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Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender
in the Arts & Media
Columbia College Chicago
presents

Gender, Human Rights and Media

Thursday, March 6
5:30pm Reception6:00pm Program

Columbia College ChicagoFilm Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor

FREE and open to the public
ASL services available upon request. Please allow 48 hours advance notice by calling 312.344.8829

In recognition of International Women's Day, the Institute presents the 2nd annual program on gender and media, with this year's focus on human rights. Gender, Human Rights and Media brings together five leading writers, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars whose work ranges from broadcast reporting on Hurricane Katrina and South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to a film on Argentina's state terrorism in the 1970s. Through individual presentations, media clips and discussion, the panelists will engage in personal and scholarly interpretations of the complicated role that media can play in reflecting, influencing, and broadening our understanding of human rights.

Introduction
Jane M. Saks
Executive Director, Institute

Moderator
Laura S. Washington
Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor in Journalism, DePaul University

Panelists
Cheryl Corley
Reporter, National Public Radio

Antjie Krog
Poet, writer and journalist

Silvia Malagrino
Visual artist and filmmaker

Joe Richman
Independent producer, National Public Radio's Radio Diaries

For more information:
312.344.8829
www.colum.edu/institutewomengender

This program is funded by the generous support of the Pritzker Pucker Foundation,
the Founding Donors of the Institute, and Columbia College Chicago.

This program is part of the Critical Encounters: Poverty and Privilege year-long initiative.
www.colum.edu/criticalencounters

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Poetry Reading: Antjie Krog
Tuesday, March 4 / 6:00pm / Free
Columbia College Chicago
Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash, 1st Floor

Institute Visiting Artist Antjie Krog is a poet, writer, journalist and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. She has published several volumes of poetry and two nonfiction books: Country of My Skull on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and A Change of Tongue about the transformation in South Africa after ten years. She has been awarded many prestigious awards for non-fiction, translation and poetry in both Afrikaans and English.

Film Screening: Burnt Oranges with Silvia Malagrino
Wednesday, March 5 / 6:00pm / Free
Columbia College Chicago
Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash, 1st Floor

Winner of the CINE Golden Eagle award and the Aurora Platinum Best of Show, Burnt Oranges is a poetic documentary by Chicago filmmaker Silvia Malagrino that explores the history of political violence in her native Argentina. Malagrino examines the long-term effects and repercussions of Argentina's 1970s state terrorism through a combination of intimate witness narration, interviews, documentary, and recreated footage. The film is a personal and artistic portrayal of a country's struggles to confront its painful past, and a reminder of the ongoing necessity to defend human rights and democratic values. (90 mins)

About the Institute

Ellen Stone Belic
Founder

The Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media established its staffed operations at Columbia College Chicago in March 2005. The first of its kind in the nation, the Institute offers a dynamic and innovative multidisciplinary approach that merges applied arts and cultural production with critical theory and academic research. The Institute's mission is to deepen understanding and appreciation of how issues related to women, gender, creativity and community shape social policy, culture, history and critical theory. Within this framework, the Institute addresses ideas of access, representation, equity, and participation, as well as race and class, using the arts and media as a central means of research, engagement, public education, and advocacy. The Institute offers a wide range of public programs, including exhibitions, performances and panel discussions, and supports new research and creative work through its Fellowship program. Enhancing student learning and contributing to new bodies of knowledge are central to the Institute's purpose. The Institute achieves this through curricular intersections at Columbia College and far-reaching educational collaborations with other cultural, civic and academic organizations based locally, nationally and internationally.

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Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
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