Please attend Professor Margaret Cohen’s talk, “Piscinéma, from Man Ray to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” on Thursday, February 27 from 12-2 pm in the Knight Browsing Room.

Professor Cohen is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Stanford University. She also directs Stanford’s Center for the Study of the Novel.

She is the author of two prize-winners: The Sentimental Education of the Novel and The Novel and The Sea. Professor Cohen’s forthcoming book Underwater Eye deals with the history of cinema shot underwater. She is editing a multivolume Cultural History of the Sea forthcoming with Bloomsbury Press.

Her visit takes place under the auspices of Dr. Fabienne Moore’s new course, FR 460/560: Law and Empire of the Seas. Dr. Moore, an Associate Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages, developed the course with the support of an Oregon Humanities Center 2019-20 Sherl K. Coleman and Margaret E. Guitteau Teaching Professorship.