Past Events
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Kyle Gibson is an award-winning journalist, writer, producer, and Emmy award winner. She was also a longtime producer for ABC News, where she covered stories from around the world during the final decade of the Cold War.
Panel Discussion with Nancy Youssef, Professor Zareena Grewal and Dr. Hani Mowafi
Co-sponsored by the MacMillan Center, the Council on Middle East Studies, the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses, and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.
7:45 pm: Panel Discussion including Aaron Woolf, Derek Hallquist and Christine David Hallquist
Denial: Every day our changing climate pushes us closer to an environmental catastrophe, but for most the problem is easy to ignore. David Hallquist, a Vermont utility executive, has made it his mission to take on one of the largest contributors of this global crisis-our electric grid. But, when his son Derek tries to tell his father’s story, the film is soon derailed by a staggering family secret, one that forces Derek and David to turn their attention toward a much more personal struggle, one that can no longer be ignored.
6:30pm: Taxi Tehran (Jafar Panahi, Iran 2015, 82min )
8pm: For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (Gerald Peary, 2007, 80min) Q&A with Gerald Peary to follow
Co-sponsored by Psi Chi