Weeks Distinguished Visitor Linda Williams (U.C. Berkeley Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric) Discussion Seminar

Linda Williams, Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at University of California at Berkeley, will lead a discussion seminar entitled, "Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses," following her first lecture on Monday (11/07, "Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Film").

Williams was director of the Film Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley from 1998 to 2004. She is the author of "Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White, from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson" (2001).