Life of the Mind Events
Throughout the fall semester, a number of events will be scheduled that relate to the book and its themes.
Life of the Mind Kick-Off
August 18, 11:30 a.m., Thompson-Boling Arena
Join your fellow first-year classmates at Thompson-Boling Arena to receive an official greeting from Chancellor Jan Simek and to meet UT men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl. UT professor Brian Barber, Director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence, will discuss this year's Life of the Mind book: A Long Way Gone. Lunch will be served immediately after the kick-off.
Intercultural Intersections Film Series: Children and War
All films are screened in the Hodges Library Auditorium at 2:00.
August 24: Ezra (2007)—Story of a boy forced to become a soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war and his rehabilitation.
September 7: Empire of the Sun (1987)—A British boy’s capture and camp confinement after the 1941 Japanese invasion of Shanghai; based on a true story and starring Christian Bale.
September 14: Children of War—The Evacuees (2007)—Documentary on relocation of children in WWII Britain.
September 21: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)— Documentary of the rescue of 10000 Jewish children during WWII.
September 28: Pan’s Labyrinth (2007)—A child’s fantastic response to the unimaginable cruelty she witnesses during the 1944 anti-Franco guerrilla warfare in Spain.
October 5: In Country (1989)—The lasting impact of war on Vietnam veterans and their children; based on a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason and starring Bruce Willis.
October 19: Stop the Traffick (2001)—Short documentary on the effects of thirty years of war on Cambodian children; and
Doubles: Japan and America’s Intercultural Children (1995)—Hour-long documentary on the mixed race children of WWII American soldiers and Japanese women.
October 26: Innocent Voices (2004)—Fictional story of the effect of war on children in 1980s El Salvador, based on a true story.
November 2: The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004)—Documentary on the devastating effect of war on children in Chechnia.
November 9: God Grew Tired of Us (2007)—Documentary on three “Lost Boys” from Sudan who fled civil war in their country and relocated to America.
November 16: Uganda: The War of the Children (2004)—Documentary on the Lord’s Resistance Army in which eight out of ten rebels are under 16 years of age.
November 23: Children in War (1999)—Documentary on the effects of modern warfare and terrorism on children in Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland
Contact
Michael Modarelli
407F Andy Holt Tower
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
(865) 974-9289
E-mail: mmodarel@tennessee.edu
