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Faculty Forum - Declan Fahy: THE NEW CELEBRITY SCIENTIST

Faculty Forum

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Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 10:30am - 11:30am

Location: The Media Innovation Lab, Mckinley Building, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016

In his new book The New Celebrity Scientists: Out of the Lab and into the Limelight, Professor Declan Fahy profiles eight eloquent, controversial, and compelling sellers of science to investigate how they achieved celebrity in the United States and internationally—and explores how their ideas influence our understanding of the world.

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Filmfest DC - MAIDAN

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Date: Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 3:30pm - 6:00pm

Location: Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW, Washington D.C. 20004

Like many overseas conflicts, the recent unrest in Ukraine is an abstract thing to those not directly involved: grainy news footage and complex political references with little or no context. Maidan (shorthand for the city square and the movement it spawned), is a series of physically static camera shots that are anything but, as the thousands of nameless heroes of the protest against pro-Russian Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych that lasted from December 2013 to February 2014 stroll, sing, eat, sleep, and, eventually, fight against strict anti-protest laws and their well-armed enforcers. Thus the masses become the protagonist in a rigorous, vitally important film.

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Filmfest DC - MAIDAN

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Partner Event

Date: Sunday, April 19, 2015 - 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Location: Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW, Washington D.C. 20004

Like many overseas conflicts, the recent unrest in Ukraine is an abstract thing to those not directly involved: grainy news footage and complex political references with little or no context. Maidan (shorthand for the city square and the movement it spawned), is a series of physically static camera shots that are anything but, as the thousands of nameless heroes of the protest against pro-Russian Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych that lasted from December 2013 to February 2014 stroll, sing, eat, sleep, and, eventually, fight against strict anti-protest laws and their well-armed enforcers. Thus the masses become the protagonist in a rigorous, vitally important film.

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Filmfest DC - LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

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Date: Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 9:15pm - 11:20pm

Location: Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW, Washington D.C. 20004

In 1971, Filipino-American Richard Adams and Australian Tony Sullivan met in Los Angeles and fell in love. Four years later, they became the first couple to receive a same-sex marriage license. Shortly afterward, the Immigration and Naturalization Service knocked back their application for Tony's spousal visa, chiding, "You have failed to establish that a bona fide martial relationship can exist between two faggots." Four decades on the forefront of the struggle for marriage equality, they're still battling to be recognized as a couple even as same-sex marriage laws are finally changing.

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Filmfest DC - LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

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Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 6:30pm - 8:35pm

Location: Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW, Washington D.C. 20004

In 1971, Filipino-American Richard Adams and Australian Tony Sullivan met in Los Angeles and fell in love. Four years later, they became the first couple to receive a same-sex marriage license. Shortly afterward, the Immigration and Naturalization Service knocked back their application for Tony's spousal visa, chiding, "You have failed to establish that a bona fide martial relationship can exist between two faggots." Four decades on the forefront of the struggle for marriage equality, they're still battling to be recognized as a couple even as same-sex marriage laws are finally changing.

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