2014 Writer's Symposium by the Sea: Writing That's Raw

87Some like it raw. Writing, that is.

The theme for the 19th year of Writer’s Symposium by the Sea is “writing that’s raw.” If you ask author and memoirist Anne Lamott what that means, she will suggest (in her oh-so charming way) that you tell the truth and “take out all the stuff that’s show-offy and overkill.”

Lamott is just one of the authors to sit with Dean Nelson during this year’s Writer’s Symposium. Other writers include best-selling author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, and author, New York Times columnist and master storyteller, Samuel Freedman.

Don’t miss this year’s Writer’s Symposium by the Sea 2014:

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UCSD-TV partners with Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) to present highlights from the Writer’s Symposium By The Sea, an annual event for the community that, in the words of host and director of PLNU’s journalism program Dean Nelson, “would inspire, encourage and celebrate great writing.”

Find inspiration, encouragement and celebrate great writing at ucsd.tv/writers/.

World Cinema Saturdays: Schlockalypse Now

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As noted elsewhere, the best science fiction and fantasy films reflect their era and cultural environment. Some observers argue that this dictum applies even more strongly to the – how should one put it delicately – to the more offbeat examples of the genre. Let the viewer be the judge (while acknowledging that not every filmmaker can be Bergman).

Don’t miss this week’s movies:

1761 Creature From the Haunted Sea
American crook Sparks Moran sees a chance to make a bundle when a Caribbean island has a revolution.
(USA, 1961, B&W, 69 mins, dir. Roger Corman, with Antony Carbone & Betsy Jones-Moreland)


1754 The Giant Gila Monster
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster.
(USA, 1959, B&W, 74 mins, dir. Ray Kellogg, with Don Sullivan & Fred Graham)


1742 White Zombie
A devilish scientist is hired by a man, to change the girl he likes into a zombie so he can marry her, since she truly does love another. But a twist happens when the scientist captures the man as well to turn him into a zombie as well. But there is a happy ending.
(USA, 1932, B&W, dir. Victor Halperin, with Bela Lugosi & Madge Bellamy)


1742 The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
After a car crash, a man keeps his wife’s head alive in his laboratory. To complicate matters, an evil beast pounds and screams from a locked room adjacent to the lab.
(USA, 1962, B&W, 82 mins, dir. Joseph Green, with Herb Evers, Virginia Leith & Leslie Daniel)


1742 Robot Monster
Moon monsters launch attack against Earth! Only science can keep the astral assassins at bay.
(USA, 1953, B&W, 66 mins, dir. Phil Tucker, with George Nader & Claudia Barrett)


1742 The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancee Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn.
(Germany, 1919, B&W, 51 min, dir. Robert Weine, with Conrad Veidt, Silent)


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Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing In Human Evolution

772They are the most precious product of humanity. Like all living things, they are why, at the most fundamental level, we exist — offspring. They are why a few thousand individuals spread out of Africa so many eons ago, and why we eventually populated every habitable environment on the planet.

So this time around, CARTA, The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny asked, what role does childrearing have in making us human?

Here is what the symposium participants considered when asking themselves that question:

From the moment of birth, human infants require an inordinate amount of care and, unlike our nearest living relatives, remain dependent on a variety of caretakers during an unusually long maturation period followed by extraordinary adult longevity. How did such a distinctive pattern of development evolve and what other human features are linked to it?

When you look at it that way, which the experts of CARTA did, it becomes clear that our childrearing had something very important to do with our evolution, and this CARTA symposium takes a deep look at this – from the hormones that modify our behaviors and guide our development, to how different caretakers over the human lifespan mold the societies that mold the individuals that will carry humanity forward.

From the very first cognitive experiences an infant has with its mother, to the influence of breastfeeding and differences in breast milk itself, to how the organization of social economies affects and is affected by childrearing roles, this series provides fascinating insights into how we may have developed those most essential traits that made us, and hopefully will keep us, human.

Watch online: CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution

For more CARTA videos, visit www.ucsd.tv/carta.

World Cinema Saturdays: Jean Renoir

381Jean Renoir’s gently humanistic films were sorely underestimated when they first came out. They were unconventional, complex, and so energetic and technically daring that few noticed their intricate structure. The films were often dismissed as rough, and not fully achieved artistically. However, the generation that came to the cinema in the ’60s and ’70s (perhaps the richest and most diverse era in European cinema) recognized Renoir as an ancestor who had already made the kind of films they admired or were setting out to make themselves, and justly hailed them as masterpieces.

Don’t miss this week’s movies:

1761 Boudu Saved From Drowning
Boudu, a tramp, jumps into the Seine. He is rescued by Mr. Lestingois, a gentle and good bookseller, who gives shelter to him. Mrs. Lestingois and the maid Anne-Marie (Mr. Lestingois’ mistress) are far from delighted.
(France, 1932, 85 mins, dir. Jean Renoir, with Michel Simon & Charles Grandval, French with English subtitles)


1754 La Bete Humaine
Severine and her husband, Roubaud, kill their former employer in a train.
(France, 1938, 100 mins, dir. Jean Renoir, with Jean Gabin & Julien Carette, French with English subtitles)


1742 The Grand Illusion
During the 1st World War, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life.
(France, 1937, 93 mins, dir. Jean Renoir, with Jean Gabin & pierre Fresnay, French with English subtitles)


1742 The Rules of the Game
Andre Jurieux has flown over the Atlantic to set a new record, but when he arrives in Paris, he is very sad that his lover, Christine, isn’t there.
(France, 1939, 106 mins, dir. Jean Renoir, with Marcel Dalio & Nora Gregor, French with English subtitles)


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2014 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea

Writer’s Symposium by the Sea host Dean Nelson welcomes back Anne Lamott who stresses the importance of finding your own voice. Guest Jeannette Walls speaks about dysfunctional family love and loyalty, and Samuel Freedman talks about creating powerful narratives.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pulitzer-prize winning author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee explains how he sees cancer as a lens in which to view society and calls on the cancer community to demand more support for cancer therapies, treatments and prevention.

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To Janos with Love

János Négyesy died on Dec. 20, 2013. In lieu of what would have been his 80th Soirée for Music Lovers, we pay tribute to Maestro Négyesy on Valentine’s Day with a concert featuring performances by faculty members, peers, alumni and students.

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An Evening with Samuel Freedman — Point Loma Writer’s Symposium By the Sea 2014

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