**Apologies for cross-postings** Hello, all. An off-list colleague, Barton Byg, has asked me to forward the following three announcements. For more information on any of them, please contact Barton directly at <[log in to unmask]> or <[log in to unmask]>. --Marty Norden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin F. Norden OO Dept. of Communication, Box 34815 [log in to unmask] [_]<| University of Massachusetts-Amherst fax: 413 545-6399 /|\ Amherst, MA 01003-4815 USA vox: 413 545-0598, -1311 home page: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~norden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: BARTON B BYG <[log in to unmask]> Subject: DEFA Film Library News Announcing: Fall Conference, Summer Travel Stipends, Video Catalog I. Fall 1999 Conference: "The Power of Images: Representing Germany Ten Years After Reunification." An international, interdisciplinary conference featuring artists, political and cultural figures and scholars examining the role of images in structuring relations between East and West Germans as well as between Germany and the U.S. Accompanying the conference will be a film series, "Berlin, Divided Heaven -- From the Ice Age to the Thaw," including a number of North American premieres. Held in conjunction with the Northampton Film Festival and subsequently to tour the U.S. and Canada. Also at the conference: the premiere of ICESTORM International's video release of the documentary "The Fall fo the Wall: The Path to German Reunification." Held on the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (4 - 6 November 1999). For more information and registration forms contact the DEFA Film Library, address below. II. Two Summer Study Travel Stipends for Graduate Students. Grants from $300 to $500 for graduate student travel expenses for research visits to the DEFA Film Library in summer 1999. Any full-time graduate student is welcome to apply. Deadline for application 30 June 1999. Contact DEFA Film Library for application form and research proposal guidelines at address below. III. If you have put off ordering East German films on video from ICESTORM'S premiere catalog, please remember to do so by the end of your institution's fiscal year. This will also help ensure that another full catalog of titles with newly subtitled and restored films will be available by fall. If you still need a catalog of the 15 films now being made available for educational use, contact ICESTORM International at [log in to unmask] (tel. 413-587-9334). Many thanks, Barton Byg Director, DEFA Film Library Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures Herter Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 tel. 413-545-6681 fax 413-545-6995 e-mail: [log in to unmask] www.umass.edu/defa The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the only archive and study center outside Europe dedicated to the study of the cinema of Eastern Germany, especially the productions of DEFA (the state-owned film studios of the former German Democratic Republic). Films and videos are available for rental from the DEFA film Library under licenses from Progress Film-Verleih GmbH and ICESTORM International LLC, under agreements with the DEFA Foundation (Berlin). ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite