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Ilens film: House of Spirits

Presented by: Center for Latin American Studies Portugal, Germany, Denmark, USA (1993) Dir: Bille August. Based on Isabel Allende’s novel, this tale begins in South America in 1926 and details the life of four generations. The film traces the post-colonial social and political upheavals of Chile through the genre of magical realism. At its core…

Posted by on November 6, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: West

Presented by: Peggy Setje-Eilers, Assistant Professor of German Germany (2013) Dir: Christian Schwochow. East Germany. Summer, late 70’s. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij’s apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin Wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses…

Posted by on November 5, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: The Barber of Birmingham

Presented by: Frank Dobson, Director of the Black Cultural Center USA (2011) Dirs: Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin. Eighty five-year-old Mr. Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, experiences the manifestation of an unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president. This colorful and courageous activist of the Civil Rights era casts…

Posted by on November 3, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday: Improving Education in Qing Hai, China Details

Location: Student Life Center Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 In the Qing Hai province of China, there are a number of issues that complicate efforts to improve the quality of education, especially for nomadic peoples. One challenge, for example, is how to offer bilingual education to all students; minority languages are legally granted…

Posted by on October 29, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday: Reducing HIV Risk for Men Who Have Sex with Men in China

Location: Student Life Center Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health has three NIH grants to work with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and the local CDC offices in Beijing and Chaoyang (eastern side of the city) to increase HIV testing, linkage to care,…

Posted by on October 29, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Two Lives

Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts Germany, Norway (2012) Dirs: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann. As the Berlin Wall crumbles, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify at a trial against the Norwegian…

Posted by on October 23, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: Seeking Asian Female

Presented by: Rory Dicker, Associate Director, Women and Gender Studies USA (2012) Dir: Debbie Lum. An eccentric modern love story about an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Lum, a Chinese-American filmmaker, documents and narrates from the early stages…

Posted by on October 23, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Access to the Danger Zone

Presented by: VU Institute for Global Health Belgium, Somalia, Kenya, Congo, Afghanistan (2012) Dir: Peter Casaer. Narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts. Access to the Danger Zone explores the strategies that Doctors Without Borders has used to save lives in the…

Posted by on October 23, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: The Anonymous People

Presented by: Katherine Drotos Cuthbert, Office of Wellness Programs & Alcohol Education and Vanderbilt Recovery Support USA (2013) Dir: Greg D. Williams. A documentary which gives an overview of the American recovery movement including a discussion of Alcoholics Anonymous and its tradition of anonymity. This moving story is told through the faces and voices of…

Posted by on October 21, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday: How to Win the 2015 Global Health Case Competition

Location: Student Life Center Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1&2 This spring, multidisciplinary teams composed of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from across the university will compete in the fifith annual Global Health Case Competition and take on a complex, real-world global issue surrounding health.  At this World on Wednesday, competition organizers will explain what the…

Posted by on October 16, 2014 in Activities Everyone

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