Boston Palestine Film Festival
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Wednesday October 21th 8:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Langdell North,1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
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Screening : "Degrees of Incarceration"-
Boston Palestine Film Festival
Since 1967, in the occupied territories alone, Israel has detained or imprisoned over 700,000 Palestinians-approximately 20% of the total Palestinian population in these areas. The majority of those detained are male, meaning that the number constitutes
approximately 40% of the total male Palestinian population in the territories. Today, between 8,000 and 10,000 Palestinians are serving sentences for political charges. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have served more than 15 years in prison and dozens have
served more than 20 years.
This documentary explores the toll that the high rate of imprisonment takes on a West Bank Palestinian refugee camp, a family, and individual lives. It also covers some of the innovative methods Palestinians have used to help youth prepare and cope with this
universal aspect of coming of age under military occupation. As such, the film sheds light on an issue of enormous importance to Palestinian society that is little known or understood.
Amahl Bishara is a professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. She lived in the West Bank from 2003-2005 and volunteered with the Lajee Youth Center.
Nidal Al-Azraq is a refugee born and raised in Aida Refugee Camp. He is a volunteer and former Program Director for Lajee Youth Center, and he is currently a student in the Boston Area.
More information: http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org |
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Media Literacy, Teaching and Learning and 21st Century Skill |
Saturday October 24th, 8:00am - 4:30pm
The Tang Center, MIT, Cambridge MA
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Media Literacy, Teaching and Learning
and 21st Century Skills
HOME, Inc., TechFoundation and MIT's Comparative Media Studies program partner on their biennial one-day conference on Media Literacy. Prominent educators, filmmakers, public health workers and representatives from dedicated organizations
will highlight programs that promote and teach 21st Century skills and new media literacies.
Keynote Presenter: Alan November, author, leader and innovator in the field.
Keynote title: Digital Nation- Education in Transition to 21st Century Learning
This Keynote presentation includes an analysis of trends in learning... independent and hands on learning that tracks projects that explore how the web and digital media is changing the way we think, work, learn and interact.
More Info: http://ezregister.com/events/536/
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Reuben A. Buford May |
Wednesday, October 21th 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Presents:
"Race, Class, Culture and Integrated-Segregation in Urban Public Space: The Case of Nightlife in Downtown Athens, Georgia"
Fall Colloquium Series
Reuben A. Buford May
Professor of Sociology, Texas A & M University
For more information please visit: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/events/reuben-buford-may
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Forum Facilitator/Joker needed
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Joker/facilitator needed to create skits and forum it with HIV positive youth at the
annual Connecting For Change Youth Empowerment Conference on October 24th in Marlborough, MA. The youth who are HIV positive at the Children's Hospital Adolescent HIV Program have been exploring expressive arts as a way to talk about the issues of stigma
and relationships and HIV.
The commitment includes at least a 4-5 hour-long workshop with the youth to prepare a skit (you decide the best time/date) and then the day of the conference: October 24th. There is currently no pay secured, but there will be some stipend monies for the Facilitator.
(something like $75-100 bucks).
Please contact Chloe Green if interested: chloev.green@gmail.com
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Orhan Pamuk Public Lecture:
"Pictures and Things"
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Tuesday, October 20th 4:00 pm
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
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Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature
"The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist"
Tuesday, October 20
"Pictures and Things"
Monday, October 26
"Museums and Novels"
Tuesday, November 3
"The Center"
Open to the public
No tickets required
Seating is limited
Please direct inquiries to
humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
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The Cultural Agents Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative present:
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Creative
empowerment of marginalized youth in refugee camps: Lessons from the West Bank
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A presentation and discussion with:
Nidal Al Azraq, Co-author of The Boy and the Wall (2005)
&
Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D., Research Affiliate, MIT Visual Arts Program and Co-founder, Voices Beyond Walls
Monday, October 26th, 2009
5pm - 7pm
Barker Center, room 133
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Co-Chairs:
Jennifer Leaning, Co-Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Doris Sommer, Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative
For more information please contact
Marcela Mahecha mahecha@fas.harvard.edu
or
Margeaux Fischer
fischer@hsph.harvard.edu
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