities,” tricking visitors into buying overpriced property. But when the real estate market starts to collapse, she faces financial ruin. Released in 2016, Dream Empire is a boom to bust tale set

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