Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
¾¨Ó㴫ý's Jake Erhardt International Film Series will conclude the semester with the 1992 Italian film Ciao, Professore Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of McKelvey Campus Center.
The event is free and open to the public. A short introduction will be given and a discussion will follow.
In the film, a bureaucratic snafu sends a portly, middle-aged northern Italian to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples. His first challenge is to increase attendance and then convince his students that classroom learning has real-world payoffs. North-South contrasts abound, including a hilarious soliloquy on the nature of Switzerland.
Additional information on the film is available .
The International Film Series is named in honor of its founder, Dr. Jacob Erhardt, professor of German emeritus at ¾¨Ó㴫ý. Erhardt, who taught at ¾¨Ó㴫ý from 1968 until his retirement in 2004, served as chair of his department from 1970-1986, was named the Language Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania State Modern Languages Association, translated into English Robert Reitzel's Adventures of a Greenhorn, and was recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as an outstanding member.
Contact Dr. Deborah Mitchell, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of English and film studies and coordinator of the film series, at (724) 946-7030 or email for more information.
