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Conference at UCLA to Study Joan of Arc

“Joan of Arc in History and Film,” a conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Florence Gould Foundation of New York, will be held through Saturday at UCLA’s Melnitz Theater and its faculty center.

The event will include Jacques Rivette’s “Joan the Maid: The Battles” (1994) which screens today at 7 p.m., and its second part, “Joan the Maid: The Prisons,” screens Saturday at 2 p.m., followed by a panel discussion at 5 p.m.

Today two sessions at 9:30 a.m. and 2 5 p.m. will cover papers on medieval and contemporary representations of Joan of Arc, including an illustrated survey of films on the subject.

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Information: (310) 835-5622 or (310) 825-1880.

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