Professor Safia Swimelar’s POL389 class on International Human Rights will be screening several films over the next two months. The first of their film series is “Lives of Others” and will be shown in KOBC 101 (Digital Theater) this upcoming Monday (Oct. 13) at 6:30 p.m. This is a great opportunity to get cultural event credit while learning about human rights.
To get a glimpse of the movie, click on the link to the right of this page.
“Set in 1980s East Berlin, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s debut feature (which earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 2006) provides an exquisitely nuanced portrait of life under the watchful eye of the state police as a high-profile couple is bugged. When a successful playwright and his actress companion become subjects of the Stasi’s secret surveillance program, their friends, family and even those doing the watching find their lives changed too.” – Netflix.com
Students will also discuss issues such as: privacy rights, civil liberties, and the role of artists and dissidents in the protection of human rights.
If you have any questions at all, please contact Katie Meyer (kmeyer3@elon.edu) for more information!
Swimelar’s International Human Rights course (POLS 389) has organized this human rights film series in order to spread awareness at Elon of diverse and global human rights issues and to examine the role of images and film in our understanding of human rights. As part of their course requirements and for educational purposes only, students will briefly present on different aspects of the film and will lead a discussion with the audience.