[mob4glob] TODAY - Video Perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict - 4pm

[Announcements List for U of S Mobilization For Global Justice Club]

University of Saskatchewan

Humanities Research Unit

Presents  A Public Screening and Discussion  

Professor Dorit Naaman   (Queen's University)

 

Between Diary and Documentary: Video Perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli
Conflict

 

4pm to 6pm, Tuesday February 23, 2010, in Room 146 Arts.

 

Dorit Naaman is a film theorist and documentary film maker from Jerusalem
who is now Alliance Atlantis Professor in the Department of Film and Media
at Queen's.  Her research focuses on Israeli and Palestinian cinemas,
primarily from post-colonialist and feminist perspectives, and she is
currently working on a book on the visual representation of Palestinian and
Israeli women fighters in Israeli visual media. She will show then lead
discussion of examples from her DiaDocuMEntary video series, which uses
intimate forms and 'looks' to offer alternative views of human and political
situations too often reduced to inevitable episodes in a "centuries old
un-resolvable conflict."  

 

Admission Free.

Everyone  welcome         

 

For further information contact Len Findlay at 966-2573; or
len.findlay at usask.ca