Film theorist Negar Mottahedeh and journalist Phil Bennett, both 老牛影视 professors, will hold a public Q & A on Tuesday, March 17, following a 7 p.m. screening of 鈥淩osewater鈥 at the Griffith Film Theater.
The directorial debut of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, the film is based on Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari鈥檚 harrowing tale of his imprisonment for 鈥渟pying鈥 while covering street riots over the results of the 2009 Iranian election 鈥 and the international publicity campaign that eventually led to his release.
Bennett is director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy and the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy. He was the managing editor of The Washington Post between 2005-2009, managing editor of FRONTLINE from 2011-2013, and has been an editor of international and national security coverage and a foreign correspondent.
Mottahedeh is associate professor of literature and women鈥檚 studies. In her class on social media and social movements, how the mass uprising following the 2009 Iranian election, and subsequent government crackdown, became 鈥渢he first popular and unremitting revolt to be reported minute by minute by citizen journalists on social media鈥 and 鈥渕ade the Iranian uprising for justice and civil liberties palpable around the globe.鈥 Her new book 鈥#iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online life鈥 (Stanford University Press), about this social media mobilization, will be published this spring.
The free, public is sponsored by the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC), the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and ISLAMiCommentary.
Paid parking is available at the Bryan Center.