Linda Williams, Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at University of California at Berkeley, will lead a discussion seminar entitled, "Philosophy in the Bedroom: Graphic Sex and the Contemporary Art Film," following her second lecture on Wednesday (11/09, "Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1960-71)").
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).