Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change History

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Fall 2011 Lecture Series:  Zones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions – Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisis Keynote: Tess Thackara, Director, Survival International (USA) Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Director & Associate Professor, MIT (USA) Monday, September 26 at 7:00 PM, Bartos Theater at MIT, Wiesner Building (E15), Lower… Continue reading Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change History

Cultural Events in Bangalore

The Bangalore-based collective “Maraa” invites you, as a parallel to the “Walls Between People” photo exhibition that opens on September 9th, to a series of three interesting events in Bangalore (India). Movement and Stillness – a theatre workshop on walls, conflict and trust. Please join us for a three hours theatre workshop on the themes… Continue reading Cultural Events in Bangalore

Symposium on Music – Conflict – Transformation

9th and 10th May 2011, SocArts, University of Exeter, UK Call for contributions In the past decade there has been a growing interest in music and social conflict both inside and outside academia. Interdisciplinary research from music sociologists, ethnomusicologists, music psychologists and musicologists has focused on music’s dual use, both as a resource for conflict… Continue reading Symposium on Music – Conflict – Transformation