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CCGES > 2010 > January

Film Screening: Jean Renoir’s “Grand Illusion” (1937)

Posted: January 19, 2010

La Grande IllusionYork’s European Studies Programme will be screening Jean Renoir’s 1937 Film “Grand Illusion” on Thursday, February 11th from 12:30 – 2:30 pm in the Nat Taylor Cinema (N102 Ross Building, building #28 on the map found here).

“Grand Illusion” examines class relationships among a small group of French officers who are prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.

The screening will be shown in a dubbed, English version and is open to all!

Time: 12:30 – 2:30 pm
Location: Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building

Two Lectures by Anthony Julius

Posted: January 18, 2010

Anthony JuliusThe Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education at York University is pleased to present two lectures by Anthony Julius, an eminent British lawyer, academic, and public intellectual, who successfully defended historian Deborah Lipstadt against Holocaust denier David Irving. Julius also represented Princess Diana.

Saturday, February 13th, 8 pm – “Holocaust Denial – What’s the Point?”

Sunday, February 14th, 2:30 pm – “How Can Good Literature Be Bad for the Jews?” (CONTINUE READING)