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SUMMARY:“My West Side Story Story”: A Conversation with Professor Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz via New Canaan Library Webinar
DESCRIPTION:With a renewed excitement surrounding the beloved and classic West Side Story\, New Canaan Library is pleased to welcome renowned West Side Story scholar Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz\, who will discuss his trajectory and connection with the acclaimed film and its history – from his childhood in Puerto Rico to his best-selling book. The live webinar will take place on Tuesday\, January 18 AT 7 PM EST; register at newcanaanlibrary.org for Zoom sign in. \nDetailing his meticulous research\, writing process\, historical and theoretical findings\, and his involvement with the Steven Spielberg remake\, Acevedo-Muñoz offers a perspective that is both personal and academic. Acevedo-Muñoz puts the film and its content—controversial among Puerto Rican academic circles—in a new light\, offering fresh perspectives on a piece of American popular culture we all think we know. \nErnesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz (B.A. University of Puerto Rico\, M.A.\, Ph.D. University of Iowa) is Professor of Cinema Studies and Chair of the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. He is a film historian whose works and publications have ranged from the cinemas of Spain and Latin America to Hollywood film genres\, to the\nworks of directors Luis Buñuel\, Pedro Almodóvar\, Alfred Hitchcock\, and Stanley Kubrick. He is the author of the books Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema (University of California Press)\, Pedro Almodóvar (British Film Institute)\, and West Side Story as Cinema: The Making and Impact of an American Masterpiece (University Press of Kansas). Born\, raised\, and educated in Puerto Rico\, his work on West Side Story has been recognized with appearances and interviews on NPR’s “The Takeaway\,” NBC Latino\, and other national and regional media outlets. He is a member of the “Community Advisory Board” for Steven Spielberg’s “reimagined” version of West Side Story\, and as such was a consultant on that film.
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SUMMARY:“Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East” Presented by Professor C. Brad Faught via Webinar from New Canaan Library
DESCRIPTION:New Canaan Library is pleased to present Professor C. Brad Faught\, speaking about a seminal moment in the modern history of the Middle East. Professor Faught will deliver the talk “Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East” on Thursday\, January 20 at 7 PM EST; register at newcanaanlibrary.org for Zoom sign in.\nThe Cairo Conference of 1921 was set into motion by Winston Churchill\, then British Colonial Secretary\, to seek a way in which to build new nations in the Middle East following the First World War and the destruction of the 400-year-old Ottoman Empire. In his lecture\, Professor C. Brad Faught\, University of Toronto\, will examine numerous aspects of this historic conference\, including the reasons behind calling the Conference\, its leading figures (including T.E. Lawrence ‘of Arabia’)\, the decision to create Iraq\, Jordan\, and to reinforce the creation of Palestine-Israel\, and the impacts and aftermath.\nC. Brad Faught is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Global Studies at Tyndale University in Toronto\, as well as Senior Fellow\, Massey College\, University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, he is the author of seven books. His most recent book\, Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East (Yale University Press)\, will be published this summer.
URL:https://livenewcanaan.org/event/cairo-1921-ten-days-that-made-the-middle-east-presented-by-professor-c-brad-faught-via-webinar-from-new-canaan-library/
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SUMMARY:MADE IN CHINA: A Prisoner\, an SOS Letter and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods\, Presented by Author Amelia Pang via Webinar from New Canaan Library
DESCRIPTION:“Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator.” —The New York Times Book Review. New Canaan Library is pleased to present a talk by investigative journalist Amelia Pang\, whose powerful book takes us inside the network of enforced Chinese labor camps\, and the connections to not only American and global markets\, but to the average consumer. The live webinar will be presented on Thursday\, January 27 at 7 PM EST; register at newcanaanlibrary.org for Zoom sign in. \nWhen a young mother opens a box of Halloween decorations purchased from a popular chain store\, she finds a handwritten note: If you occasionally buy this product\, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Rights Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persecution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you. The note\, secretly stashed in the box by Sun Yi\, a political prisoner forced into grueling labor in a detention center\, was the plea for help that would lead award-winning journalist Amelia Pang in pursuit of its origins. \nMade in China is a thoroughly researched expose of the cruel and inhumane conditions that prisoners\, most often illegally incarcerated\, are subjected to as they assemble cheap goods in record time for some of the biggest names in the marketplace.\nAmelia Pang is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications such as Mother Jones and the New Republic. She has covered topics ranging from organic import fraud to the prevalence of sexual violence on Native American reservations. In 2017\, the Los Angeles Press Club awarded her first place in investigative journalism for her undercover reporting on the exploitation of smuggled immigrants who are recruited to work in Chinese restaurants. Amelia grew up in a Mandarin-speaking household in Maryland and holds a BA in literary studies from the New School. This is her first book.
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