CafeLitt 157: Tintin II

Thu 11 Feb 2010, 19:00, by Dr. Shahdad Heydari, at Atwater Library:1200 avenue Atwater, Montreal, QC (Map)

Hergé's Tintin cartoons have been read by tens of millions and his silhouette- a young man wearing golf trousers, running with a white FoxTerrier by his side, is easily one of the most recognizable visual icons of the modern world. This presentation will offer a comprehensive and critical overview of the Tintin series. Starting with the character's humble origins in the children's supplement of a Belgian catholic newspaper in the 1920's, Tintin's development and success throughout the decades, including the stormy World War II years, will be tracked. Some of the books will be analyzed in detail, both in the context of the series, and in its larger framework.

Please read the albume of  The Castafiore Emerald before the session (Persian pdf).

You can watch the first session here: CafeLitt 156: Tintin I



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CaféLitt is not a place; it is a gathering of minds. We are a group of mostly Persian young students, scholars and professionals who gather every Thursday evening around 19h00 to discuss various subjects and share different ideas, ranging vastly from history to science, from literature to fine arts. We started these gatherings on Jan 17th, 2006 with 5 people and have reached an average weekly audience of about 40 people. Each week, one of us takes the responsibility of presenting a topic for about an hour in a subject s/he is intimately familiar with or has an expertise in. Afterwards, the evening turns into a discussion forum and all members of the audience will have an opportunity to ask their question(s) and share their points of view.

Some new and exciting ideas were born out of CaféLitt sessions. We have started a series of monthly meetings called CaféCinema during which a movie is presented and discussed in some detail afterward. This year's program of CaféCinema revolves around the history of Iranian cinema. Some Cinema students hold these sessions (mainly conducted in English) on the last Sunday of each month.

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CaféScience and CaféPhilo are our plans for near future. The purpose of CaféScience is to provide a forum for the public discussion and understanding of all scientific findings and ideas, with an emphasis on new, interesting and publicly relevant topics. During CaféPhilo sessions, we will talk about philosophy, its history and all its related aspects.

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