November Events!

The Center for Social Media is proud to be presenting three exciting November events. On November 10 join us for Camera As Catalyst, an evening with visiting Magnum photographer Peter van Agtamael. In honor of Veterans Day, November 11, CSM is hosting a screening of The Way We Get By, a moving documentary about troop greeters featuring Q&A with the filmmakers. Join us November 12 for a special multi-faceted event on Women In Conflict: Iraq & Afghanistan, which includes discussions with writers and  a screening of short films on Women's Voices From the Muslim World. All three events will take place in the School of Communication's Wechsler Theater. And finally, CSM is teaming up with a number of campus organizations to host a screening of Two Spirits on November 18, a film about the two spirit identity in indigenous cultures of north america and the murder of two spirit fred martinez.

November 10:

Camera As Catalyst

Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 17:30

Location: Wechsler Theater, 3rd Floor Mary Graydon, American University

Join the Center for an evening with visiting Magnum photographer Peter van Agtamael, 5:30 pm November 10 at American University's School of Communication, in Wechsler Theater. When not in Iraq and Afghanistan, van Agtmael photographed the war at home, following the recovery of wounded soldiers and the families of the fallen.Peter has documented the Three Gorges Dam in China, the Asian Tsunami, the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

November 11:

The Way We Get By

Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 17:30

Location: Wechsler Theater, 3rd Floor Mary Graydon Center, American University

 The SXSW Special Jury Award winning "The Way We Get By [2]" is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Join us for a screening of the film on November 11, 2010 at 5:30pm  at American University's School of Communication, Wechsler Theater.
  

Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters - a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality.

November 12:

Women In Conflict: Iraq & Afghanistan

Date: Friday, November 12, 2010 - 18:00

Location: Wechsler Theater, 3rd Floor Mary Graydon, American University

The Center is cosponsoring an event on Women In Conflict with American University's Middle East Studies program and the School of Communication. Join us on campus Friday, November 12 at 6:00pm in Wechsler Theater for a screening from Women's Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival. The screening will also be accompanied by a panel discussion with authors Christina Asquith, Sisters in War, and Manal Omar, Barefoot in Baghdad.

November 18

TWO SPIRITS [3]

Thursday, November 18

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Wechsler Theater

: a film about:

: two spirit identity in indigenous cultures of north america and the murder of two spirit fred martinez

: followed with a discussion by Marlon Fixico from the Two Spirit Society of Washington, DC