Religion & Film: Babette's Feast

Event time: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 3:00pm
Event description: 

Babette’s Feast

(Denmark, 1987, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 35mm)

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 | 7 PM
WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER AUDITORIUM (53 WALL ST.)

cosponsored by Films at the Whitney, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, American Studies, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion.


Professors Kathryn Lofton (American Studies and Religious Studies) and Sally Promey (American Studies and ISM) will lead the audience in a post-screening discussion about the relationship between fortune and orthodoxy, snesation and piety, food and faith.