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SUMMARY:Iraq Front & Center: Fifteen Years On
DESCRIPTION:This symposium examines the stakes for Iraqis fifteen years since the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. It foregrounds Iraqi perspectives at a critical moment by bringing together humanities-based scholars and practitioners in history\, fiction\, medicine\, film and journalism with rich expertise in Iraq\, its diaspora and its archives. This symposium is made possible through the support of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Santa Barbara. \nThursday May 10 \nPANEL 1\n1:30 – 4:00pm\nMcCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) \nOpening Remarks by Mona Damluji (Film & Media Studies)\n“The Times of Revolution in Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom”\nSara Pursley\, New York University\n“Pre-occupation\, Epistemic Violence & Collateral Damage in Iraq”\nSinan Antoon\, New York University\nModerated by Sherene Seikaly (History)\nSponsored by IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries Series \nRECEPTION\n4:00 – 5:00pm\nCrowell Room (HSSB 6028)\nPerformance by UCSB Middle East Music Ensemble\nSponsored by IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries Series \nFILM EVENT\n7:00 – 9:00pm\nPollock Theater\, UC Santa Barbara \nScreening: Life After the Fall. 2008. Directed by Kasim Abid\nPost-screening panel: “Storytelling from Iraq” with Sinan Antoon & Leila Fadel\nModerated by Mona Damluji (Film & Media Studies)\nSponsored by CWC & Arab Film & Media Institute \nFriday May 11 \nPANEL 2\n10:30am – 12:30pm\nMcCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) \n“Reporting from Iraq: The Importance of the Human Story to Informing Policy”\nLeila Fadel\, NPR Correspondent\n“Iraqibacter: Ecologies of War and an Anthropology of Wounding”\nOmar Dewachi\, American University of Beirut\nModerated by Paul Amar (Global Studies)\nSponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies
URL:https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/event/iraq-front-center/
LOCATION:Lingnan University\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
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