March
9, 2004
Oakton Film Program Mines Culture Controversy
An independent film about controversial archaeologist Marija Gimbutas will be screened and discussed at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 23, as part of Women's History Month at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road. Signs Out of Time, narrated by Olympia Dukakis, is presented as part of the Oakton Library's "Beautiful Minds" series. A moderated discussion with Joan Cichon, professor of library services, follows the screening.
When Marija Gimbutas died in 1994, she was already considered one of the 20th century's most influential archaeologists. Signs Out of Time, a film by Starhawk and Donna Read, combines interviews, archival footage, photographs, and narration to portray the scope of her career. Like Galileo and other so-called "heretics," Gimbutas' descriptions and theories regarding the life affirming culture of Old Europe rocked the foundations of her scientific society. Widely acclaimed by those in the growing earth-based spirituality movement, her work also has been attacked by scholars with opposing views.
Born in 1921, Gimbutas fled her native Lithuania during World War II and eventually came to the United States. She was a Peabody Fellow at Harvard throughout the 1950s, and later became a professor at UCLA, where she founded the department of Indo-European studies and directed five major excavations in Eastern Europe.
For more information about Signs Out of Time, visit www.belili.org.
"Beautiful Minds," a series designed to spotlight the passions of Oakton faculty, staff, and administrators, meets in the Des Plaines Campus Library, Lower Level. These programs are free and open to the public; groups of 10 or more are asked to register by calling the Library's Reference Desk at 847-635-1644. For more information, call Joan Cichon at 847-635-1727.
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