Alejandra Quintana

‘‘How mad must one be to mistake a windmill for a monstrous giant?’’ an audience member unfamiliar with Miguel de Cervantes’ literary masterpiece must have been wondering when Don Quixote lashes out at the harmless inanimate object, eventually passing out from exhaustion.

On Nov. 28, 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron called for the “temporary or permanent restitution” of objects of African cultural heritage that reside in French museums during a speech at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.

The Bacchanal Committee revealed that its previous announcement that the upcoming concert still did not have a confirmed headliner due to contract violations was a prank in a Facebook and Instagram livestream Q&A on Friday night.

When one thinks about film noir, classics like “Double Indemnity” (1944) or “The Big Sleep” (1946) usually come to mind, but the literary sources of inspiration for these movies often do not. And while film scholars have deemed valuable the work of crime fiction writers like Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, the work of short story writer and novelist Cornell Woolrich has not received the same praise.

“Courage, wit, persistence, and an indomitable spirit” were the words used by Athena Film Festival co-founder Kathryn Kolbert at Miller Theatre on Thursday night to describe the many female protagonists of this year’s feature films.

Kathryn Kolbert argued the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the Supreme Court as a public interest attorney specializing in women’s reproductive rights. Melissa Silverstein founded Women and Hollywood, an initiative that “educates, advocates, and agitates for gender diversity and inclusion in Hollywood and the global film industry,” according to its website. At Barnard, they worked together to create an innovative event that promotes a new kind of leadership, uniting politics and film.

Through words of encouragement from the audience, students from many different backgrounds shared short stories and poems about identity, culture, family, love, race, and language at the “Expresión” open mic this past Friday, Feb. 1 in Dodge 501.

When one has a horrible day or goes through a breakup, where does one go to cry unrelentingly? Most likely to the bathroom, just as the titular character in Miriam Grill’s thesis production of “Medea” did.

A typical day spent studying in Butler was just one of the scenes that the members of Sabor, Columbia’s first Latinx dance troupe, unexpectedly enlivened with their dazzling, innovative routines.

France does not legally recognize any sort of racial or ethnic classification—in fact, the term “race” was recently erased from the French constitution. Although there exists no legal terminology in the nation to address issues regarding race, a new film series presented by the Columbia Maison Française features a variety of contemporary black female voices that attempt to articulate these issues through the powerful medium of cinema.