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Penn Humanities Forum is running a major program the week of March 20.
We have the full program on our web-site <http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu>,
with a registration form soon to be added (this weekend) to enable online
registrations.
The full original email announcement follows below, with a file copy of the
Schedule of Events attached in Word 6.0.
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Jennifer Conway
Associate Director
Penn Humanities Forum
116 Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273
215.898.8220 ph
215.573.2063 fax
[log in to unmask]
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu
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Penn Humanities Forum * University of Pennsylvania
Monday, March 20 Saturday, March 25, 2000
HUMAN NATURE HUMAN RIGHTS:
A Civic Dialogue on Unfinished Revolutions
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The Penn Humanities Forum invites you to explore the great struggles for
human rights and the ideas of humanity that animate them in a week-long
program of films, distinguished speakers, public discussions, performances,
walking tours, and documentaries televised in association with WHYY TV.
Each day will focus on a different human rights topic:
Mon., March 20 U.S. Civil Rights
Tues., March 21 Womenıs Rights
Wed., March 22 The Holocaust
Thur., March 23 The Balkans and Islam
Fri., March 24 Africa
Sat., March 25 Philadelphia
Distinguished speakers during the week will include NATALIE ANGIER
of the _New York Times_; JUAN WILLIAMS, host of NPRıs Talk of the
Nation and author of _Eyes on the Prize_; NGUGI WA THIONG'O,
acclaimed African writer and 1977 Amnesty International Prisoner of
Conscience; and experts from a variety of disciplines at Penn.
The Program will conclude on SATURDAY, March 25, with a
+ BREAKFAST & TALK at the White Dog Cafe with prize-winning
author PAUL HENDRICKSON.
+ WALKING TOURS OF PHILADELPHIA LANDMARKS legendary for
their achievements in human rights.
+ PRODUCTION by the BLACK BOTTOM PERFORMANCE PROJECT,
a group who will try to recreate West Philadelphiaıs dispossessed
Black Bottom community.
+ PRESENTATIONS by the LEADERS OF THREE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS:
* NADINE STROSSEN of the American Civil Liberties Union
* WILLIAM SCHULZ of Amnesty International-USA
* CHARLES KERNAGHAN of the National Labor Committee
FOR FULL PROGRAM DETAILS, REGISTRATION, AND TICKET
INFORMATION, please call 215/573-8280 or 215/898-8220; or visit the
Penn Humanities Forum website at http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu
All events are open to the public; admission is free unless otherwise noted.
Program highlights follow below.
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P r o g r a m H i g h l i g h t s
MONDAY, MARCH 20 U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS
Welcome and Opening Remarks
6:00 pm
Logan Hall, Room 17, 36th Street btw. Locust and Spruce Street
FILM FESTIVAL AND COMMENTARY
6:15 10:00 pm, Monday, March 20, Logan Hall, Room 17
==SPEAKERS==
THOMAS J. SUGRUE, Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and
Sociology at Penn, noted authority on civil rights politics and race, and
author of the award-winning book The Origins of the Urban Crisis, a study
of race and inequality in postwar Detroit.
JUAN WILLIAMS, host of NPRıs Talk of the Nation, regular panelist on Fox
News Sunday, and author of Eyes on the Prize, the companion volume to the
PBS documentary series
==FILMS==
Three films from the acclaimed 14-hour documentary Eyes on the Prize:
AINıT SCARED OF YOUR JAILS 1960-1961, SERIES I:3
College students began to take an important role in the civil rights
movement in the early 1960s.In what became known as the Freedom Rides,
many students found themselves facing death to break down segregation in
interstate bus travel below the Mason-Dixon line.
BRIDGE TO FREEDOM, SERIES I:6
Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on
a bus, and nearly 11 years after the "separate but equal" decree was
declared unconstitutional, black Americans were still fighting for equality.
The lessons of that decade are brought to bear in the climactic march from
Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
BACK TO THE MOVEMENT, SERIES II:8
Miami and Chicago were the scene of riots and destruction. brought on by
neighborhoods devastated by so-called urban renewal, lack of jobs, and
police harassment. This final film in the PBS series ends with a look back
at the people who made the Civil Rights Movement a force for change in
America
WHYY FILM SERIES, WHYY TV, Channel 12
11:00 pm--PEOPLE'S CENTURY #120 "Skin Deep"
WHYY TV begins its week-long film series on Human Rights, developed in
association with the Penn Humanities Forum, with Skin Deep, a profile of
efforts to end segregation in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 21 -- WOMENıS RIGHTS
=* LIEF LECTURE *=
N A T A L I E A N G I E R
Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer for the _New York Times_
and author of _WomanAn Intimate Geography_
3:00 4:30 pm
Dunlop Auditorium
3450 Hamilton Walk
(off 36th Street, 1/2 block south of Spruce)
Biologically, proclaims Natalie Angier in her new book, "women are not the
runners-up; women are the original article!" Ms. Angier examines what it
means to be a woman, exploring the biology of being female both to
celebrate what is right about the female body and to challenge popular
theories about the innate differences between men and women.
PUBLIC DISCUSSION, RECEPTION AND BOOK-SIGNING
5:30 7:00 pm
Friends Center and Meetinghouse
1515 Cherry Street (Transportation will be provided)
**RSVP required** by Friday, March 17; 215.573.8280 or
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Join Natalie Angier in conversation with:
JEANNE MARECEK, Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College and
author of _Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of
Gender_.
WENDY STEINER, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Director,
Penn Humanities Forum, and author of the forthcoming book,
_The Trouble with Beauty_.
INGRID WALDRON, Professor and Donna and Larry Shelley Term Chair
in Womenıs Studies at Penn, and author of _Environment and
Population: Problems and Solutions_.
Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum, the Womenıs Studies Program,
and the Lief Lectureship in English, University of Pennsylvania.
FILM FESTIVAL AND COMMENTARY
7:30-10:00 pm, Tuesday, March 21
Meyerson Hall, B-1, 210 S. 34TH Street
Introduction by VICKI MAHAFFEY, Professor of English, author of _States
of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment_, and authority on
Virginia Woolf.
==FILMS==
A WOMANıS PLACE
Intimate stories of women from three countries who are fighting to balance
the scales of power so that "a man's world" is also a woman's place.
THE WAR WITHIN: A PORTRAIT OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
Interweaves the personal story of Virginia Woolf's life and loves with the
turbulent times in which she lived. Rare documents, never before filmed,
include the document in her handwriting used to establish the League of
Nations, newly discovered letters to her beloved Vita Sackville-West,
and the Gestapo list where she and her husband, Leonard, were marked
for arrest.
WHYY Film Series, WHYY TV, Channel 12
10:00pm: A Womanıs Place
11:00pm: The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 -- THE HOLOCAUST
HOLOCAUST VIDEO TESTIMONY
4:30-5:30 pm
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
Spaces limited. RSVP to [log in to unmask] or call 215 573-WRIT
Al Filreis leads a discussion on video testimony by Holocaust
survivors, illustrated with excerpts from archival tapes.
FILM FESTIVAL AND COMMENTARY
6:30-11:00pm
Meyerson Hall, Room B-1, 210 S. 34th Street
==SPEAKERS==
AL FILREIS, Professor of English, Director, Kelly Writers House,
expert on the literature of the Holocaust, and author of _Modernism
from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, & Literary
Radicalism_.
MILLICENT MARCUS, Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies,
Director, Film Studies Program, authority on the Holocaust in Italian
literature and film, and author of _Filmmaking by the Book: Italian
Cinema and Literary Adaptation.
HARRY REICHER, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Law School, whose course, "Law and the Holocaust," is the first of its
kind to be offered at any law school.
BARBIE ZELIZER, Raymond Williams Term Chair and Associate Professor
of Communication, expert on collective memory and visual representation,
and author of the award-winning book, _Remembering to Forget: Holocaust
Memory Through the Camera's Eye_.
==FILMS==
NIGHT AND FOG (Nuit et Brouillard)
Hailed as one of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi
concentration camps and one of the worldıs greatest documentaries,
_Night and Fog_, filmed in1955 at the postwar site of Auschwitz, combines
color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of
the Holocaust and horror of manıs brutal inhumanity.
THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS (Il Giardino Dei Finzi-Contini)
Italian with English subtitles
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1971, nominated for
Best Screenplay, and received 26 international awards. Beautifully
photographed in dream-like pastels, the film tells the story of a rich,
aristocratic family of Italian Jews who cloistered themselves on their large
estate, ignoring the growing peril of Fascist anti-semitism.
WHYY FILM SERIES, WHYY TV, Channel 12
11:30 pm (also 3:00 pm, Sunday, March 26)
BURNING QUESTIONS
Three million Catholic Poles perished in WWII alongside three million Jewish
Poles. The story of Polish Catholic suffering during the Holocaust has been
largely overlooked in the United States. While never diminishing the Jewish
experience, "Burning Questions" includes the often forgotten three million
"others."
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THURSDAY, MARCH 23 -- THE BALKANS AND ISLAM
POLITICAL SCIENCE LECTURE
4:30-5:30 pm
Room 111, Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street
S. NOMANUL HAQ, professor of religion, Rutgers University, visiting scholar
in political science, University of Pennsylvania, and authority on theology,
philosophy, and science in Islamic intellectual history, will speak on
MAKING A PACT WITH GOD: THE ISLAMIC DOCTRINE OF THE
FORMATION OF HUMAN NATURE AND ITS BURDENS
Cosponsored with the Department of Political Science.
FILM FESTIVAL AND COMMENTARY
6:30-10:30pm
Logan Hall, Room 17
249 S. 36th Street
==SPEAKERS==
ROBERT VITALIS, Professor of Political Science, Director of Pennıs
Middle East Center, and author of _When Capitalists Collide: Business
Conflict and the End of Empire in Egypt_.
MILLICENT MARCUS, Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies,
Director, Film Studies Program, authority on the Holocaust in Italian
literature and film, and author of _Filmmaking by the Book: Italian
Cinema and Literary Adaptation.
==FILMS==
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In this two-hour thriller, which won an Oscar for best foreign language film
in 1969 and launched the human rights film genre, Costa-Gravas chronicles
the overthrow of the democratic government in Greece.
BATTLE OF ALGIERS
Academy Award nominee for best foreign film in 1966, film was initially
banned by the French government. It is a landmark of film history as the
first film to depict Algeriaıs revolt against French Colonialism in their
struggle to gain independence.
WHYY FILM SERIES, WHYY TV, Channel 12
10:30 pm: SREBRENICA: A CRY FROM THE GRAVE
Events surrounding Europeıs most horrifying war crimes since World War II
are brought to light in this gripping documentary. Narrated by Bill Moyers,
the program includes previously unreleased footage and first-person accounts
of the 1995 massacre in Bosnia.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 24 -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA
AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER, HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
Logan Hall, Terrace Room, 249 S. 36th Street
9:00am 6:15pm
For conference information, please call 215-898-6971
Call for papers:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/africa/7afstd400.html
Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum.
FILM FESTIVAL AND COMMENTARY
6:30-9:00 pm
Meyerson Hall, Room B-1, 210 S. 34th Street
==SPEAKERS==
NGUGI WA THIONGıO, acclaimed African writer and Amnesty International
Prisoner of Conscience (Kenya 1977), and author of several books,
including _Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom_
and _Writers in Politics_. His award-winning works promoting the role
of indigenous languages in decolonization have been translated into
more than 30 languages.
FARAH GRIFFIN, Associate Professor of English, and author of _Who Set
You Flowinı?: The African-American Migration Narrative_.
TUKUFU ZUBERI, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director, African
Studies Center, and authority on race and demographics in Africa.
==FILM==
FACING THE TRUTH WITH BILL MOYERS
Bill Moyers travels into the heart of South Africa, a land seeking to heal
the wounds left by an amoral system of apartheid, and meets with the faces
it has left behind. The program covers the amnesty and the Truth and
Reconciliation hearings where victims at last confront their torturers,
their rapists, and the murderers of their loved ones.
WHYY Film Series, WHYY TV, Channel 12
10:00 pm: FACING THE TRUTH WITH BILL MOYERS
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SATURDAY, MARCH 25 -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN PHILADELPHIA
**BREAKFAST & TALK: "Mississippi Murder: A Fifty Year Haunting"**
9:30-11:00am, White Dog Café
3420 Sansom Street
$15 per person. Reservations and prepayment required; seating limited.
Call the Penn Humanities Forum,
215/898-8220 or [log in to unmask]
PAUL HENDRICKSON, award-winning feature writer for the
_Washington Post_ who also teaches in Pennıs English Department,
will discuss the legend of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago
who was visiting country relatives in Mississippi when he was murdered
in 1955. His murder helped ignite what would soon, in the next decade,
be called The Civil Rights Movement.
**POOR RICHARDıS WALKING TOURS**
"Life & Liberty: Struggles for Human Rights in Philadelphia"
Tour times: 9:30 am 12:00 noon
12:00 noon 2:30 pm
Tickets, $10, students $5
For tickets and reservations, call 215-573-8280, or email
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The streets of Philadelphia are filled with the ghosts and remains
of historic struggles for human rights. Come explore the storied streets
of our city in this tour created especially for the Penn Humanities Forum,
as we discuss these remarkable legends and achievements in a walk
written and produced by the Penn historians of Poor Richard's Walking Tours.
**BLACK BOTTOM PERFORMANCE PROJECT**
12:00 2:00 pm, WHYY Studios, Independence Mall at Sixth and Race
"EMINENT DOMAIN"NARRATIVES OF DISPOSSESSION, EXILE, AND RETURN
Black Bottom was a vital African-American neighborhood in West
Philadelphia destroyed in the 1950s and early 60s by the so-called
Urban Renewal programs of that era. Through stories, monologues,
music, poetry, and academic presentations, a panel of Philadelphia
artists, Penn faculty, and former residents of Black Bottom will
examine historical, folkloric, mythological, and sociological stories
of dispossession, exile, and return.
Sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum, the Center for Community
Partnerships, the Community Arts Partnership, and the Black Bottom
Performance Project. Curated by Dr. William Yalowitz.)
**RECEPTION**
2:00 3:00 pm, WHYY Studios, Independence Mall at Sixth and Race
****CIVIC FORUM: HUMAN NATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS****
3:00 5:00 pm
WHYY Studios, Independence Mall at Sixth and Race Streets
Tickets: $5; students $2.50
For tickets and reservations, call 215-573-8280, or
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Introductions by:
Wendy Steiner, Director, Penn Humanities Forum
Samuel Freeman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
SPEAKERS
NADINE STROSSEN
President, American Civil Liberties Union
"Current Challenges to Civil Liberties"
CHARLES KERNAGHAN
Executive Director, National Labor Committee
"The Fight to End Child Labor and Sweatshops"
WILLIAM SCHULZ
Executive Director, Amnesty International--USA
"Torture, Torment, and Tyranny: The Status of Human Rights Today"
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