Spring 2009 Events

Co-sponsored with the Honors Program

Marla Mossman

Marla Mossman’s organization on behalf of tolerance and understanding is called Peace caravan. A photographer and social justice advocate, she will present some of the issues that face women in various ethnic communities. Ms. Mossman will be having a one-woman photography exhibition in Manhattan this spring, and her talk at Post will be a prelude to the show.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Hillwood Commons Cinema

Chad Shagren

Chad Shagren is an alumnus of the honors program. His thesis in film took him to a children’s orphanage in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, where he made a feature length documentary on the children and their caretakers. After a screening of his film, “Flying Kites,” Chad will talk about his work and his future project in India. How film can be used to sensitize the public to economic and social conditions will be the subject of the discussion.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Hillwood Commons Cinema

Institute of Education for Social Justice Film Series

The Institute of Education for Social Justice Film series is designed to encourage participants to address problems of inequality and social justice affecting the human community depicted both in popular and alternative cinema. Using film as a medium for the exploration of human problems impacting social justice in society and across the disciplines and as a means to provoke dialogue and debate over issues ranging from social justice policy issues to individual moral decision-making, the series aims to advance the theoretical understanding and practical application of social justice in common, everyday situations. Following the screening of each film, participants are invited to take part in an open discussion of the social problems and/or controversial issues it raises.

Mardi Gras: Made in China
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hillwood Commons Cinema

Doug Going, close friend and editing consultant of filmmaker David Redmon, will screen Redmon’s film, Mardi Gras: Made in China, a powerful documentary that explores the unlikely connection between Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the factory workers in China who manufacture the plastic beads forming one of the main symbols of the festival in New Orleans. In the documentary, Redmon follows the “bead trail” to the Tai Kuen factory in the Fuzhou province of China where young teenagers work long hours for minimal pay in prison-like compounds far from their homes. The footage taken in China, along with images of the carnival in New Orleans, forms a startling contrast between the young party-goers at Mardi Gras and the even younger factory workers in Tai Kuen that comments upon the realities of the global marketplace. Mr. Going will conduct an insightful post-screening Q&A discussion exploring the issues raised in the film.

Sicko
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hillwood Commons Cinema

The Nasty Girl
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hillwood Commons Cinema

Milagro Beanfield War
Monday, March 30th, 2009
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hillwood Commons Cinema

Global Village or Global Pillage?
Monday, April 20th, 2009
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hillwood Commons Cinema