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The University of Portsmouth to Collaborate With PFS for UK's First National Festival of the Humanities
| Published: 12th November 2014 11:58 |
The University of Portsmouth has been selected to be part of Being Human, the UK's first national festival of the humanities, 15-23 November 2014.
Free public events will be held at over 60 venues across the UK; in universities, museums, galleries, and cultural and community centres at locations across the UK. The Being Human festival was launched at the beginning of the year, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy and the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Funded events will cover topics as diverse as the digital mapping of data on public happiness; public punishment and local memory in the Georgian West Country; the relationship between humour and being human; the contribution of humanities research to modern science; and Punch and Judy's chocolate cornucopia of human knowledge.
The Portsmouth events are led by Dr Deborah Shaw and are a collaboration between the Faculties of Creative and Cultural Industries, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The events are organized around the theme ‘Conflict and Resolution Across Global Cultures', and draw on the academic expertise within the two Faculties. The University is collaborating with the Portsmouth Film Society, which is happy to present the 3 film screenings detailed below and all the screening events are supported by Film Hub South East.
Portsmouth Film Society's chair Aysegul Epengin says : "It is wonderful that Portsmouth Film Society collaborates with the University of Portsmouth for this very special festival. PFS is proud to be part of the festival and our audience will experience films with social debates of great relevance today. It's excellent news that South East Hub, part of the BFI Network Awards, is supporting the festival. "
The festival curator Dr Deborah Shaw says: "We have assembled international experts to complement the screenings of important films. This won't be a very academic event, people will talking a way that everybody will understand"
The festival films follow three central themes: Hunger strikes as a strategy for political protest and their legacy; Algerian identity in a transnational, trans-historical context; and the rise of fascism in Greek. Highlights include
17th November, 6.30 - 10.00 pm: A screening of Hunger (McQueen, 2008), introduced by Graham Spencer (Reader in Politics, Conflict and the Media, University of Portsmouth), and a film reel of high quality images from the Museum of London's Suffragette collections, followed by a panel discussion with experts on the Northern Ireland Conflict and the Suffragettes. Chaired by Dr Steven O'Brien. University of Portsmouth Eldon Building screening theatre, room EW1.10
19th November, 6.30 - 10.00 pm Screening of The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966), and panel discussion, with experts on Algerian history and culture. Eldon Building screening theatre EW1.10.
20th October - 26th November, 9am - 5pm, weekdays A Story of Revolutions, an exhibition by celebrated artists Patrick Altes on display in Eldon Building Space throughout the festival period. The exhibition is FREE to all, and the meet the artists launch events is on 14th November 16.00 in the Eldon Building.
21st November, 7.00 - 10.00 pm Screening of Fascism Inc. including a Q & A with director, Eldon Building screening theatre EW1.11.
For the final event, the Greek director Aris Chatzistefanou is travelling from Greece to screen his film Fascism Inc. on the rise of Golden Dawn and fascism in Greece. This will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Lydia Papadimitriou of John Moores University, Liverpool
The screenings are FREE to all students. The films are being screened by Portsmouth Film Society (PFS) at the University of Portsmouth, Eldon Building (PO1 2DJ). PFS offer memberships and discounts to staff and the general public for attendance at more than one film, visit their website for more information.
http://www.portsmouthfilmsociety.org.uk
For tickets: http://www.portsmouthfilmsociety.org.uk/tickets/
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