Queen's Global Summer presents the Sustainable Freedom Lecture Series.

The Sustainable Freedom lecture series brings together scholars from the Faculty of Arts and Science to shed light on intractable global problems and offer pathways for solutions and options on issues of global significance. All lectures are open to the Queen’s community and the public to attend.

Title: Unsettling the Horizon: How De-alienation Can Better our Relationality and Engagement with the Living World

Speaker: Jill Price

Description: Unsettling the Horizon is an interactive lecture that begins by outlining how the horizon, as found within early European and North American landscape paintings, was a formalistic device used as propaganda to entice early European settlement and imperial, industrial expansion.  Specifically investigating her own role as an artist in relation to Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, as outlined within the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Price draws on Karl Marx's concept of alienation and Jane Bennet's visceral descriptions of waste as lively to investigate how cultural producers and programmers can help to unmake images and technologies that reify the colonial gaze and normalize industrial aesthetics.

Please read the full description on the registration page linked below. 

Queen's Global Summer presents The Guerrilla History Film Forum: Struggles for Equality. 

The struggle for equality and freedom has taken many forms globally. One crucial component of this history has been resistance to colonial violence and the legacies of racism. The films in the series engage these histories, make vivid the experiences of colonialism and the complexities of liberation struggle.  These films invite a conversation about the present path toward a future of global equality. The series will culminate with a forum for discussion of the movies with both film studies and history scholars and will air on YouTube and the Guerrilla History podcast: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/. Learn from the films and join the discussion!

Film #3: Z (1969)

Director: Costa-Gavras

Description: The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it. (from IMDB). 

Please register in advance for your free ticket! 

Queen's Global Summer presents The Guerrilla History Film Forum: Struggles for Equality. 

The struggle for equality and freedom has taken many forms globally. One crucial component of this history has been resistance to colonial violence and the legacies of racism. The films in the series engage these histories, make vivid the experiences of colonialism and the complexities of liberation struggle.  These films invite a conversation about the present path toward a future of global equality. The series will culminate with a forum for discussion of the movies with both film studies and history scholars and will air on YouTube and the Guerrilla History podcast: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/. Learn from the films and join the discussion!

Film #1: Wonderous Oblivion (2003)

Director: Paul Morrison

Description: Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has the entire kit but none of the skill. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven. (from IMDB) 

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Queen's Global Summer presents The Glass Ceiling and Other Stories Film Festival.

This film series depicts the many travails and tribulations that women have faced in society and the private sphere, institutionally and individually, at home and the wider world. The series expands the currency of the term “glass ceiling” beyond the sphere of work into other realms of life where women have been subjected to marginalization and subjugation. The quest for a sustainable future must begin with absolute equality and acceptance within humanity. 

Film #3: Masaan (2015)

Director: Neeraj Ghaywan

Description: Along India's Ganges River, four people face prejudice, a strict moral code and a punishing caste system as they confront personal tragedies. (from IMDB)

Please register in advance for your free ticket! 

Queen's Global Summer presents The Glass Ceiling and Other Stories Film Festival. 

This film series depicts the many travails and tribulations that women have faced in society and the private sphere, institutionally and individually, at home and the wider world. The series expands the currency of the term “glass ceiling” beyond the sphere of work into other realms of life where women have been subjected to marginalization and subjugation. The quest for a sustainable future must begin with absolute equality and acceptance within humanity. 

Film #1: Tied in a Knot: Narratives from Bride Seeking Regions of India (2013)

Director: Reena Kukreja

Description: Parts of North India are facing an acute shortage of brides! Years of girl dis-preference is forcing men to travel to far-off poorer regions of India to find wives. Who are these men seeking wives from elsewhere? Are the women trafficked for forced marriage or not? Why cannot these women get married locally? How are they treated by the families and the communities into which they are married? This film provides a unique look into the everyday harsh reality of such brides: the stigmatization, racism, rejection and abuse they face from conjugal families and communities and how they try to resist it. It bares the everyday suffering endured by lonely brides when they find themselves married into totally alien cultures and environments (from IMDB).

Please register in advance for your free ticket!