[csaa-forum] Screening of documentary "Lessons in Dissent"

[Fran Martin]

Dear All,
You are cordially invited to the free screening of documentary film Lessons in Dissent, on 10 March 2015 (Tuesday), 4.30pm to 6.30pm, at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room (Room 106), The University of Melbourne (on Swanston St). Details of the film and event are included below and in the flyer attached.
 Lessons in Dissent
Schoolboy Joshua Wong (nominated for Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2014) dedicates himself to stopping the introduction of National Education, and a showdown with the government seems inevitable. Microphone in hand, and still in his school uniform, he leads 120,000 protesters into battle.
Meanwhile, former classmate Ma Jai fights against political oppression on the streets and in the courts. Having dropped out of school and dedicated himself to the social movement, he endures the persecution suffered by those not lucky enough to be protected by the media’s glare.
Lessons in Dissent catapults the viewer onto the streets of Hong Kong and into the heart of the action: confronting the viewer with Hong Kong’s oppressive heat, stifling humidity and air thick with dissent.
The film will be introduced by Shiau Ching Wong, who is writing her PhD thesis in the School of Culture and Communication on the anti-National Education movement in Hong Kong. The screening will be followed by a video-linked discussion with Matthew Torne, director and writer of the film, and Avery Ng, activist and Vice-Chairman of the League of Social Democrats, and moderated by Associate Professor Fran Martin.
This event is sponsored by the Screen & Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture & Communication, University of Melbourne, with support from the Research Unit in Public Cultures.
For further information please contact Associate Professor Fran Martin (f.martin at unimelb.edu.au<mailto:f.martin at unimelb.edu.au>) or Shiau Ching Wong (shiauw at student.unimelb.edu.au<mailto:shiauw at student.unimelb.edu.au>).
We look forward to seeing you there!

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Associate Professor Fran Martin
Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Reader in Cultural Studies
Gender Studies Coordinator
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia

+613 8344 5486 (o)
+613 9443 7013 (h)

f.martin at unimelb.edu.au


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