2002 Fall War and Peace
“Camp de Thiaroye”
Based on real events, this feature film deals with the fate of African soldiers repatriated to Dakar in 1944 after long years of military service in Europe. Instead of returning […]
Read More“The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On”
One of Japan’s great films, this impassioned cinema-verite documentary is an account of the one-man wrecking crew/dissident, Okuzaki Kenzo. Okuzaki was an ex-Private of the 36th Engineering Corps who fought […]
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This groundbreaking, award-winning documentary explores the moment when India and Pakistan ushered in the new age of the nuclear bomb–and a new peace movement. Anand Patwardhan delves into this post-colonial […]
Read More“Testament”
The film is about a suburban American family, and what happens to that family after a nuclear war. It is not a science-fiction movie, and it doesn’t have any special […]
Read More“Level Five”
Mixing fiction and documentary, Chris Marker’s film is an elegiac essay on war and memory, technology and loss, peace and history. Laura (the charismatic Catherine Belkhodja) uses a computer to […]
Read More“Roadblocks”
As of June 2002, there were 274 Israeli roadblocks in the autonomous Palestinian Territories. Passing through these roadblocks is a true test for the thousands of Palestinians, who move from […]
Read More“The Sound of My Violin in My Lai”
This is the story of the dedication of the My Lai Peace Park, which recalls the massacre, the rescue of some Vietnamese by American helicopter pilots, and the reunion of […]
Read More“The Liberal War”
One of the great films about the American war in Vietnam, Macdonald’s handmade production sheds light on American policy and governmental arrogance long before McNamara’s various mia culpas. The film […]
Read MoreTerror, Realism and the Tenacious Stereotype
Participants Mark Juergensmeyer Director, Global and International Studies Program; Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara “Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence” Allen […]
Read MoreTerrorism or Liberation?
Conference Participants: Robert O’Neill Student, University of California, Berkeley Friday, November 15, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Heather Zwicker Department of English University of Alberta
Read MoreWomen, Gender, and War
Symposium Participants Miriam Cooke Department of African & Asian Languages and Literature, Duke University “Women’s Jihad Before and After September 11” Susan Jeffords Department of English University of Washington “Who […]
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