Event Info
- Date: Wednesday, 11/20/2024
- Place: Shannon 308
“The Fast and the Curious” is a ten-part lecture series for the 2024-2025 academic year that will feature the Fast and Furious franchise.
Although Fast and Furious is popular and commercially successful, it has also had a fascinating impact on car culture, automotive design and technology, and features significant representation of Black, Latine, and Asian communities. For each film, an event in the series pairs one engineering scholar and one social science or humanities scholar to discuss different aspects of the movies, building bridges between engineering and social science/humanities disciplines, delving into media literacy and film analysis, and having fun.
This session will feature Nicole Dufalla (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Melissa Frost (Spanish). After the talk, we’ll screen the second film in the franchise, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Snacks provided, but registration required beforehand as seating will be limited.
We’re delighted to co-sponsor this event with Professor MC Forelle and UVA Engineering, the Virginia Motorsports Education club (a student org in the School of Engineering), and UVA Library Science and Engineering Research Librarian Maggie Nunley.
Questions?
Contact Scholars' Lab Assistant Director for Public Services Laura Miller.