General

FACING THE PAIN OF WAR

Sunday, 07 November 2004
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Organizer: Veterans Education Project and Amherst College

This panel discussion--led by military veterans and
members of military familes--will focus on the effect of past wars and the
current war in Iraq on military personnel, on their families and on American
society. In addition to first-person stories about the impact of war,
panelists will talk about coping with and healing from war's aftermath. The
event is offered in observance of Veterans Day and in conjunction with the Amherst
College Mead Art Museum exhibit "The Pain of War," which features the works
of internationally-acclaimed artists and photographers.


The panelists for "Facing the Pain of War" will be: Michael Harrington
(Amherst College, 1975), U.S. Army, Vietnam Veteran; The Reverend James
Munroe, Vietnam veteran of the U.S.M.C.; Debra Lucey, sister of Jeffery
Lucey (3/16/81-6/22/04), U.S.M.C. Reserves, Iraq veteran; Jessica Mills,
daughter of a Vietnam veteran diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder;
Dr. Claudia Ciano-Boyce, Professor of Psychology, Westfield State College.
The Moderator will be Stephen Sossaman, Vietnam veteran, Professor of
English, Westfield State College.

here is the full events claendar:

EVENTS: The Pain of War

Exhibition Opening and Reception
Thursday, October 28: 4:30 p.m.
With recognition of the Amherst College faculty who contributed written
responses to works in exhibition. This collection, entitled In Response to
The Pain of War, will be available in the gallery throughout the course of
the Exhibition.
Mead Art Museum

Special lectures
Thursday, November 4: 7:00 p.m.
Kim Phuc, Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO.
The subject of one of the most memorable photographs of the Vietnam War,
which depicts Kim Phuc as a child fleeing from her village with burns from a
napalm attack.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion. Lecture supported by Willis Wood
Fund Stirn Auditorium

Tuesday, November 9: 8:00 p.m.
Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Amherst College Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World: "Americans
as Survivors-Vietnam and Iraq"
Stirn Auditorium

Gallery Talks, Mead Art Museum
Wednesday, November 10: Noon
Carol Solomon Kiefer, Curator of European Art, "The Pain of War"

Friday, November 12: 11:00 a.m.
Carol Solomon Kiefer, Curator of European Art, and Erin Sullivan, Graduate
Intern, UMass: "The Pain of War" (Homecoming Weekend Events)

Thursday, December 2: 5:00 p.m.
Lance Duerfahrd, Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Amherst
College: "Learning from War Photographs"

Panel Discussions
Sunday, November 7: 7:00 p.m.
Facing The Pain of War
With first person accounts of combat veterans and military family members
about the effect of past wars and the current war in Iraq on military
personnel, their families, and American society. Converse Hall (Red Room)

Thursday, November 11: 4:30 p.m.
On The Pain of War.
Panel: Amherst College Professors Robert Bezucha (History), Lawrence Douglas
(LJST), Heidi Gilpin (German), Margaret Hunt (History). Moderated by Carol
Solomon Kiefer, curator of the exhibition.
Stirn Auditorium

Film Screenings
Thursday, October 28 and December 2: 7:00 p.m.
War Photographer, Christian Frei, 2001 (96 min.)
2001 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary. The subject is James
Nachtwey, one of the leading war photographers of our time.
Stirn Auditorium

Thursday, November 18: 7:00 p.m.
The Last Train (Posledny poezd), Alexei A. German, Jr.,
2003 (82 min.) (with English subtitles).
Winner Amnesty International-DOEN Award at International Film Festival
Rotterdam 2004. Powerful debut film with surreal effects, set in the winter
of 1944 on the Russian Front.
Sponsored by the Department of Russian, Amherst College Teaching Gallery,
Mead Art Museum

Thursday, December 9: 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
No Man's Land (Hell on Earth) (Niemandsland), Victor Trivas, 1931 (75 min.)
(with English subtitles).
Five Soldiers from different countries find themselves buried alive in the
trenches of World War I and are forced to get along with one another in this
gripping anti-war film, a little-known masterpiece from the late Weimar
Period.
Sponsored by the Department of German, Amherst College Stirn Auditorium

Related Exhibition
The Way of Sacrifice: Images and Accounts of War in Amherst's Archives and
Special Collections.
Archives and Special Collections, Frost Library, Amherst College, October 28
- December 19, 2004. Exhibition curator, Daria D'Arienzo, Head of Archives
and Special Collections, Amherst College.

*Due to the graphic content of this exhibition, viewer discretion is
advised*

Location:
Converse Hall, Cole Assembly (The Red Room), Amherst
College

Cost: free and open to the public