April 10 | 7:30 PM
Griffin Hall, Room 3
Nir Rosen: Update from Iraq
Nir Rosen is a journalist who has written extensively on American policy toward Afghanistan and Iraq. He spent more than two years in Iraq reporting on the American occupation, the relationship between Americans and Iraqis, the development of postwar Iraqi religious and political movements, interethnic and sectarian relations, and the Iraqi civil war. His reporting and research also focused on the origins and development of Islamist resistance, insurgency, and terrorist organizations.
Griffin Hall, Room 3
April 11 | 7:30 PM
Paresky Performance Space
Screening: Iraq: The Lost GenerationAward-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels to Syria and Jordan to investigate the plight of Iraqi refugees.
Film will be preceded by a panel on Iraqi refugees and followed by a reception in the Henze Lounge.
April 13 | 7:00 PM
Images Cinema
Screening: Lioness
Introduced by Magnus Bernhardsson, Professor of History
Post-screening discussion with filmmakers Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers
April 14 | 7:00 PM
'62 Center
Panel Discussion: War Stories: Artists, Filmmakers, and Scholars Consider the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
With journalist, novelist and playwright George Packer, Michael Rackowitz, Associate Professor of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University and Lioness filmmaker Meg McLagan and co-director Daria Sommers.
Moderated by Liza Johnson, Associate Professor of Art
Made possible by the W. Ford Schumann '50 Program in Democratic Studies
April 16 | 7:30 PM
Griffin Hall, Room 6
Lecture: Vietnam and IraqMarc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Fredrik Logevall, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Field of History at Cornell University.
Fredrik Logevall joined the Cornell Department of History in 2004. He previously taught at UC Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. A specialist on U.S. foreign relations, Professor Logevall teaches a range of courses covering the history of U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy, as well as the international history of the Cold War and the Vietnam Wars.
April 16 | 10:00 PM
Adams Memorial Theatre
Post-Performance discussion with writer George Packer, director Pippin Parker, and the cast.
April 20 | 7:00 PM
Images Cinema
Screening : The Recruiter
Introduced by Magnus Bernhardsson, Professor of History
Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Edet Belzberg
For more information, please call 413-597-2425.
$3 Students/ $10
In 2007,
George Packer's article in The New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who worked
for American forces on the ground drew attention to a moral scandal: the
interpreters were jeopardizing their lives in an atmosphere of increasing
hostility with no real U.S.
protection. Packer, whose The Assassin's Gate is one of the best books written
on modern Iraq, turned the
article into Betrayed, an extraordinary play about three young Iraqis-- two men
and one woman-- who risk everything for America's promise of freedom. This
complex, heart-wrenching exploration of the relationships between the Iraqis
and their American supervisors is one of the most powerful and incisive works
of art to come out of the war.
Winner of
the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
These
performances are made possible by the W. Ford Schumann ’50 Endowment for the
Arts and the Lipp Family Fund for Performing Artists.
