Crisostomo, a senior at Lincoln High School in 1968, was part of a small group of students and faculty who led 15,000 Chicano students to walk out of their L.A. Unified schools in a historic protest against longstanding inequities in the district. Refreshments will be served! Presented by Upward Bound and the First Generation Club.
Former Israeli soldier Ari Folman's animated, quasi-documentary Waltz With Bashir follows the filmmaker's emotional attempt to decipher the horrors that unfolded one night in September of 1982 when more than 3,000 Palestinian refugees were massacred in the heart of Beirut as Israeli soldiers surrounded the area. Folman was one of those soldiers, but nearly 20 years after the fact, his memories of that night remained particularly hazy. This is the unsettling story of his quest to unearth those memories.
This talk will combine imagery and video clips of methods of book production in Tibet to introduce the viewer to the materials used and artisans involved in creating these spiritual treasures.
Roman Catholic nun-scribes copied out and decorated thousands of manuscripts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. Moreton has documented 250 manuscripts produced by over 70 nun-scribes and decorators from more than 40 different convents in Renaissance and early modern Italy. Dr.
Learn how to effectively write your accomplishments reflecting past work experiences and leadership roles. Get your resume ready for prime time!
Learn about the types of interviews and how to effectively analyze a job description to tell your story.
A World Not Ours is an account of one family's multi-generational experience living as permanent refugees. Director Mahdi Fleifel grew up in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, established in 1948 as a temporary refuge for exiled Palestinians. Today, the camp houses 70,000 people and is the hometown of generations of Palestinians. In Xenos the filmmaker follows the story of Abu Eyad, who journeys from the camp to Europe joining the millions of migrants struggling to get by.
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Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, most notably, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.