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Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008
9:30 am – 12:15 pm
Richmond Salon II
Offered by VCU Libraries, Media and Reserve Services
9:15 – 10:45 am
Edward Said On Orientalism 40 min. 2002
Influential Middle East scholar argues that Western understanding of Arabs is distorted
and that the legacy of difference and mistrust must be overcome for humanity’s future.
Empty Oceans: Global Competition for Scarce Resources 31 min. 2004
Depleting fish stocks and growing tensions over ocean resources are having consequences
hemispheres away: Japan depends on Morocco; European fleets deplete the coast of Senegal;
and Spain is in conflict with Canada. What are the solutions to the industrialized consumption
of the world’s ocean resources and the environmental and political fallout?
Transition Possible 11 min. 2006
A European tourist arrives in Shanghai. German animator/filmmaker Susanne Horizon Franzei shows
the tourists surprising process of overcoming cultural and language differences, without words.
10:45 – 12:15 pm
Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining 85 min. 2006
In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, in northern Peru, learned that the government had secretly
granted strip gold mining concession to Manhattan Minerals. Follow their 5 year fight to protect
their farms, environment, and community.
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