Lecture by Leah Hewitt

Author of Remembering the Occupation in French Film (2008), professor Leah Hewitt of Amherst College discusses representations of the Holocaust in French cinema including Claude Miller’s A Secret, screening later that evening at 7 PM.

A public reception in the lower lobby follows the lecture.

Organized by Distinguished Humanities Professor of French Judith Mayne and Assistant Professor Dana Renga, both in Ohio State’s Department of French and Italian, these events are presented with support from an OSU Research and Creative Activity Grant and cosponsored by Ohio State’s Departments of French and Italian, Comparative Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and History of Art, and the university’s Film Studies Program, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, and Wexner Center for the Arts.