"Environmental Struggles": A Film Series
Christine Walley, Jean Jackson
Tue Jan 20, Wed Jan 21, Thu Jan 22, 05-07:00pm, 16-220
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
In this activity, we'll view three films ("Containment: Life after Three Mile Island." "Blue Vinyl" and "Trinkets and Beads") that explore community conflict over the environment in relation to the nuclear power industry, environmental toxins, and oil pollution. Two of the films take place in the US and one in Latin America.
Contact: Christine Walley, 16-231, x8-7908, cwalley@mit.edu
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Rituals of Defense: Mobilizing the Kharabagh Movement (Armenia, 1988-1990)
Harutyun Marutyan
Thu Jan 22, 03-04:00pm, 16-220
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prof. Marutyun is an anthropologist and archivist of visual materials collected both during the democracy movement and the following struggle to free Kharabagh from Azarbaijan and integrate it with Armenia. He will illustrate and discuss the symbols and rhetoric that composed these national movements.
Contact: Harutyun Marutyan, hmarut@mit.edu
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