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Faculty Forum Continues at Westminster College

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Dr. Jeffrey Bersett, assistant professor of Spanish at Westminster College, will speak at Faculty Forum Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 11:30 a.m. in the McKelvey Campus Center.

His presentation is "Sex, Drugs and the Mambo Taxi: Madrid and Post-Franco Spain in Two Films by Pedro Almod var."

"It deals with the ways in which Almod var presents the changes in his country during the first two decades following the death of Francisco Franco, and the fall of the fascist government," Bersett said. "I use two films Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and Live Flesh, as examples of Almod var's depiction of the confusion and fear and jubilation that Spaniards experienced during and after Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy."

Faculty forum, established in 1990, serves as a venue for the exchange of ideas and information among Westminster College faculty. Speakers present their research, teaching ideas, lectures, performances, special programs, and uses of technology to keep faculty informed about the work of colleagues from many disciplines.

Bersett, who came to Westminster in 2002, earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University, and his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

For more information, contact Bersett at (724) 946-7259 or e-mail bersetjt@westminster.edu.