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"Fighting Tyranny": A May Day Talk with Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is a leading American Historian and Public Intellectual in areas regarding European history, politics, and war. He is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He speaks five and reads ten European languages.

Muxeres en Movimiento/ Womxn in Movement

Through Walls: A Heritage Dialogue

Six female muralists share their vision and experiences participating in a cultural exchange in Cairo, Egypt and Los Angeles, USA., in collaboration with Avenue 50 Studio and Athar Lina Initiative.
 
Themes: Cultural heritage, female representation in the arts, gentrification, and how community is defined through creative practices in an increasingly digital age.

This event is free and open to the public.

Israel Palestine Film Series

Arna Mer, born to Jewish parents in Palestine during the British Mandate, came to the Jenin Palestinain Refugee Camp in the West Bank in 1989, taught arts, including painting, acting and theater. She built a theater and formed a theater troupe of the camp's children. This film follows 15 years of her life and work.

Screening of "The End/Beginning: Cambodia"

Based on a 2009 TED Talk, but made after his mother passed away, the film uses audio recordings from interviews he conducted with her for a LIVES piece in the New York Times published in 2005, the 30th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh. The script for the documentary follows the eulogy he delivered at her funeral - a letter to her grandchildren about what she did to make their lives possible.