Monday April 26, 2010
screening of: "Persepolis"
Directors: Vincent Parannoud & Marjane Satrapi
Year: 2007
Plot: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.
Time: 20:15 - 22:00
Location: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Year: 2007
Plot: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.
Time: 20:15 - 22:00
Location: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Monday April 19, 2010
Department of History and Humanities Lecture
Title: The Boundaries of Ethics: Religion and Ecology in Context
Speakers: Rosa Maria Calcaterra, Università di Roma Tre
Alessandro Ferrara, Università di Tor Vergata
Time: 18:30
Location: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Speakers: Rosa Maria Calcaterra, Università di Roma Tre
Alessandro Ferrara, Università di Tor Vergata
Time: 18:30
Location: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Monday April 12, 2010
Guarini Institute Film Screening of: "Katyn"
Director: Andrezej Wajda
Year: 2009
Plot: In 1939, the Germans invaded Poland; so do the Soviets, taking more than 10,000 officers prisoner. By the spring, they were executed and buried in the forest of Katyn. Women wait: Ana, her daughter, and her mother-in-law live in hope that Ana's husband Andrej has survived; a general's wife keeps a stiff backbone when the Soviets demand that she accuse the Germans of her husband's death; Agnieszka, a prisoner under the Germans, faces imprisonment in the new post-war Poland for saying her brother died at Soviet hands. Ana's nephew, whose father died at Katyn, is chased by police for defacing a propaganda poster. The corruption of the cover-up poisons the country. Will the truth come out?
Time: 20:00
Location: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Year: 2009
Plot: In 1939, the Germans invaded Poland; so do the Soviets, taking more than 10,000 officers prisoner. By the spring, they were executed and buried in the forest of Katyn. Women wait: Ana, her daughter, and her mother-in-law live in hope that Ana's husband Andrej has survived; a general's wife keeps a stiff backbone when the Soviets demand that she accuse the Germans of her husband's death; Agnieszka, a prisoner under the Germans, faces imprisonment in the new post-war Poland for saying her brother died at Soviet hands. Ana's nephew, whose father died at Katyn, is chased by police for defacing a propaganda poster. The corruption of the cover-up poisons the country. Will the truth come out?
Time: 20:00
Location: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Monday March 29, 2010
screening of: "Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion"
Director: Tom Piozet
Year: 2003
Plot: Filmed during nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal, this film brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world"... from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are chronicled through personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images. TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION is an epic story of courage and compassion.
Time: 20:15
Place: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Year: 2003
Plot: Filmed during nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal, this film brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world"... from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are chronicled through personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images. TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION is an epic story of courage and compassion.
Time: 20:15
Place: Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Monday March 8, 2010
screening of: "The Kite Runner"
Class PL 340 - Political Development in the Third World - offers the screening of "The Kite Runner".
Director: Marc Forster
Year: 2007
Plot:In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kitting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kitting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption.
Time: 8:15 pm
Place: Aula Magna Regina
Director: Marc Forster
Year: 2007
Plot:In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kitting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kitting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption.
Time: 8:15 pm
Place: Aula Magna Regina
Monday March 1, 2010
screening of: "The Serpent and The Rainbow"
Class PL 340 - Political Development in the Third World - offers the screening of "The Serpent and The Rainbow".
Director: Wes Craven
Year: 1988
Plot: Dennis Allan is an scientist who visits Haiti on the strength of a rumour of a drug which renders the recipient totally paralyzed but conscious. The drug's effects often fool doctors, who declare the victims dead. Could this be the origin of the "zombie" legend? Alan embarks on a surprising and often surreal investigation of the turbulent social chaos that is Haiti during the revolution which ousted hated dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Often a pawn in a greater game, Alan must decide what is science, what is superstition, and what is the unknown in a anarchistic society where police corruption and witch-doctory are commonplace.
Time: 8:15 pm
Place: Aula Magna Regina
Director: Wes Craven
Year: 1988
Plot: Dennis Allan is an scientist who visits Haiti on the strength of a rumour of a drug which renders the recipient totally paralyzed but conscious. The drug's effects often fool doctors, who declare the victims dead. Could this be the origin of the "zombie" legend? Alan embarks on a surprising and often surreal investigation of the turbulent social chaos that is Haiti during the revolution which ousted hated dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Often a pawn in a greater game, Alan must decide what is science, what is superstition, and what is the unknown in a anarchistic society where police corruption and witch-doctory are commonplace.
Time: 8:15 pm
Place: Aula Magna Regina
Monday February 22, 2010
"The Intersection of Public Policy and Business"
Please join us for a special Public Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Business Administration:
“The Intersection of Public Policy and Business” by Len Cali, Senior Vice President of AT&T, (Wireless and Intl. External Affairs).
Time: 6 pm
Place: Aula Magna Regina
“The Intersection of Public Policy and Business” by Len Cali, Senior Vice President of AT&T, (Wireless and Intl. External Affairs).
Time: 6 pm
Place: Aula Magna Regina
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Art from the Artic: The Cultural Response to Climate Change
Brought to you by JCU in collaboration with the British Embassy of Rome, the British Council, and the Cape Farewell Project
Host: John Cabot Official Alumni Network
Type: Education - Lecture
Date: Monday, 19 October 2009
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: John Cabot University, Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Street: Via della Lungara 233
Town/City: Rome, Italy
Type: Education - Lecture
Date: Monday, 19 October 2009
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: John Cabot University, Guarini Campus, Aula Magna Regina
Street: Via della Lungara 233
Town/City: Rome, Italy
