Tinted Lens: Ida
This is a
powerful and beautifully made film and explores modern
european history, the legacy of war, family secrets, remembering and
forgetting, suicide, PTSD, but also key philosophical ideas including
what gives life meaning, the choices we make and what is a good life.
The event is friday
the 5th of june, with the screening starting at 6pm, followed by the panel
discussion and debate.
Panel
Professor Hanna
Diamond, Cardiff School of Modern Languages. Will draw on her work on women in
the second world war and the experiences of occupied europe- and her project
collecting oral histories http://www.fleeinghitler.org
Dr Rachel Hurdley, will draw on her monograph, Home, Materiality, Memory and
Belonging: keeping culture(2013) and the film series Making Wales, Remembering Home, she co-produced with refugees and 'destitute'
asylum seekers, emphasises how homes, memories and identities are precarious,
tenuous processes.
Dr Francesca E.S.
Montemaggi, Lecturer in Religious
Studies
http://francescamontemaggi.wordpress.com. Will draw on her research on new monastic
communities and ethics to explore the personal/individual side of faith and the
attraction of monasticism.
