Continuing the theme of this academic year’s Humanities on the Edge speakers, João Moreira Salles addresses images and aftermath of revolution in his documentary film No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now). The film uses archival found footage--as well as footage taken by Salles’s own mother on a tour through Maoist China in 1966--in order to explore the many faces of revolution in the late 1960s, and particularly the 1968 revolutionaries of Paris and Prague. In his review of

“Humanity can progress of its own accord” were the last words of Professor Ronald Judy’s lecture, “Restless Flying from Haiti to Tunisia: What is ‘After Revolution’ Anyway?” I begin this review with the conclusion of Dr. Judy’s lecture solely for this reason: after-revolution is just the beginning point of imagining the full capacity of our humanity. At the heart of this year’s Humanities on the Edge series is the concept of “Post Revolutionary Futures." The second lecture of

The Humanities on the Edge lectures for this academic year take on the question of “Post-Revolutionary Futures.” If Timothy Brown’s recent lecture on the events of 1968 and the Russian Revolution laid the historical groundwork for asking the question, “Is revolution still possible?,” next week’s lecture by Ronald Judy promises to approach this question in terms of the very conditions of imagining revolution and what may follow it. On Thursday, October 19th, at 5:30pm in the S