Interrupted Dialogues: To Catch a Thief with Michael McCann

Join us for a special outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1955 film, To Catch a Thief, starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Featuring Robert Burks's Oscar winning cinematography, To Catch a Thief is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most visually lush films. Michael McCann, Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, will contrast historic and contemporary images of criminality.

Michael McCann is the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship at the University of Washington. McCann's research focuses on the politics of rights and rights-based struggles for social justice, with an emphasis on challenges to race, gender, and class hierarchies, and he has written over sixty article-length publications and is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of eight books.

McCann has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), a Law and Public Affairs Program Fellowship at Princeton (2011-12), and numerous NSF and other research grants; he was elected as president of the U.S based international Law and Society Association for 2011-13. He won a UW Distinguished Teaching Award (1989) and has recently was recognized as an outstanding graduate mentor by the UW Graduate School. In 2014, he assumed a new leadership role as Director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at UW, a center of publicly engaged intellectuals addressing issues of working people around the world.

Presented in conjunction with Michelle Handelman's Irma Vep, The Last Breath, "Interrupted Dialogues" presents four talks paired with four screenings. Rather than serving as introductions to the films, the talks present topics that dialogue with the screenings in unpredictable ways.