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<b>Law Program Human Rights Films Series</b>
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A series of films old and new dealing with a range of topics in
human rights is being screened by the Hampshire Law Program during
the Fall 2011 semester. Starting off with the 1961 Hollywood
blockbuster "Judgment at Nuremberg", the series continued with "The
Specialist", a documentary on Nazi extermination bureaucrat Adolf
Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. Please join us for the next
installments. Pizza and drinks will be provided.<br>
All screenings at 7pm.<br>
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October 17, FPH 105: "Calling the Ghosts" (1996, 60 minutes running
time). Two Bosnian women, a lawyer and a judge, are imprisoned in a
Serbian rape camp during the Bosnian war. They survive and search
for justice for women like themselves whose lives have been
devastated by systematic sexual abuse inflicted as part of a
genocidal campaign. Written primarily by the women themselves, this
documentary explores what it means to be raped because of one's
gender and ethnic identity and how victims might begin to think
about what justice, and life after, might look like. In
Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.<br>
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October 24, FPH 101: "Long Night's Journey into Day". Dramatic 2001
documentary about the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, bringing survivors of racist repression under apartheid
face to face with government torturers and killers. Can amnesty in
exchange for full confession by perpetrators achieve justice or
national unity? Running time 94 minutes.<br>
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November 7, in FPH 101: "The Secret in Their Eyes" (El Secreto en
sus Ojos). Argentina, 2009, in Spanish with English subtitles. A
nerve-wracking fictional thriller about the Dirty War (1977-1983)
and its aftermath twenty years later. A government death squad thug
gets away with a brutal political murder...or does he? Running time
120 minutes.<br>
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Flavio Risech
Associate Professor of Law
School of Critical Social Inquiry
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002
413.559.5504 voice
413.559.5620 fax
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:frisech@hampshire.edu">frisech@hampshire.edu</a>
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