Unique events this semester from the Embrey Human Rights Program

September 22, 2011
Women, War, and Peace
7:00 p.m.
Hughes-Trigg Theater
Abigail Disney will deliver a public lecture and screen parts of her new documentary series Women, War, and Peace which will be shown on PBS beginning October 11 for 5 consecutive Tuesdays.  The series reveals how women have become primary targets in a new kind of war – a war fought by gangs and warlords using unconventional weapons.  It also shows how women are becoming necessary partners in brokering lasting peace and leaders in forging new international laws governing conflict. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/women-war-peace/introduction/4093/

September 29 – Walls of Hope & Murals as Voice: Building Community Through Art
7:00 p.m.
306 Dallas Hall – McCord Auditorium
Mural artist and community activist, Claudia Bernardi, and documentary filmmaker, Gayle Embrey will present their work with human rights murals and muralists.  Through her organization, Walls of Hope, Bernardi uses collaborative and community based art-making, education, diplomacy and community development to support survivors of state terror.  Embrey’s Murals as Voice Project, showcases the collective voices of people from around the world who use murals as their vehicle of communication.  Her documentary explores histories, life experiences, and the hopes and dreams communicated through murals on the walls of neighborhood communities. www.wallsofhope.org and http://powersurgeproductions.net

October 6 – Escape to Dallas: Stories of Flight & Survival
Produced by REFUGEE WRITERS with Lauren and Justin Banta
7:00 p.m.
306 Dallas Hall/McCord Auditorium
The evening will feature readings of original stories and writings by international refugees, asylum seekers, and other forced migrants currently living in Dallas. Presenters offer their experiences of flight from conflict, political and economic threats and their resettlement in the Dallas area.  www.unsettledtext.blogspot.com

October 17 /24 /31 – RASC/a Film Series: “Race Movies” from the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection (See time and location below)
“Race movies,” a film genre that existed in the United States between about 1915 and 1950, are films produced for an all-black audience and feature black casts. Of the approximately five hundred race films produced, fewer than one hundred remain. Their history parallels the history of segregation in the United States. In 1983, 15 of these rare films produced between 1935 and 1956 were recovered from a Tyler, Texas warehouse. They were brought to SMU where they were preserved and digitized. The SMU Department of Art History will screen three of these works in October followed by panel discussions with specialists from the Departments of Art History, Film and Media Studies, History, and the Embrey Human Rights Program.

October 17 – The Blood of Jesus (1941)
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Hughes-Trigg Theater

October 24 – Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1936)
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Hughes-Trigg Theater

October 31 – Juke Joint (1947)
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Hughes-Trigg Theater

October 27 – 2006: A Chance Meeting in Rwanda.  2011: A Center for Perceptual Change.  Next ten years: The Global Arts Corps
7:00 p.m.
306 Dallas Hall/McCord Auditorium
An evening with Michael Lessac, (artistic director and producer) and Jackie Lessac (executive producer) of the award-winning Truth in Translation, a theatrical piece that tells the story of South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission through the eyes of its young interpreters.  They will screen video clips of their work and discuss the creative process of the Global Arts Corps – a human rights/arts organization that brings together world-class artists from opposite sides of civil, religious, and racial conflict who, together, create theatrical productions that tour the world’s conflict zones to advance the cause of reconciliation.
http://www.globalartscorps.org/history.html

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